Comments on: Dallas Academy Lose Game 100-0, Cancel Season

By: Aki

Aki — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:16:31 +0000

I think the whole hulla-baloo surrounding Dallas Academy is ridiculous. The girls there are not retarded. They have ADD/ADHD, dyslexia — none of which have any significant impact in sports. Hell, one of the Covenant team players has ADHD. She does fine.

Course, it's all thanks to the media for pulling this out and making it a big deal. A lot of people don't know the whole event — Covenant DID let up, in the 1st half of the 1st quarter, in fact. They DID pull out their starters and put in their 3rd string. Not that there were many - Covenant has only 8 girls on the team. They slowed down. They stopped the full-court press and went 2/3 early on in the game. Dallas Academy is just that bad. How in the world do you not get a single basket in? Should Covenant have handed the ball over and said, please, make a shot, we won't move? Because that's what it seems to take to get Dallas Academy to score.

By: X

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:57:29 +0000

lololololololololol

This has to be the funniest thing I've ever read. 100 - 0. They should quit at life.

By: Dumbo is a d bag

Dumbo is a d bag — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:00:32 +0000

Sound like Covenant beat a team full of retards…nice going coach running the score up on mentally disable Girls…this is reason girl/women basketball is whack

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:38:44 +0000

Its ashame they canceled mid season. I would have atleast like to see them let the girls play out the season. After that if you think your embarassing yourself by fielding an uncompetitive team or doing these girls psyches harm then just start a intermural league. But by stopping mid season i think u do their psyches more harm and are letting them know quittings ok.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:25:01 +0000

I believe Covenant only has 6 or 7 girls on its team, so pulling all the starters isn't an option

Last year's roster:

http://www.maxpreps.com/texas/basketball/covenant%20(dallas)/roster.aspx?schoolid=3aabfe7c-ffea-4733-b7a5-c1dd492e995b&ssid=ef4ed7f9-38ed-41ce-8d40-c14149e6805c&urpath=,local,team

By: X-Factor

X-Factor — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:38:08 +0000

Maybe they shouldn't have scheduled this game in the first place.

By: Rick in Seattle

Rick in Seattle — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:22:45 +0000

It seems to me that the Convenant coach was way too slow to put it into low gear.

If the Dallas Acadamy girls hadn't scored a single point by half-time, Convenant should have benched every one of its starters and had the third quarter played by the bench-warmers. If Dallas can mount a resurgence the starters can easily be re-inserted (if need be), or if Dallas continues to go scoreless by the end of the third quarter, then Covenant could have REALLY put it in low gear for the fourth quarter (no layups, 3/4 speed, etc.).

The school's name, Covenent, leads me to think that this is a private church-based school, so I think the coach needs to do a bit more confessing of his sins.

By: jason

jason — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:13:01 +0000

Boulder Justice High School feels Dallas Academy's pain:

http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/cue-daniel-powter-colorado-hs-team-loses-94-1-21849