Youth Football Coach Could Be Fined and Suspended Because His Team is So Good

[The_King]

A Philadelphia youth league coach is waiting to find out if he will be fined or suspended — or both — after his team won by too many points. In that league, you are not allowed to win by more than thirty points to keep from demoralizing the other team. That would be fine if the rule is the game is stopped after it gets to that magic number, but that’s not what happens. You have to keep playing, but you are not allowed to score. You are expected to fall down.

 

One coach saw his team go up by 30 early, and he managed to get his players to intentionally not score. Towards the end of the game, the coach put in all the players that normally get little or no playing time. One five-year-old broke it open, and as he raced down the sideline, his coach ran alongside him and begged him to fall down. Instead, he scored, and now the coach is in hot water.

   

From The Blaze

The Conshohocken Golden Bears, featuring players age 7 and younger in the Keystone Sports League, jumped out to a 30-0 lead over their opponent. Sounds great, right? However, such a dominant performance also creates a difficult situation for the coach, and the players.

League rules stipulate that teams can’t go up by more than 30 points, so that no team gets embarrassed by a score that’s too lopsided. But instead of just ending the game when a team hits the 30-point threshold, the winning team is forced to continue playing while also trying not to score.

Any rule that results in a coach desperately begging a 5-year-old child not to give his best effort on the field of play is missing the point of youth sports.

Regardless, the boy didn’t listen. He scored his touchdown, putting the team up 36-0 and potentially costing his coach a lot of money and a possible two-game suspension.

 

 

 

Fortunately for Williams, he has an influential ally. His brother-in-law is former NFL receiver Torrey Smith, who played for the Philadelphia Eagles, among other teams. Smith was outraged by the situation.

“Today’s story of ‘We are building weak children,'” Smith began on Twitter. “The youth football team in my wife’s hometown had a game today, they won 36-0. They don’t allow you to win by 31 without some type of punishment. The head coach is now suspended for two games and fined $500. Are you kidding me?

 

 

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