Would Jesus Run Up The Score?

Would you accept a game forfeited to you because you lost really badly? Would that be more embarrasing than the loss itself?

Going into the second half of its high school girls basketball game earlier
this month, The Covenant Lady Knights were beating an inferior Dallas Academy
Bulldogs team 59-0 with victory appearing inevitable.

What followed was described as a "great loss" for the Texas-based Christian
academy, as the team kept the pressure on and trounced the Bulldogs in a 100-0
drubbing, raising an ethical fire storm and questions about exactly how wide a
margin of victory is victory enough. The debate came to a head on Sunday, when coach Micah Grimes refused to agree with an apology issued by Covenant Head Kyle Queal, in which he called the win a "victory without honour" and called for the game to be forfeited to Dallas Academy, which had not yet won a game in
divisional play.

"It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened. This clearly does not reflect a Christ-like and honorable approach to
competition," Mr. Queal wrote in a note posted on the school's Web site, just
over a week after the Jan. 13 game. "The school and its representatives in no
way support or condone the running up of a score against any team in any sport
for any reason."

But the idea that a team driving itself to victory could be considered unChristian raises the puzzling question: "What would Jesus do, if faced with a far inferior basketball team?" The rest of the story is here.

What do you think? Is this taking WWJD a bit too far?