Not to defend Grimes, but Dallas Academy never quit at trying to be competitive

By Gregory Moore

The coach whose team beat an opponent 100-0 was fired on Sunday.

Micah Grimes, who was in his fourth season at Dallas Covenant, was fired by the school after Grimes posted his comments about the game on a website he co-founded.

In his post, Grimes said in part "I respectfully disagree with the apology, especially the notion that the Covenant School girls basketball team should feel 'embarrassed' or 'ashamed. We played the game as it was meant to be played and would not intentionally run up the score on any opponent. Although a wide-margin victory is never evidence of compassion, my girls played with honor and integrity and showed respect to Dallas Academy."

Grimes may feel that he was properly leading his team but others think otherwise.

That's a tragedy because in a world where we have now coddled young boys and girls into saying that losing is not a part of life, we have essentially taken the competitive spirit out of their being very early. What is ironic in this whole story is the fact that the athletic director at Dallas Academy didn't see the lopsided game as a loss but as a learning tool.

"My girls never quit," athletic director Jeremey Cevillo said. "They played as hard as they could to the very end. They played with all their hearts at 70-nothing, 80-nothing and 100-nothing. I was really proud of them. That's what I told them after the game."

So should Grimes have lost his job? Probably not but when you are dealing with a private school that is more concerned with a public perception rather than stark reality, what do you expect a head master to do these days, sit on his hands.

But what Dallas Covenant did was not show the life lesson that needed to be learned on their campus. In the midst of them celebrating the score, they failed to realize that it wasn't too long ago that they were on the bottom of the ladder. Four years ago the girls basketball team was 2-19. How many lopsided scores did those seniors endure? How many tears had to be dried up by parents? How many times did Coach Grimes have to console his players of some sort?

What the Dallas Covenant girls failed to learn was humility; even in a win. What Coach Grimes failed to realize is that sometimes you might have to take one on the chin in order for the lesson to be given, taught and learned by the students.

Yet instead of Grimes looking at the big picture, he only looked at himself and that could be the very reason why he was canned on Sunday.

And still nobody seems to care that in all of this, a Dallas Academy team may have actually learned the lesson better than any adults ever could.

How does that phrase go again? Out of the mouth of babes…

TIME FOR JISD TO STOP THINKING ABOUT THE PIGSKIN

If you haven't heard or read by now, the Judson Independent School District is coming under fire because of an internal audit that was supposed to be confidential is now public.

The infamous audit lists several contracting violations and according to several outside reports, this wasn't the first time the school district was caught with its hand in the cookie jar. Too many sources in the construction business say that the practices that are now just coming to light have been a part of how that board operated for young D.W. Rutledge patrolling the sidelines. We're talking at least 30 years ago minimum

Undoubtedly there will be a lot of people wanting Willis Mackey's head on a silver platter but you know what makes this ironic? He was brought in to clean up the school district.

So now it is possible that the fall guy could be the new superintendent.

Yeah it’s the same status quo.

The problem with the district is that they are like the small town in Friday Night Lights. It is football or bust in Converse and that doesn't do the kids any favors.

Let's be honest. When was the last time a Judson Rockets football player made it to a big time college and/or NFL team?

Hard pressed aren't you?

Well if you have a hard time trying to find one who is currently playing.

Not saying that they shouldn't care about their football program but it also time for the school board to run the district like the way a school district should be ran.

President Obama has promised that the three branches be very transparent with the public's money. I think that is a heck of an idea and if any school district wants to rely on the voters next time around, they want to know that the people who they voted for to represen them.

As it stands right now, JISD is tainted and only JISD can fix their problem.

They may have to clean house and if they do, they may want to make sure that the press is present during that time.

This school board has lost public trust and only the school board can regain the public's trust is to start doing things on the up and up; not continue their deceitful practices.