Wow!

 

First, As far as Ricky Buckler went this year in football, he had 30 carries in the Dayton game. Which if anyone would have read the papers this was roughly his average for carries in a game, even if it was a blowout or a close game. By the way he only carried the ball during the first series of the 2nd half. Also, Sullivan had only 8 carries in the Dayton game. Now, maybe in the Dayton rushing attack that is classified as doing all you can, but in a quality rushing attack and a quality coaching strategy that is called "mixing it up".

 

Second, I know for a fact that the Bellevue players did not walk through the Dayton warm-ups. The players carried their stuff to the sideline and then went to the locker room (which is built like a holding cell). Plus, if Dayton's field wasn't such a crap hole and actually had room for people to move around in this would never be an issue. Plus, the "leaking" that Eckstein and his player supposedly did, was again because that locker room is built like a holding cell and trust me that "leakage" is definitely an upgrade to that facility.

 

Now, back to the basketball game. Obviously if you were there and had any basketball knowledge, the Bellevue player fouled to get the clock to stop as they were only down about 5 points. This foul was in no way, a waylay. If so, then an intentional and/or flagrant foul would have been called right away.

 

I'm not on here to talk football, but this statement about the foul at the JV game is absolutely false. I explained EXACTLY what happened in an earlier post and believe me, I had a much better seat than you did. If you truly believe what you wrote, then you are either out of touch with reality or you were not at the game.

I'm not on here to talk football, but this statement about the foul at the JV game is absolutely false. I explained EXACTLY what happened in an earlier post and believe me, I had a much better seat than you did. If you truly believe what you wrote, then you are either out of touch with reality or you were not at the game.

 

Devil4LIfe33 if indeed you told it like it was then why haven't you addressed the fact that Diltz had to physically pick a second kid that came off the bench up and remove him from the court.

 

Gallopin Ghost is right though:

 

Dayton has some very nice people who I'm proud to call my friends.

 

PS: I still like to beat them when possible.

Devil4LIfe33 if indeed you told it like it was then why haven't you addressed the fact that Diltz had to physically pick a second kid that came off the bench up and remove him from the court.

 

Gallopin Ghost is right though:

 

Dayton has some very nice people who I'm proud to call my friends.

 

PS: I still like to beat them when possible.

 

I did not see Dilts restrain any additional players, but I do not doubt that it happened. When the whole ruckus went down I was busy making sure no one else got involved either. I really don't see why anyone would consider Dilts doing that a bad thing, it was a hostile environment and he was protecting his players. More importantly, he had control of his guys so that nothing escalated. You can preach at a player to hold their temper, but when something happens like it did at the end of the JV game you can't just sit around and expect the players not to try and protect their friend and teammate. I don't blame the players for being upest (i don't condone it either), but I commend Coach Dilts for acting fast so that this didn't get out of hand.

 

I feel the same way about plenty of Bellevue people and I am proud to call them friends and I know that Bellevue also has some quality kids on their basketball team. It is unfortunate when a situation like this takes place, but all we can do is reflect on it and try to learn how to avoid it the next game.

 

And yes, us Dayton people enjoy giving Bellevue a good whooping in anything we can also. Can't wait for round 2 (no pun intended)

As for the comment about playing a football player in the second half. I guess a little sports lesson is in order. In football once the opposing team scores a certain amount of points (45) the mercy rule goes into effect. This makes the game go faster by continuously running the clock, thus limiting the amount a team gets beat by.In basketball when a team continues to press another team that they are clearly over matching this creates turnovers and tends to stop the clock thus slowing the game down. This also allows the team doing the pressing to score more points thus the margin of victory is greater.After the lesson can you explain how you equate the two? The one is an attempt to speed the game up by utilizing a running clock. Thus limiting the number of opportunities Bellevue had to score. Because if they wanted to Bellevue would have scored 100 with Buckler going over 500 yards. The other an attempt to score as many points possible and humiliate your opponent.

 

Classy?:ohbrother:

 

Classy or not can be debated, but as I explained my stance on this in an earlier post, I believe that it is necessary for growth. I would expect any other team's reserve players to play with the same intensity that their starters or core players play with when they are in the game. This whole issue can be debated from here to eternity with no clear cut answer, if the "mercy rule" were a basketball rule then maybe things would be different, but I can assure you this has not been the first game played like this nor will it be the last. I'm not one to make excuses, so if the shoe were on the other foot I would be telling the Dayton guys that if they don't want to be beat so bad that they better improve and be able to stop someone. Or as I said earlier, either finish or be finshed. Good, bad, or otherwise that is my opinion.