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A newspaper story below has caught my attention:
Barry Strassler
Coaches face suspension for wins of 50-plus points
HARTFORD, Conn. -- High school football coaches in Connecticut will have
to be good sports this fall -- or risk a suspension.
The football committee of the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic
Conference, which governs high school sports, is adopting a "score
management" policy that will suspend coaches whose teams win by more than
50 points.
A rout is considered an unsportsmanlike infraction and the coach of the
offending team will be disqualified from coaching the next game, said Tony
Mosa, assistant executive director of the Cheshire, Conn.-based
conference.
"We were concerned with any coach running up the game. There's no need for
it," Mosa said. "This is something that we really have been discussing for
the last couple of years. There were a number of games that were played
where the difference of scores were 60 points or more. It's not focused on
any one particular person."
Some have dubbed it the "Jack Cochran rule," after the New London High
football coach, who logged four wins of more than 50 points last year. In
New London's 60-0 rout of Tourtelotte/Ellis Tech, Cochran enraged the
Tourtelotte bench by calling a timeout just before halftime. Tourtelotte's
coach was arrested on breach of peace charges after police say he struck a
security guard and an assistant New London coach.
Leo Facchini, New London's athletic director, called it unfair to single
out his coach.
Facchini said he and Cochran tried to pull in the reins during New
London's 90-0 drubbing of Griswold last season by trying to get both sides
and the timekeeper to agree to run a continuous clock.
Some states, including Iowa, continuously run the game clock in the second
half if a team has a 35-point lead. The Connecticut committee rejected a
similar proposal because members thought it would unfairly cut into
backups' playing time.
(DeafDigest publisher's comment: I fully agree and support the decision
by the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference)
I cant believe with their idea... Some of football teams recently new program to their high school against 5 times state champs, and all rookies can gain their experience... More than 50 pts will be suspension?? Do you agree with this or not??
Barry Strassler
Coaches face suspension for wins of 50-plus points
HARTFORD, Conn. -- High school football coaches in Connecticut will have
to be good sports this fall -- or risk a suspension.
The football committee of the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic
Conference, which governs high school sports, is adopting a "score
management" policy that will suspend coaches whose teams win by more than
50 points.
A rout is considered an unsportsmanlike infraction and the coach of the
offending team will be disqualified from coaching the next game, said Tony
Mosa, assistant executive director of the Cheshire, Conn.-based
conference.
"We were concerned with any coach running up the game. There's no need for
it," Mosa said. "This is something that we really have been discussing for
the last couple of years. There were a number of games that were played
where the difference of scores were 60 points or more. It's not focused on
any one particular person."
Some have dubbed it the "Jack Cochran rule," after the New London High
football coach, who logged four wins of more than 50 points last year. In
New London's 60-0 rout of Tourtelotte/Ellis Tech, Cochran enraged the
Tourtelotte bench by calling a timeout just before halftime. Tourtelotte's
coach was arrested on breach of peace charges after police say he struck a
security guard and an assistant New London coach.
Leo Facchini, New London's athletic director, called it unfair to single
out his coach.
Facchini said he and Cochran tried to pull in the reins during New
London's 90-0 drubbing of Griswold last season by trying to get both sides
and the timekeeper to agree to run a continuous clock.
Some states, including Iowa, continuously run the game clock in the second
half if a team has a 35-point lead. The Connecticut committee rejected a
similar proposal because members thought it would unfairly cut into
backups' playing time.
(DeafDigest publisher's comment: I fully agree and support the decision
by the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference)
I cant believe with their idea... Some of football teams recently new program to their high school against 5 times state champs, and all rookies can gain their experience... More than 50 pts will be suspension?? Do you agree with this or not??
