‘It was a classless move,’ Morningside
coach says of Inglewood scoring 106 points
Los Angeles Times,
by
Eric Sondheimer
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
10/31/2021 1:08:08 PM
Inglewood Morningside football coach Brian Collins did not have kind words for the Inglewood High coaching staff on Saturday morning when discussing his team’s 106-0 loss to the Sentinels in a game that saw Inglewood quarterback Justyn Martin throw 13 touchdowns passes, including a two-point conversion pass with a 104-0 lead.
“It was a classless move,” said Collins, a first-year head coach at Morningside. (snip)
Collins said he was proud of his players for not quitting. He said a running clock did not start until the second quarter despite attempts to switch to a running clock earlier. Inglewood led 59-0 after the first quarter.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Californian 10/31/2021 1:26:38 PM (No. 962669)
It's high school. Racking up 106-0 was unnecessary. It's "unsportsmanlike" and intentionally mean. These are still kids and they would have lost all the same at 40-0. No need to rub it in.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Moritz55 10/31/2021 1:29:35 PM (No. 962675)
I wonder how many of the Inglewood kids still didn’t get to play much.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
hershey 10/31/2021 1:37:46 PM (No. 962687)
Did they all get participation trophies??? Just asking for a friend...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 10/31/2021 2:02:10 PM (No. 962713)
Awe, get over it. Doesn't make any difference.
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Sounds like the real problem is with your Athletic Director for scheduling the game in the first place. Your teams shouldn't have even been on the same field to begin with, coach.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Birddog 10/31/2021 2:48:14 PM (No. 962753)
Wanna bet there was some trash talking from the losers BEFORE the game??
Take a look at the numbers Ohio State has been hanging on it's opponents over the last month or so.
That said...once you get 50 up? Time to let the bench play.
If you hit 100up? suit up the cheerleaders and the band, send them in..
A year or two ago a Canadian soccer league said that "any team that gets more than three un-answered goals ...forfeits" Sportsmanship.
First game under new rules? a team kicked three into their own goal..other team had to forfeit..
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/31/2021 3:16:09 PM (No. 962773)
Considering Inglewood, these would probably be predominately black teams. A read of the article reveals many of the players have already committed to colleges.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/31/2021 3:21:46 PM (No. 962776)
Profile for Morningside High (751 students)…I was wrong…mostly Hispanic.
https://www.publicschoolreview.com/morningside-high-school-profile
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/31/2021 3:25:56 PM (No. 962777)
I’ll be darned. Here’s Inglewood High’s profile. Not any better. And also mostly Hispanic. I had read that over time the Hispanics had taken over many South Los Angeles neighborhoods (from the blacks). These two schools show that.
https://www.publicschoolreview.com/morningside-high-school-profile
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/31/2021 3:28:45 PM (No. 962780)
Well, I messed up. Here is Inglewood High’s profile:
https://www.publicschoolreview.com/inglewood-high-school-profile
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
red1066 10/31/2021 3:44:30 PM (No. 962790)
Game should have been called after the first quarter. 59 to 0 after the first? Was there another team on the field? How do you score that many points in just one quarter? The winning team must have sent in the cheer leaders for the rest of the game to end up with only scoring 106 points. This is also on the losing team's coach. If your team is so bad that they allowed 59 points in just one quarter, it's time to call it a day and move on. One doesn't build character by being pounded into the ground and humiliated. It does just the opposite.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 10/31/2021 3:54:08 PM (No. 962801)
Did the losers at least get a participation trophy to make them feeeeeel better?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 10/31/2021 4:41:35 PM (No. 962839)
The first string should have been rested at some point. Everyone on the Inglewood should have been able to get game time, if not it was wrong.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
maryann4629 10/31/2021 5:39:23 PM (No. 962868)
The most important reason to even have high school sports is to teach character, including sportsmanship. The kids on the winning side of such a lopsided score learned nothing about sportsmanship. The kids will get their humbling experience sooner or later, but the coaches should be disciplined by the conference ASAP.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MDConservative 10/31/2021 5:46:29 PM (No. 962877)
Like #1, I say this is beyond the pale of anything labeled "sportsmanship." I'm sure many posting here have been team coaches of young men and women, and occasionally been confronted by a mismatch. I have. I've been forced by rules to play so many innings, for example, before the game can be called. I'll take the opponents outs, but I'm not running up the score on anyone.
Not every school can put much of a team on the field. I suspect this was a conference game. And if a non-conference contest arranged by the athletic directors, it was even worse. Was the better team looking for a patsy opponent to pad their record for play-off seeding? There's a matter of self-respect involved here, too. Kick 'em while they're down and defenseless...that's what real sports(wo)men do. One of those values every parent wants taught his kid.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MickTurn 10/31/2021 7:56:11 PM (No. 962967)
This is when the losing team attacks the line with all players, trashes the quarterback then heads to the sidelines to 'take care of' the opposing coach...it's football, right...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 10/31/2021 9:18:46 PM (No. 963026)
Winning big is unsportsmanlike? And we wonder why we keep losing wars.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
nerdowell 10/31/2021 9:22:20 PM (No. 963028)
With that much of a discrepancy in the score you'd also expect to see physical injuries, as well as moral ones. The coach should have forfeited the game.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 11/1/2021 1:45:48 PM (No. 963647)
Back in 1968 the University of Houston ran up the score on my alma mater (Tulsa) 100-6 after scoring 76 unanswered points in the second half. Most of the Tulsa players had the flu. Country singer Larry Gatlin was a WR for Houston and TV's Dr. Phil was a LB for Tulsa.
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After getting over his tantrum, Collins said he is using this score as motivation for his Morningside team.