Friday, January 23, 2009

Regret Sometimes Rings a Little Hollow

A Texas high school girls basketball team on the winning end of a 100-0 game has a case of blowout remorse.

Now officials from The Covenant School say they are trying to do the right thing by seeking a forfeit and apologizing for the margin of victory.

http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=903780

Okay - here's probably what happened. The girls were enjoying destroying their opponent, so much so that they had absolutely no qualms during the game of dropping 100 points on them.

AFTER the game, the outrage about what they had done made the coach and players feel uncomfortable... "Hey, we'd better apologize about this so these people criticizing us will think we're sorry we did it."

They could have stopped at any point in that game and taken it easy... to feel sorry afterwards just sounds bogus to me.

On the other hand, clearly that other team did not belong on the same court, and whoever scheduled the two, made a mistake.

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