In what was labeled “a classless move” by Inglewood Morningside football coach Brian Collins, the Inglewood High coaching staff opted to have quarterback Justyn Martin throw for a two-point conversion while the team was leading 104-0 on Friday night during an incredibly lopsided high school football game in California.
Much to the chagrin of Collins and his overmatched team, Martin, who had 13 touchdown passes in the blowout win and is committed to play for UCLA next year, converted to give Inglewood High its final 106-point margin of victory.
Considering that Inglewood head coach Mil’Von James, who was fired from a previous job in 2016 for using ineligible players, resisted allowing the refs to switch to a running clock despite getting out to a 59-0 lead in the first quarter, Martin going for two shouldn’t really have been all that much of a surprise.
“The refs asked them to run the clock and they refused,” Collins told The Los Angeles Times. “I wouldn’t do that to any team — keep your quarterback commit to UCLA in until the end of the game, taking a chance with an injury. It wasn’t good sportsmanship.”
The California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section, the governing body for high school athletics in most of southern California, condemned Inglewood High running up the score against Morningside.
“The CIF Southern Section expects that all athletic contests are to be conducted under the strictest code of good sportsmanship,” per the CIF-SS. “We expect coaches, players, officials, administrators and students to adhere to the Six Pillars of Character — Trustworthiness, Respect, Responsibility, Fairness, Caring and Citizenship. A score of 106-0 does not represent these ideals. The CIF-SS condemns, in the strongest terms, results such as these. It is our expectation that the Inglewood administration will work towards putting in place an action plan so that an event such as this does not repeat itself.”
Matt Poston, a math teacher and the head football coach at Tesoro High School in Ladera Ranch, also took a shot at Inglewood High. “Just read about a Southern CA school winning a game 106-0, throwing 13 TDs passes, and going for 2 being up 100 points. (I hope I’m reading this wrong.),” he wrote on Twitter. “We’re supposed to be teaching young men life lessons through the game. What message was this staff teaching last night? Sad.”
Morningside finishes the season at 2-8, while Inglewood ends at 8-0 and will play in the Southern Section Division 2 playoffs. If karma exists, Inglewood won’t go far. For Collins and Morningside, there’s always next year.
“I’m going to print out the score real big and put it in the weight room so they can see it every day and use it as positive reminder,” he said.
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