((HT: KHOU-TV))
Yates High School in Houston set a state record for scoring 170 points in a game back on Tuesday. The issue at hand is that the team they played only scored 35.
It wasn't like one of those Loyola Marymount games from the '90s...
It was one-sided, beyond one-sided, and now the school and the Houston Independent School District is catching an inordinate amount of hell over it...
Where's the sportsmanship...? Why didn't you call off the dogs and put in your scrubs...??? All that stuff...
"I feel very disrespected right now," Houston-Lee coach Jacques Armant told the Houston Chronicle. "I don't understand why Yates just kept scoring and pressing when they were up so much. These are kids. It isn't good to do that to other young men."
KHOU-TV's Matt Musil talked to the Yates folks...
Yates High's perspective is like this: They're ranked number two in the country. They've scored over 100 points eight times this year, and they want to be national champs. What message are they teaching their kids about winning "their way" if they dial it back...??? The head coach said they're not "scoring on teams out of disrespect."
That's their style...
ABC 13 in Houston was actually at the game... part of the fallout was the fight early in the third quarter with Yates up 102-12...
Christine Dobbyn got scrambled over to the gym on game night...
((HT: KTRK-TV))
Jenny Dial of the Houston Chronicle asked about the mercy rule being in play, but both coaches shook it off on that night...
So, is it bad sportsmanship...??? Or is it just the game...???
Let us know what you think...
Those of us at the HQ think it's somewhere in that gray area in the middle...
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