I disagree with the mercy rule in six-man but it would be ridiculous to implement it in elven-man because the teams are often more evenly matched and beating a team badly in elven-man remains a much more difficult feat than in six-man. Disagree with me about the rule? If so, ask yourself the following question; why do kids/students chose to spend their time in extracurricular actives versus doing something else? While the answer might vary slightly from student to student, most want to play the sport. I hate driving to six-man games just to watch a half because kids only get between 40 and 60 high school games in their careers and I feel like the mercy rule cheats both teams out of a chance to play. There are extreme situations in six-man, but not as much in eleven-man. Richland beating Eden 96-0 in 07 comes to mind but, if I understand correctly, Richland put their slowest guy at spread-back and still scored. Besides, Richland really played "Eden's JV' because the Eden starters tried to wrap the school or something along those lines. The most incredible and yet overlooked accomplishment of Tyler Ethridge's career constitutes the fact he only played a half way more than 50% of the time.
Political correctness in our societies ruins a lot of things, but why should we allow it to ruin sports? Besides in elven-man a coach could just switch his lineman and skill position players and drastically reduce an offenses effectiveness due to the specialization within the sport. I am sure the team that lost 91-0 could stop one of the tackles playing running back. Basically, I see the argument for the mercy rule in six-man, though I disagree with it and would rather just play, but eleven-man does not need it. Then again, lawsuits maybe the best argument for the mercy rule in either sport, or any sport for that matter, but we are really screwed up as a society, more than I though previously, if we need to go there.
