I'm at a loss at where school officials can determine that a student/athlete is doing TOO well to the point they have to prevent him from being who he is, a talented player.
For one thing it's little league football. For another it's one student versus 11 on the opposing team that can't catch him. Is the problem with him, or with the other team(s). In one game he scored 7 touchdowns.
Personally I don't think this is right. Kids need all the positive reinforcement they can get. But they do need to learn that there will always, ALWAYS be someone better than they are. Eventually Demias will learn that. In a way he's not as far ahead of the curve as the other kids that "lose to him". They're also, it seems, overlooking at the fact that football (like any other) is a team sport. That Demias was able to accomplish his amazing (for a kid his age) feat via the efforts of other members of the team.
It's just one kid. One talented, fast kid. He's not a superhero in the making or incognito. His humility is something to be admired at least. That to me shows a lot of character for someone his age.
Thoughts?
For one thing it's little league football. For another it's one student versus 11 on the opposing team that can't catch him. Is the problem with him, or with the other team(s). In one game he scored 7 touchdowns.
Now according to the article/video the rule doesn't apply beyond the 6th grade, but will he be just as good in junior high ball? How about regular high school, college and eventually pro ball? The game gets harder the older the players so it's easy to assume that he's not going to score every single time he has the ball in every single game that he plays til he decides not to play anymore or is injured out.According to Arkansas Fox affiliate Fox 16, 11-year-old Demias Jimerson has emerged as such a dominant running back that the Wilson Intermediate Football League he plays in has reinstated a bylaw called the "Madre Hill rule," which bars him from scoring a touchdown if he has already scored three times and his team has a lead of 14 points or more.
The rule is named after former University of Arkansas star and Oakland Raider Madre Hill, who, like Jimerson, played youth football in the Malvern, Arkansas area. Hill proved so adept at getting the ball into the end zone whenever he touched it that the WIFL came up with the rule to try and keep scores from getting too out of hand.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/...D-limit-to-hold-back-11?urn=highschool-wp6562
Personally I don't think this is right. Kids need all the positive reinforcement they can get. But they do need to learn that there will always, ALWAYS be someone better than they are. Eventually Demias will learn that. In a way he's not as far ahead of the curve as the other kids that "lose to him". They're also, it seems, overlooking at the fact that football (like any other) is a team sport. That Demias was able to accomplish his amazing (for a kid his age) feat via the efforts of other members of the team.
It's just one kid. One talented, fast kid. He's not a superhero in the making or incognito. His humility is something to be admired at least. That to me shows a lot of character for someone his age.
Thoughts?