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05-24-2006, 08:16 PM
<p> </p><p><font size="2">I live in Connecticut and saw on the local news tonight that the state's high school athletic commitee will adopt a "score management" policy which will prevent any high school team from winning by more than 50 points. If a footbal coach runs up the score, they might be suspended. The new rule will allow the game clock to run continously until the game is over.</font></p><p><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2006/05/24/connecticut_group_flags_high_school_routs/" target="_blank" title="http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2006/05/24/connecticut_group_flags_high_school_routs/">http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2006/05/24/connecticut_group_flags_high_school_routs/ </a></p><h1 class="mainHead">Connecticut group flags high school routs</h1>
<p class="byline">By Donna Tommelleo, AP Sports Writer | <span style="white-space: nowrap;">May 24, 2006</span></p>
<p>HARTFORD, Conn. --Any Connecticut high school football coach who runs up the score in a game now runs the risk of being suspended.</p>
<p>The football committee of the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic
Conference, the state board that governs high school sports, has
adopted a "score management" policy to keep teams from winning by more
than 50 points.</p>
<p>The rout is considered an unsportsmanlike infraction and, beginning
this fall, the head coach of the offending team will be disqualified
from coaching the next game, said Tony Mosa, assistant executive
director of the Cheshire-based CIAC.</p>
<p>"We were concerned with any coach running up the game. There's no
need for it," Mosa said Wednesday. "This is something that we really
have been discussing for the last couple of years. There were a number
of games that were played where the difference of scores were 60 points
or more. It's not focused on any one particular person."</p>
<p>Still, some around the state have dubbed it the "Jack Cochran rule," after the New London coach of the same name.</p>
<p>During halftime of New London's 60-0 rout of Tourtelotte/Ellis Tech
last season, opposing coach Tim Panteleakos was arrested on breach of
peace charges. With his team sitting on a huge lead, Cochran called a
timeout just before the half, and that apparently riled Panteleakos.</p>
<p>He allegedly hit a New London security officer and tried to hit a New London assistant coach.</p>
<p>Cochran's teams logged four wins of more than 50 points last year.</p>
<p>"It's basically the Jack (Cochran) rule," Hyde Leadership-New Haven
football coach John Acquavita told the New Haven Register. "For one
guy, you're putting the stress on the entire state. It's the most
asinine, insane thing I've ever heard of in my life."</p>
<p>Leo Facchini, New London's athletic director, called it unfair to single out his coach or the sport of football.</p>
<p>"He's not the only person that's had big scores. Score management is
not only an issue in football. It's an issue in sports across the
board," Facchini said. "There needs to be some remedy."</p>
<p>Facchini said he and Cochran tried to pull in the reins during New
London's 90-0 drubbing of Griswold last season by trying to get both
sides and the timekeeper to agree to run a continuous clock.</p>
<p>"We were told no. As the second half started, I radioed up to the
timekeeper three times to run the clock," Facchini said. "Trying to
defend a 90-to-nothing game is going to make me look like an idiot. We
did try to remedy it."</p>
<p>The CIAC's Mosa said the football committee unanimously approved the
policy last month after "considerable discussion and debate."</p>
<p>The state already has a 15-run mercy rule in softball. If a team is
ahead by at least that much, the game is stopped after five innings.</p>
<p>For football, the committee looked at various options on the issue,
including using the continuous clock us
<p class="byline">By Donna Tommelleo, AP Sports Writer | <span style="white-space: nowrap;">May 24, 2006</span></p>
<p>HARTFORD, Conn. --Any Connecticut high school football coach who runs up the score in a game now runs the risk of being suspended.</p>
<p>The football committee of the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic
Conference, the state board that governs high school sports, has
adopted a "score management" policy to keep teams from winning by more
than 50 points.</p>
<p>The rout is considered an unsportsmanlike infraction and, beginning
this fall, the head coach of the offending team will be disqualified
from coaching the next game, said Tony Mosa, assistant executive
director of the Cheshire-based CIAC.</p>
<p>"We were concerned with any coach running up the game. There's no
need for it," Mosa said Wednesday. "This is something that we really
have been discussing for the last couple of years. There were a number
of games that were played where the difference of scores were 60 points
or more. It's not focused on any one particular person."</p>
<p>Still, some around the state have dubbed it the "Jack Cochran rule," after the New London coach of the same name.</p>
<p>During halftime of New London's 60-0 rout of Tourtelotte/Ellis Tech
last season, opposing coach Tim Panteleakos was arrested on breach of
peace charges. With his team sitting on a huge lead, Cochran called a
timeout just before the half, and that apparently riled Panteleakos.</p>
<p>He allegedly hit a New London security officer and tried to hit a New London assistant coach.</p>
<p>Cochran's teams logged four wins of more than 50 points last year.</p>
<p>"It's basically the Jack (Cochran) rule," Hyde Leadership-New Haven
football coach John Acquavita told the New Haven Register. "For one
guy, you're putting the stress on the entire state. It's the most
asinine, insane thing I've ever heard of in my life."</p>
<p>Leo Facchini, New London's athletic director, called it unfair to single out his coach or the sport of football.</p>
<p>"He's not the only person that's had big scores. Score management is
not only an issue in football. It's an issue in sports across the
board," Facchini said. "There needs to be some remedy."</p>
<p>Facchini said he and Cochran tried to pull in the reins during New
London's 90-0 drubbing of Griswold last season by trying to get both
sides and the timekeeper to agree to run a continuous clock.</p>
<p>"We were told no. As the second half started, I radioed up to the
timekeeper three times to run the clock," Facchini said. "Trying to
defend a 90-to-nothing game is going to make me look like an idiot. We
did try to remedy it."</p>
<p>The CIAC's Mosa said the football committee unanimously approved the
policy last month after "considerable discussion and debate."</p>
<p>The state already has a 15-run mercy rule in softball. If a team is
ahead by at least that much, the game is stopped after five innings.</p>
<p>For football, the committee looked at various options on the issue,
including using the continuous clock us