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Most Recent Story: Annals of Sportsmanship in Connecticut
Over the past few days, we’ve followed with interest a proposal in Connecticut to penalize high school football coaches whose teams win by more than fifty points. Under the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference’s “score management” proposal, coaches who run up the score beyond a 50-point margin of victory could be suspended from their team’s next game.
The initial wave of news coverage and discussion here at MHT divided among predictable lines and sounded both eerily similar to and as content-free as most politicized debates these days. But after some effort to put the issue in context, it appears that facts underlying the Connecticut proposal are even more interesting and thought-provoking than the CIAC’s well-intentioned – but flawed – response.
When one digs behind the rhetoric, it appears that the CIAC proposal is aimed at one coach, New London’s Jack Cochran, whose teams posted four wins by more than fifty points last year, including a 90-0 pasting of hapless Griswold High. According to the Norwich Bulletin, Cochran has a policy of not replacing his starters until the other team concedes by putting its second-stringers in first. His reaction to the CIAC proposal essentially was to laugh it off and note that... [Read the entire story]
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