Girls’ basketball: One coach not happy with the abuse of Archer

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Each game, they get lit up like Times Square. They’ll lose by 30 or 40 points one evening, maybe 50 or 55 the next, and one team even leveled them by 66. This is the lopsided life of the winless Archer Arrows -- play tough, lose big, hope for less abuse the next game.

All this leaves one local coach mystified -- no, stupefied. ‘It makes me wonder,’ he said. ‘Where’s the sportsmanship? What’s the motivation of the coach who is smoking Archer? It’s not gonna get them a better coaching job. It makes no sense.’

The coach -- who asked me not to publish his name -- blames the CIF and athletic directors for not reprimanding or even penalizing coaches who torch the scoreboard on programs like Archer. ‘I think ADs should start paying attention to this [stuff], and the CIF should do something about it,’ he said.

This coach is right. Archer (0-5) is a small school with a fledging team, so why win by 65 when you can win by 35?

And, more importantly, why crush a team when you know you’re also crushing its spirit?

-- Anthony Stitt

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