Slightly OT - Girls HS team booted for trying to avoid Dangerfield's team in playoffs

[sarals24]

Crazy.

LINK

 

[UcMiami]

Wow! That is really pathetic and congrats to their league for hitting both teams hard. (And for the administrator who stepped in and made the coach play - too little too late but at least someone showed integrity.)

 

[Intpseeker]

How proud those two teams must be.

 

[j66kicker]

They were trying to avoid the "Danger Zone"

 

[Farney]

Really stinks for the kids though. I'll operate under the assumption they were doing as told so they really got hurt by a couple of knucklehead coaches.

 

[jennyo70]

I think it is crappy to teach kids this so young. However, some would argue the Phoenix Mercury did something very similar to get Griner. Not much difference there, IMHO. I understand they are losing a game to avoid a team, however, Mercury tanked a whole season to get the #1 draft pick.

 

[Vowelguy]

It's like a bad episode of an 80s sitcom.

 

[sawxfan23]

It's pathetic to try something like this but you would think that they might have considered "throwing the game" a little more tactfully. I mean something as blatant as shooting at the wrong basket and calling your own 3 second violations is absolutely absurd.

 

[Oldbones]

Sounds like a typical evening for the New York Knicks.

 

[hoophuskee]

I think it is crappy to teach kids this so young. However, some would argue the Phoenix Mercury did something very similar to get Griner. Not much difference there, IMHO. I understand they are losing a game to avoid a team, however, Mercury tanked a whole season to get the #1 draft pick.

IMO they'd be wrong to use that analogy. Phoenix tanking is business. The strategy of tanking is a business strategy. H/S kids shouldn't be learning how to tank. ANd from what I read above it looks like their teachers were pretty pathetic showing the kids how to do it.

 

[Oldbones]

IMO they'd be wrong to use that analogy. Phoenix tanking is business. The strategy of tanking is a business strategy. H/S kids shouldn't be learning how to tank. ANd from what I read above it looks like their teachers were pretty pathetic showing the kids how to do it.

So the tanking wasn't personal?

 

[Sonny44]

I think it is crappy to teach kids this so young. However, some would argue the Phoenix Mercury did something very similar to get Griner. Not much difference there, IMHO. I understand they are losing a game to avoid a team, however, Mercury tanked a whole season to get the #1 draft pick.

I really don't think integrity is expected on the professional {$} level anymore [if it ever was].

 

[meyers7]

Well at least they won't have to face Blackman now.

 

[stamfordhusky]

I am sure Meyers remembers a few of the times this has happened in various international soccer tournaments. One was the 1994 Caribbean Cup, where a game ended in bizarre fashion as described by Wikipedia:


Grenada went into the match with a superior goal difference, meaning that Barbados needed to win by two goals to progress to the finals. The trouble was caused by two things. First, unlike most group stages in football competitions, the organizers had deemed that all games must have a winner. All games drawn over 90 minutes would go to sudden death extra time. Secondly and most importantly, there was an unusual rule which stated that in the event of a game going to sudden death extra time the goal would count double, meaning that the winner would be awarded a two goal victory.

Barbados was leading 2-0 until the 83rd minute, when Grenada scored, making it 2-1. Approaching the dying moments, the Barbadians realized they had little chance of scoring past Grenada's mass defense in the time available, so they deliberately scored an own goal to tie the game at 2-2. This would send the game into extra time and give them another half hour to break down the defense. The Grenadians realized what was happening and attempted to score an own goal as well, which would put Barbados back in front by one goal and would eliminate Barbados from the competition.

However, the Barbados players started defending their opposition's goal to prevent them from doing this, and during the game's last five minutes, the fans were treated to the incredible sight of Grenada trying to score in either goal while Barbados defended both ends of the pitch. Barbados successfully held off Grenada for the final five minutes, sending the game into extra time. In extra time, Barbados notched the game-winner, and, according to the rules, was awarded a 4-2 victory, which put them through to the next round

 

[DobbsRover2]

More recently in 2012 there was the ugly game in Olympics badminton when a Chinese team tried to throw a match against a South Korean team so they would not have to get the other top Chinese team in the next match, but the Koreans decided they would also throw the match, which made for a travesty and both teams got booted.

 

[j66kicker]

More recently in 2012 there was the ugly game in Olympics badminton when a Chinese team tried to throw a match against a South Korean team so they would not have to get the other top Chinese team in the next match, but the Koreans decided they would also throw the match, which made for a travesty and both teams got booted.

I think the Chinese and Koreans complained that throwing games was a regularly accepted badminton practice (tournaments normally not single elimination), just not recognized by the Olympics

 

[CTyankee]

I am sure Meyers remembers a few of the times this has happened in various international soccer tournaments. One was the 1994 Caribbean Cup, where a game ended in bizarre fashion as described by Wikipedia:


Grenada went into the match with a superior goal difference, meaning that Barbados needed to win by two goals to progress to the finals. The trouble was caused by two things. First, unlike most group stages in football competitions, the organizers had deemed that all games must have a winner. All games drawn over 90 minutes would go to sudden death extra time. Secondly and most importantly, there was an unusual rule which stated that in the event of a game going to sudden death extra time the goal would count double, meaning that the winner would be awarded a two goal victory.

Barbados was leading 2-0 until the 83rd minute, when Grenada scored, making it 2-1. Approaching the dying moments, the Barbadians realized they had little chance of scoring past Grenada's mass defense in the time available, so they deliberately scored an own goal to tie the game at 2-2. This would send the game into extra time and give them another half hour to break down the defense. The Grenadians realized what was happening and attempted to score an own goal as well, which would put Barbados back in front by one goal and would eliminate Barbados from the competition.

However, the Barbados players started defending their opposition's goal to prevent them from doing this, and during the game's last five minutes, the fans were treated to the incredible sight of Grenada trying to score in either goal while Barbados defended both ends of the pitch. Barbados successfully held off Grenada for the final five minutes, sending the game into extra time. In extra time, Barbados notched the game-winner, and, according to the rules, was awarded a 4-2 victory, which put them through to the next round

FIFA had made an attempt to prevent this by having the last game in the group play round of the World Cup played at the same time. Unfortunately they did not anticipate the the advent of the cell phone.

 

[meyers7]

FIFA had made an attempt to prevent this by having the last game in the group play round of the World Cup played at the same time. Unfortunately they did not anticipate the the advent of the cell phone.

Actually it can make the games kinda funny. Some teams just lull around for 70 minutes and then realize they have to score a goal. Then the other teams think they've got it made then all of a sudden they have to score again. Back and forth. Back in '12 in the EPL, ManU was waiting on the field for their trophy presentation after their game, and Man City scored 2 goals in ET to take the crown. It was pretty funny.

 

[CTyankee]

Actually it can make the games kinda funny. Some teams just lull around for 70 minutes and then realize they have to score a goal. Then the other teams think they've got it made then all of a sudden they have to score again. Back and forth. Back in '12 in the EPL, ManU was waiting on the field for their trophy presentation after their game, and Man City scored 2 goals in ET to take the crown. It was pretty funny.

Actually there was a lot more at stake on that day in 2012 in addition to the EPL crown with two teams fighting to avoid relegation and two teams trying to qualify for the Champions League... So four games, eight teams, all affecting each others future... A Super Bowl, World series 7th Game and World Cup Final all rolled up into about two hours... The winners and losers went back and forth until ManCity resolved it all in OT.

 

[j66kicker]

Update: The 2 coaches have been suspended, and it will cost them their $8400 coaching stipends for the 2015-16 season.

http://espn.go.com/espnw/news-comme...two-tanking-tennessee-girls-coaches-suspended

 

[AndyCT]

Update: The 2 coaches have been suspended, and it will cost them their $8400 coaching stipends for the 2015-16 season.

http://espn.go.com/espnw/news-comme...two-tanking-tennessee-girls-coaches-suspended

But then, why didn't Geno get suspended back in 1999?



(Because UConn got a really good tournament seeding that year)