Recent Comments
As a competitor, I want to play that team. Why would I want to win a championship with full knowledge that the best team isn't playing for it? Maybe my team loses, but I want to play the best team every week and show them that I'm better than them. If you think a team is "too good" then move to Massachusetts and stop keeping score. I'm kind of ashamed of this too because I'm from about 40 minutes from Olney.
ORANGEonlyjerseysEFFECT!
After looking at the articles, I agree with .... whatever the hell your name is.
If Olney is really stacking the lower division teams, the good team will destroy everyone and the bad team will get destroyed by everyone. That's pretty low. And it's adults that are doing it, not the kids who go out on the field just to play.
If and when I have kids, I won't be enrolling them in any leagues that give out awards just for showing up. Assuming there will be leagues out there like that.
Agree with most of what is said above. My opinion on why kids are being taught trying is ok is too many "poor winners" have been raised. Look at the Johnny Football idiot and his antics. Yeah yeah great athlete fun to watch until he goes all look at me! Too many athletes like this over the past decade which filters into little league, pee wee etc and all of a sudden parents don't like winning or losing. Win gracefully and the cycle turns around. I've been a golf professional for 26 years and we advocate winning and trying to win but you have to do BOTH right! Two cent mini rant over!
Yeah we should change 'Orange Effect' to 'Orange Amped'
HOKIE HOOPS WIZ
|
12 years 8 months
# | The High School Bully complaint was bad....this one is ridiculous My understanding is that the teams in the lower division are comprised of the same kids that got blown out in the upper division last year that played so poorly that the league wanted them relegated (and obviously their replacements in the upper division this year are playing just as poorly with their records), so the Olney teams took that guidance and relegated the kids from the previous season who are now winning games in the lower division. If the league wanted it balanced then they should have been more involved with the talent evaluation to determine the teams. If they didn't want to do that, then they shouldn't be coming back after the fact to feed the boohoo crybaby machine by punishing kids for playing the games.
We really are fortunate to have Beamer.
They're not even in the top ten in the ACC. Hell, they're barely top ten in the Coastal
Thanks for the effort on this, great stuff! Let's go!
HOKIE HOOPS WIZ
|
12 years 8 months
# | The High School Bully complaint was bad....this one is ridiculous Thanks for this....gives me a little pickmeup after hearing about the Olney thing on the radio this morning with the Sports Junkies
How about "The Battle for a bottle of moonshine and a can of Skoal"?
I look forward to these stats each and every week. Awesome job!
Vandy
Fighting Kliff Kingsburys
UCLA
Mizzou \_()_/
buckeyes
TREES
I changed the name of the match up for Duke and Kentucky based on your recommendation. Too funny.
I can't believe I missed that.
All of these are awesome...they need to happen now!
Much obliged. Have a leg.
Well the actions here might be justified. There are two brackets divisions in the age ranges. basically good and bad. What they're suggesting is that Olney is putting all their good players in the "bad" division to over match everyone and the not so good players are in the "good" division. This is evidenced by their team in the "good" division being winless and the team in the "bad" division being undefeated.
Couple that with the fact it's happening in BOTH age brackets, there is some pretty good evidence that they might be stacking the lower divisions with all the good players. I really wish the media would stop using misleading headlines. They make it seem like it's a team from one community that is undefeated and they aren't allowed to play when there is actually some sketchy business going on. The title should be:
"Lower division Olney team excluded from playoffs for possible team stacking"
"I just don't think we can milk anything else out of these buns."
ftfy
Lobbed that one up and you nailed it!
I just don't think we can milk anything else out of these puns.
On second thought I think I still have a pinch of them left.
Flour.
Then they get to play ND, cause, you know, they set their own schedule and rules.
This is one of the biggest challenges I see in raising my kids. We have a society that is very rapidly moving away from the founding principles that made this country great and is trying to tell all these kids that there is no winning or losing and that just trying is great. What happens to these kids when they get their first bad boss or meet their first challenge in life? In life there are plenty of loses and plenty of wins and greatness and success are born out of both. It scares me to think that me advocating that for my kids will soon put me in the minority because I believe there SHOULD BE a bigger trophy for the winning team and sometimes the other team is just significantly better than yours and you have to learn how to improve yourself and deal with it.
I fear for this country if this becomes the norm as these kids become the future leaders and have been taught their whole lives that everybody wins and that we if it gets tough you just quit.
(steps off soapbox)
ahh crap I forgot about them...
yea, round robin or 4 team cage battle royal in one game.
I've always been proud to say we have a class-act coach like Beamer. Could you imagine if we had to put up with the likes of a Kiffin or Leach, or an obnoxious "ole, ball coach" like Spurrier?