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East Troy exposes Big Foot’s weakness
Lake Geneva - 116-40. The East Troy boys basketball team, which is ranked No. 4 in the state in Division 3, put a whooping on Big Foot in Walworth in a Rock Valley Conference regular season tilt. Big Foot wrestling coach Craig Utesch mentioned the basketball game when I asked him about how his team was doing so far at the meet. Utesch said the basketball game was an outrage, insinuating East Troy ran up the score by leaving in its starters and full-court pressing in the fourth quarter.Collins said the Trojans were up by 78 points in the fourth quarter and continued to full-court press.
Also, they played their starters until two minutes left in the game despite taking a 50-point lead at the half. At one point in the third quarter, Collins yelled at East Troy coach Darryl Rayfield and said, “What are you doing?” Collins said fans were stunned and couldn’t believe what they were seeing.“We play a rotation of five or six kids,” Rayfield said. “We are not blessed with depth. At some point, our guys have to play a full game. I need our guys to be tested with fatigue and play a full game at a high pace. I couldn’t hold back. It doesn’t get us where we need to be.”
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And Big Foot’s weakness is apparently basketball. How can Big Foot complain about this without realizing they had it coming? I can’t figure out how losing a hoops game 116-40 is any different at all than losing a football game 40-0. Which is exactly what the Big Foot football team did to East Troy just a few short months ago. And Wissports.net tells me one of Big Foot’s star players scored two TD’s in the 4th quarter. Payback is a bitch, yo. Deal with it. So now there is outrage pouring out from the parents, and even the Big Foot wrestling coach. What the hell does the wrestling coach have to say about a basketball game? Where I come from, the wrestlers don’t venture on to basketball courts and the b-ballers don’t friggin wrestle. We respect each other that way. So in a wrestling meet, you take it easy on weaker opposing teams? I don’t get this wussyness that is surrounding us. Unreal. –CCWriter
As El Pres likes to say…..The pussification of america continues.
From the photo above, it would appear that big foot doesn’t get back on D very well…
If u don’t like getting lit up, then simply play better.
Unfortunately, pussification is running rampant thru the ol’ US of A these days…just the other nite I saw like 3 kids nearly pass out on American idol, from having to stay up til like 2am SINGING?!?!?!
I think that Big Foot should put their Big Foot in their month. Running up the score is part of life. It feels good to win and sucks to lose. Now you know the differents. Work hard and play hard thats the point.
i love when white kids dunk; especially in a game. he will remember that dunk forever.
My Uncle is the coach for East Troy. No joke. Big Foot, if you can’t handle a royal ass kicking…Don’t play basketball. Your coach and team are a bunch wussie!
I hope it doesn’t happen but in a game such as that frustration may take over on the loosing side. Then what? A player or two gets injured and your rotation is down to 5 or4? A risky plan. Good luck ET enjoy the season but think of the high road and the future. After next year there doesn’t appear to be much gas left in the tank.
@ Dell…why should my Uncle and ET take it easy on teams? Did Muhammad Ali take it easy when he was whoopin people? Did the John Wooden UCLA teams take it easy? Hell no! You go all out from the first tip to the final buzzer! This political correctness is crap
Sucessful coaches tell their players to “Act like you have been there before.” Obviosly Coach Rayfield has a lot to learn about success. John Wooden would have NEVER purposely run up the score on an inferior team. There will not be a lot of tears shed for the East Troy basketball team if they fall short of bringing home the gold ball thanks to Coach Rayfield. I hope those young men have parents at home that can explain the difference between giving 100% effort with class and trying to humiliate an inferior opponent to boost your own ego. Mr Rayfield gave the whole community of East Troy a bad reputation. Too Bad!
As the author, I wish I could have witnessed this game. It is too tough for me to understand the nature of what happened here. Pressing in the 4th quarter, if that is true, was probably not a good idea. East Troy is obviously really good and different teams play different styles of ball. I still believe 100% that when you (Bigfoot) whip up on your conference in football (40-0 vs. ET), you probably are going to take a whipping of your own sometime soon. It has become commonplace for HS teams to play full-court press defense in one form or another. Installing a press break would be advised, which leads to easy baskets, thus forcing the other team to forget the press. Needless to say, there are some very well conditioned teams that press very well…
see the girl with her mouth wide open. just sayin… jocks do it better…
Big foot DID NOT run up the score against ET in football. Their 2nd and 3rd string was in half way through the 3rd quarter. That coach is a complete ass, and your his nephew? I’m so honored, you obviously aren’t close to him because he just kept his players in. The East Troy PLAYERS were apologizing for their coach and what he was doing to Big Foot. Be a little more knowledgeable of your topic when you go to argue something!