High School Football Coaches Cleared of Bullying in 91-0 Win

[Zapp Brannigan]

A North Texas high school football coach has been cleared of bullying allegations made by the parent of a player on a team that lost to the undefeated team 91-0.

The father of a Western Hills High School football player filed an official bullying complaint after Aledo High School defeated the Fort Worth school 91-0 on Friday.

Under state law, Aledo's principal was required investigate the complaint and prepare a report. The complaint was filed with the school district, which the law requires to provide bullying complaint forms on its websites.

The Aledo school district said in a statement Wednesday that it had reviewed the parent's complaint and determined that bullying did not occur. Superintendent Derek Citty said Aledo head coach Tim Buchanan and his coaches "acted in an honorable manner."

"It is abundantly clear that prior to the game being played, Coach Buchanan visited with our opponent’s head coach and discussed a variety of ways to keep the score as low as possible," he said. "This communication continued throughout the contest, with a variety of strategies being used to keep the score under control. Unfortunately, even with these strategies, the score still ended up at a place neither school would have wanted."

Buchanan told NBC DFW on Monday that he started substituting players in the first quarter. He also said the game clock ran continuously starting toward the end of the third quarter.

He said his team did not simply start kneeling the ball because telling his players to not play hard because they're ahead is "against every fundamental coaching strategy that you have."

Buchanan told NBC DFW that he and his fellow coaches did exactly their best to keep the score down.

"In actuality, we probably could have scored a lot more," he said. "We did try to keep it down. I was really fearful that we were going to score 100."

The head coach of Western Hills told NBC DFW on Monday that he not think the Aledo coaching staff bullied his players.

The University Interscholastic League, the governing body for high school sports in Texas, has a mercy rule for six-man football that ends a game when one team gets ahead by 45 points by halftime or later but does not have one for 11-man football. However, the UIL also said coaches can agree to end a game early -- an option Buchanan was not aware of, he told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The UIL follows NCAA rules, but most other states follow guidelines of the National Federation of State High School Associations, said Bob Colgate, the federation's director of sports and sports medicine.

Colgate said many of the federation's 48 member states and the District of Columbia have adopted a mercy rule in 11-man football. He noted that a survey published in February found that 16 states reported using a mercy rule with point margins, which are set by individual states, ranging from 30 points to 50 points.

The undefeated Aledo Bearcats have made a habit of soundly defeating their opponents this season. After seven games, the team is outscoring the opposition 485-47. The Bearcats' average victory margin in four district games is 77 points.

The blowouts are due in part to Aledo's placement in a new district that has not been as strong in football.

In Friday's game, the Bearcats ran just 32 plays but scored on about every third one. Aledo rushed for 391 yards. It scored eight touchdowns on the ground, two each on passes and punt returns, and one on a fumble recovery.

Western Hills had 79 yards rushing and 67 yards passing.

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91-0, brehs. And to add to the embarrassment, a bullying complaint.

 

[BlvdBrawler]

91-0.... Jesus.

 

[sanityovar8ted]

they should have never been charged with bullying in the first place.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

they should have never been charged with bullying in the first place.

The ruling agrees with you.

 

[Clark Wayne]

Why did they even keep playing? I know some places where if the score gets out of hand, they just end the game.

 

[sanityovar8ted]

The ruling agrees with you.

i know the kid whose mother brought the charges is hella embarrassed right now , i would even wanna go to school for a while but he gone hafta tuff it out.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Why did they even keep playing? I know some places where if the score gets out of hand, they just end the game.

They wanted to hit rock bottom has hard as they could so they'd know what it felt like.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

I like teams that dont let up.

The pussification of society is what pisses me off

 

[Killer Instinct]

High School? They're big kids. You can either compete or you can't. At that level, you don't scale back dominance to protect feelings. You either get better, or get embarrassed.

 

[CJ]

That RB was all night.

 

[Flay Mayweather]

91 points? Damn, they scoring basketball numbers

 

[newworldafro]

if they did 2 point conversions, then thats about 11 touchdowns ... ...............

 

[Chill]

Next thing you know in the near future seems like children will be labeled a bully just because they stood up for themselves.

 

[Doin2Much Williams]

they should have never been charged with bullying in the first place.

Don't blame the nurse for giving bad meds to the patient.



The doctor should have stopped as soon he knew continually administering the drug would only make it worser.



.

 

[No_bammer_weed]

I like teams that dont let up.

The pussification of society is what pisses me off

we're not a p*ssy society at all....we're a nation of extreme riches, yet we have millions living on the street, and pretty much everyone outside of hedge fund managers is up to their a$$holes in debt, and edging close to financial ruin, while working their eyeballs out of their socket. We're a greedy, I dont give a fukk about anyone but myself society. This sort of bullsht fits right in to that. After kids are like 5 years old, we train them to become sociopaths and dyckheads.