Now ever since the game happened there has been national media attention about how Covenant was wrong and how they shouldn't have been shooting 3s or playing the full court press. The head of the school even offered to forfeit the game and apologized for the actions of the coaching staff.
Before I get into my opinion it needs to be stated that Dallas Academy is a school that teaches children with learning disabilities such as ADD and dyslexia and that they have roughly 22 girls at their school and only 8 are on the team. So if you were wondering how this team didn't score a point it may now be a bit clearer.
Since the game the coach has been asked to apologize for his actions and has since refused to do so. While everyone is getting all over him and national reporters and journalists are berating him I will do the opposite and will have the guts to do what they all want to do.
Coach Grimes of Covenant I salute you for not apologizing and I agree 100% with your decision to continue to play hard no matter what. What does it teach kids if you tell them to not try their best all of the time and to give up when they have a lead over someone in competition. It teaches them to be weak is what it does.
Let me try and relate this to something more practical than basketball. Let's say for instance that one of these children was attending a university. Said student is doing much much better than the rest of their class and making them all look bad. Would a smart parent say "try not to do so well you're making everyone look bad" or would they encourage their child to be the best they can be at all times.
Our society today tries to act like everyone is sympathetic and compassionate for the feelings of others yet in their own minds they could care less and these reporters and journalists who perpetuate this nonsense are no better. One of these guys at ESPN or SI needs to step up and say "look, its one game in high school and no one got hurt so what's the big deal."
Worthy of note is now all the girls from the losing team are being interviewed on TV and are in magazines and being talked about by people all over North America. They are made out to be heroes while the kids who are actually good at the game are made to be villains. It's a sad day when something like this happens and people over react as if it the most crucial event in our history. Even sadder is that this game got more press than some of the baseball players I mentioned in my previous article. Mike Piazza, the greatest hitting catcher of all time, retires and there is nothing but a high school basketball game has a crazy score and the world stands still.
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