Thinks there’s a BCS
in high school sports
The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference has instituted a rule that any football coach who runs up the score and wins by more than 50 points will be suspended for the next game. The CIAC claims it’s been looking into this rule for the last couple of years but apparently it’s all because of one coach, New London’s Jack Cochran.
During a game when his team was up 60-0, Cochran called a timeout right before the half, ostensibly to get another score in. (This might be the biggest dick move since Buddy Ryan ordered Randall Cunningham to fake a kneel down against the Dallas Cowboys.) That angered the opposing coach so much that he hit a security guard and a New London assistant coach and was arrested. So now, the football mercy rule is known unofficially as the “Jack Cochrane rule”.
Football committee chairman Leroy Williams explained the need for the rule.
Try to explain that to kids. When you get someone down, you don’t have to kick them. The key thing to remember is, it’s about the quality of the game. It’s about teaching kids right from wrong. It’s about the game of life and that’s how we had to look about it.
Actually, if it’s one thing we learned from watching amateur sports like college football and Bob Stoops over the years, it’s that you should always run up the score whenever possible because that’s how you come out a winner!
Links:
[Boston.com]: Connecticut group flags high school routs
