Quote Originally Posted by JeffHCross View Post
Listen, I'm not talking about situations where Season Showdown said you were running up the score, like when you were up just 14 late in the game. We're all in agreement that was ridiculous. I'm talking about being up 59-17 at the beginning of the 4th quarter, then proceeding to put 24 on your opponent. Is it football? Sure. Is it necessary? No.

I don't agree with Bohica's idea that it should influence your Coach Integrity, but I also wouldn't mind seeing coaches get reputations for taking it easy or running up the score. Different players would be attracted to different styles, after all.
And that's fine and I have no problem w/ that. What I do have a problem w/ is SS "penalizing" me for playing my game - off-line - and telling me I'm a "bad sport" for throwing a 4 yard pass on 3rd and 3. And I also get the feeling from what was said about "Coach Integrity" that we would be "punished" for even getting to 59-17 at the start of the 4th.

Since nobody else has brought it up, I will, but I know that John Jenkins - who coached - would routinely run the score up - hence some of his QB's and their "records" like 716 yards passing and 11 TD passes in a single game. They once won 95-21. I agree that those kind of games are not called for, but I don't play like that and I also don't like being "told" by SS that I'm a bad sport when the score is 28-7 and knowing how the CPU will behave at times, that lead could easily be erased quite quickly.

I also hate - and I mean absolutely detest - being "penalized" for passing the ball when that's what I do. What if I ran the ball all the time? SS would be perfectly fine w/ me running for 600 yards but I get told I'm a bad person for throwing for 400! Makes no sense and they'd better not start giving coaches "bad integrity" for playing their game. I will go on long drives - 16, 17, 20 play drives that cover 90 + yards and take 7:00 + minutes off the clock. And I do it using a very short, quick passing game. Yet that's wrong. But if I ran every time and accumulated the same amount of yards, it would be perfectly fine.

Am I the only who sees the stupidity in that???