We used to hire out this team to be our homecoming almost every single year that. I used to feel so sorry for them. They would have 1 person in the stands, the bus driver.
I can not wait to see this documentary. Looking forward to seeing the story and hearing about it in a different light.
What are you saying? You would hire a team to be your opponent? That's pretty sad in itself.
shareAhaha. True. Unfortunately, big college teams do the same thing.
shareYeah, we would pay them a few thousand dollars to be our opponent for homecoming. I did not play football nor did i go to very many high school football games.
I agree it is sad exploiting the underprivileged but it is the reality in with we live.
Yea these kind of things happen all the time, although it is rare for high schools to do it, I'm guessing your team wasn't all that good if they had to do it, so it really wokrs out for both teams. They get some money, you guys get a win.
shareActually our high school football team was good. We went to the state championships a few times while i was in high school. We would pay them to come play for our homecoming. I guess our ego was so big that we wanted a sure win.
sharejesus - what's the point of even playing if you're guaranteed a win? - that's pretty pathetic, and childish - wouldn't you rather play someone just as good if not better than you, to show and prove that you really are that good? - as opposed to fooling yourself playing someone of a lower standard
i'd go to one of these games and support the underdogs
I saw this movie tonight and they actually mention that in the film...They'd get hired by several high schools and get beaten. It was how they raised money.
shareAre you kidding me? If you're going to win, why do it? Major colleges do it to small colleges all the time. In Kansas, powerhouse KU plays the smaller Div. II schools...to make them money. It's a nice thing to do. They can go schedule some humdrum team, get beat, and not make a buck, or they can play a powerhouse and get paid.
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Question? Are the underdogs being payed to just play the game as normal or are they being payed specifically to lose the game? I guess the former would be okay. It would give the underdog the opportunity to play against a team that under any other circumstances they would have no chance of doing.
Don't Worry Be Happy.
They are payed to play and try to win. However, the powerhouse teams that do the paying pick an opponent that they KNOW they can beat. Very common. The crappy team usually gets absolutely blasted and realistically have no chance to win. Most homecoming games are these types of games.
Where I played in Kentucky there were 6 classifications. Single A was schools with 500 students or below. 2A was a thousand and so on. 6A being highest class, there football team could have up to 100 or more players. They will play a Single A team that has maybe 25 players or so. The odds are so stacked against the weaker team that they have literally no chance.
Haters gonna hate
This happens at the college and high school level.
In college, most schools have an athletic department who is lucky to break even ever year and most operate in the. Football and/or basketball are generally the only revenue generating sports which have to pay for other sports men play that don't generate revenue and because of title ix, other female sports as well. Nearly every big school in the major conferences, the SEC, ACC, Big10/12, Pac12, etc pay smaller schools, even FCS schools to come to their place and play. These big schools who often profit, pay some of these other schools in the $500K range to travel and play. Sometimes you have HUGE upsets like App St at Michigan awhile back, James Madison over Virginia Tech a couple of years back and just last year GA Southern beat UF without even completing a pass.
This is starting to happen in high school. Teams are paid to come and are likely to lose because they are outmatched, but they aren't paid to lose, they are playing to play, although usually greatly outmatched. Many of these programs don't have any money to run their programs, no booster support, little equipment, usually many volunteers coaching and trying to help and if not for playing a few of these pay for play games a year allowing them to barely scrape by, many would have to shut their programs down completely. So would you rather get paid to play a team much better than you, or shut down your program?
Many of those high school programs in urban areas, have more talent they could play, but those guys would rather be in the streets or can't play ball because they have to spend that time working to try and help support their family. If they got rid of these programs, you better big bigger jails because a high % of those players will be right out on the street with their peers and no opportunities to better themselves.