According to Joseph Giannotti, the county’s official sports historian, no local football team has ever come back from a 35-point deficit at the start of the fourth quarter.People who know Mr. Shaver were surprised to learn about the suspension.
Since it was put in place, the number of blowouts has dropped sharply: There were five in 2017, one last year and four this year. (Connecticut had a similar policy for more than a decade before switching several years ago to one that relies on a running clock.
“They thought it was a mismanaged game, which my opinion is, that isn’t the rule,” Mr. Shaver told Newsday, adding that “the spirit of the rule is to prevent better teams from running up on lesser programs and sportsmanship and dignity and all that stuff.
The football coach Max Edwards was suspended indefinitely. But in a letter “Who said they are experts on sportsmanship?” Mr. Salina wrote in the letter about the committee, adding: “What are you teaching children by saying play fairly but now you are playing too well, don’t play anymore for the rest of the game.
That didn’t happen.”Mr. After Lopsided Win, 61-13, High School Coach Is SuspendedThe final touchdown for the Plainedge Red Devils gave the team its final 48-point margin of victory, ultimately leading to a one-game suspension for the team’s coach. “I have not heard of that kind of deal,” Mr. Howard said of the Nassau County policy.
The team has won state titles the past three years. Max Edwards has been the head football coach for the Miami Northwestern since the 2015 season. A top-ranking St. Louis high school canceled its football season -- and fired its entire coaching staff -- in light of a student-athlete switcheroo on the gridiron. “I don’t want to make it into a bigger deal than it already is,” he said. “The differentials in the scores were excessive,” Mr. McLees said. Blowouts happen everywhere, but in most places, according to Bruce Howard, an official with the National Federation of State High School Associations, the issue is handled on the field by letting the game clock run or by simply stopping play.
A St. Louis high school has cancelled the rest of their football season and fired every coach on staff after a suspended player wore a different number and participated in a game. The head football coach of a Florida high school football program that has produced a number of NFL stars has been suspended for violating restrictions on team activities.
“We love him here,” said Emily Cataldo, who owns Saverio’s Authentic Pizza Napoletana, a short distance from the high school. It was also the trigger point that led to a more surprising result: the winning coach’s suspension.Nassau County has an unusual policy designed to prevent lopsided results in football games: If a team wins a game by more than 42 points, the winning coach must explain to a special committee why such an outsize margin could not be avoided.With that last touchdown, Plainedge pushed the final score to 61-13, putting the team in violation, and subjecting its coach, Robert Shaver, to a one-game suspension. “So I don’t know why they would change that now.”Giovanni Muscedere, 20, of North Massapequa played offensive guard on the Plainedge team in 2016 during his senior year. In 2015, there were 23, and in 2016, there were 18.
After Lopsided Win, 61-13, High School Coach Is Suspended The final touchdown for the Plainedge Red Devils gave the team its final 48-point margin of … The committee that reviewed the matter — a six-member body made up of local school administrators and athletic officials — was unpersuaded by that argument.
When the Plainedge Red Devils extended their rout last week of the South Side Cyclones with a fourth-quarter touchdown, it was a crowning moment for the winner of a big game between unbeaten high school football teams on Long Island. Daisy Gonzalez-Diego, a spokeswoman for the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, said the school was in communication with parents of students who may have practiced during the unauthorized training. Where’s the life lessons?”Matt McLees, the county’s de facto commissioner of high school football, said he was directed by In 2014, he said, there were 26 games where the margin of victory was 40 points or more. “He’s here all the time, he’s very well loved by his students, the student body loves coach. With games ending with scores like 50-6 or 66-3, he added, school officials “felt that took away from the experience of young men playing football.” The new policy was adopted with input from coaches, athletic directors and other administrators, he said. All three scores — 49-7, 42-0, 42-0 — had 42-point margins that kept the Red Devils exactly on the right side of a blowout.