Suspended for being a good coach!!!

thank you shorty
obviously respect for the game comes from the bottom up, and thankfully so
doesnt seem to come from the top around here
and to some of the other posters, at least 12 of my cheerleaders over the years are either signed or are playing at the next level

 

looks like the west charlotte softball program would be a great adopt a high school for uncc. on the offseason it would be a great teaching tool for uncc players to teach what they know to someone else and in turn reaffirms what they know.

 

First...as a former player, I do not see a reason to suspend the coach. At first I did, but it changed after reading this. 55-0 is rediculous, but what can a team of Central's calibur do to prevent that from happening? I would never expect a coach to tell his players to strike out, or get out on purpose. As a player, I wouldn't listen. Like I said, I would rather sit the bench than get out on purpose. The only other option I see available is to take your entire J.V. team out there to play, but from my understanding they were playing a game that day. From what I have heard Central did whatever they could to end the game, but West Charlotte refused. Yes, I do think that 55-0 is terrible, but it's almost inevitable when Central plays West Charlotte. 55-0 isn't competetive, but neither is playing West Charlotte. Hitting the ball and playing the best you can is why you are out on that field, and that's what Central did. I believe that the fault doesn't lie on Central's coach, it lies on either the West Charlotte coach for wanting to continue the game, or it lies on the NCHSAA for not making the mercy rule more strict.


As for my comment on stealing bases early in the game being wrong, it is wrong. When is the last time Central got beat by West Charlotte? Never, maybe? When is the last time West Charlotte won a conference game? Never, maybe? You do know what's going to happen, so the saying "you never know what may happen" is wrong. I know that just as well as anybody else. A team of Central's calibur does not need to be stealing bases on a team like West Charlotte.

 

those cheerleaders you have at the collegiate-level are some excellent softball players too! why havent i seen some of them cheer.....i respect cheerleading too??

 

Another story on this whole tell. From today's observer, and yes I agree with her.

Posted on Sun, May. 01, 2005COMMENTARY

Sherrill's lessons lost in score
Softball coach deserves extension after 55-0 rout, not suspension
JENA JANOVY


Central Cabarrus softball coach Monte Sherrill deserved a contract extension, not a two-game suspension, after his team defeated West Charlotte 55-0 last month.

Not because the win came against West Charlotte -- a fine school with its share of good athletes and strong sports and academic programs.

And not because sports is all about winning -- Sherrill has won five state titles in 15 years, four of those in 14 seasons at Alexander Central. He's in his second season at Central Cabarrus. The Vikings are reigning N.C. 4A champs and headed toward a possible repeat.

Sherrill deserves a contract extension because of what his athletes are learning, about sports and life -- to be committed to excellence, to prepare with vigor, pay attention to detail, maintain discipline and be accountable for their performance.

If you do those things more often than your opponents, you'll likely win more. That's all that's going on under Sherrill at Central Cabarrus.

Oh, but you say, high school sports shouldn't be all about winning. The primary purpose is educational.

C'mon. Let's stop pretending we're above this winning thing. If you're into sports, you're in for the win. Even in high school. Heck, we suspend Sherrill, yet we glorify Independence High and its five straight N.C. football titles? Nobody suggested benching the Independence coaches for winning last season by an average margin of 55-8.

As a former high school, club and youth basketball coach for more than 10 years, I did everything in my power to help my teams win. But I also taught my players to play hard, play together and play with a purpose. No mention of the scoreboard.

They learned you don't go out of your way to humiliate an opponent. But they also figured out pretty quickly it was way more humiliating to lose knowing an opponent was taking it easy on them. To my kids, that was the ultimate show of disrespect.

If you teach athletes to work hard, develop their skills and reach for their potential, they'll learn to win with class and lose with grace, and all the games will be simply the venue upon which they learned sportsmanship.

So let's take another look at that 55-0. It's easy to argue lopsided wins automatically equate to poor sportsmanship. It's easy to criticize 55-0 as a case of running up the score.

But as a coach, you don't want your players to get lost in the scoreboard. You want them to learn not to give up because they're behind. And you want them to know it's not OK to let up just because they're ahead.

Central Cabarrus administrators haven't said why Sherrill was suspended, calling it a personnel matter. If I'm the athletics director at the school, the only personnel matter I'm dealing with is figuring out how to sign Sherrill to a lifetime contract.

I want him on my team.

Jena

Janovy

 

Brilliant article

 

AGREE

BEST ARTICLE YET COVERS ALL THE BASES

 

A great article, thanks worktowin. Now on to the reason behind the article. It sickens me that the Charlotte press builds up "their" schools, Indy, Albermarle, etc, etc, ... No one in Charlotte said a thing when Indy throw a TD up 30 with four minutes to go, but let "little brother" in Cabarrus County make a Charlotte team look bad and it is the end of the world as we know it.

I agree with the article and earlier post, why aren't we talking about what Sherrill has done for the Community instead of this.

 

another great follow-up article....thanks worktowin

no comment on CMS vs the lone cabaruss team.

 

Is isn't a story - it is an opinion piece.

And the writer never mentioned sportsmanship as something being learned.