91-0 game tough on both Teams

[Servonaut]

http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=862709

ESTERO, Fla. - The Estero High football staff gathered in head coach Rich Dombroski's office late Friday, almost in stunned silence.

Earlier that night, Estero lost to Naples High by 13.

Not by 13 points. By 13 touchdowns. That's right: Naples 91, Estero 0.   
 
All-purpose back Greg Pratt helped Naples pile on the points.
The rout fallout has been growing since the game ended.

"Hey," offered Estero defensive line coach Pat Hayes after the one-sided affair, "I didn't even know 91 was a multiple of seven."

With that, the coaches all got a much-needed laugh.

A half-hour away in Naples, Eagles coach Bill Kramer—the man on the winning end—could use one of those.

He looked at the scoreboard late in the game, saw 91-0, and said he felt sick to his stomach. Kramer's team ran only 31 plays and he kept most of his best players on the sideline—for the entire game in some cases. But still Kramer knew what was coming.

Soon after the game ended, his inbox began filling with angry e-mails, some from Estero parents wondering why so many points were necessary, some from Naples parents wondering why their kids didn't play more in an effort to pad their stats.

"There's only one way to describe it," Kramer said. "Just bizarre."

The schools aren't far off in size: Estero has about 1,400 high schoolers, Naples roughly 1,700.

But the pedigree of the football programs couldn't be more different.

Estero is rebuilding from the lowest level, with Dombroski in his first year at the school and having inherited a program that had simply crumbled. Naples is the reigning state Class 3A champion, and a contender to win the title again. Naples has players committed to Division I schools like Ohio State already and a roster filled with talent at every position. Estero has no college prospects and only about 25 healthy or so players remaining on its roster.

"Some of us, most of us, well, all of us were intimidated," said Tyler Eastridge, a free safety who may be exaggerating when he says he weighs a 150 pounds.

Naples led 70-0 at the half; only four of the 1,420 games reported by member schools to the Florida High School Athletic Association this season have seen teams score more than 70 points.

"It was David versus Goliath," Dombroski said, "and David didn't have a stone to throw."

What do you think CCer's ? 

[Texacon]

Don't even get me started on this.  I have had more rounds than I care to remember with the coaches from our area.

KC

[USA4ME]

What can he do?  He only ran 31 plays, it's just the other team was that bad.  It's not like you can ask your players to only play half-speed or something, that's a sure fire way to get someone hurt.

They could probably impliment some type of rule where if you're so far ahead then the game is suspended (I would be opposed to it), but the players on both teams came out to play, and it sounds like the other team could use all the playing time and game experience they could get, even if they were getting stomped in the process.

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[Chris_]

What can he do?  He only ran 31 plays, it's just the other team was that bad.  It's not like you can ask your players to only play half-speed or something, that's a sure fire way to get someone hurt.

They could probably impliment some type of rule where if you're so far ahead then the game is suspended (I would be opposed to it), but the players on both teams came out to play, and it sounds like the other team could use all the playing time and game experience they could get, even if they were getting stomped in the process.

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Isn't there some kind of mercy rule like they have in Little League?

[Rebel]

Could have been worse.




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