Williamson 100, Murphy 0. Let that sink in. Triple digits. This wasn’t a typo or a stat guy fat-fingering the scoreboard. Williamson hung a full Benjamin on Murphy while the Panthers just stood there catching haymakers. It was 73 to 0 at halftime and the ref offered a running clock. The Murphy coach looked at that mercy option and said “nah, let’s keep the pain train rolling.” Final score: 100 to 0.

That’s not just a beatdown. That’s a crime scene. There are two ways to handle a slaughter like this. Option one: you take the high road. You run the clock, get the kids out, live to fight another Friday. Option two: you do what Murphy’s coach did. He waved off the running clock and let his team be target practice for two more quarters. That was a calculated, diabolical move. Straight up sadistic. Either he wanted the humiliation or he was so checked out he didn’t care. Both answers are pathetic.

This wasn’t just a lopsided Friday night. It is history. Williamson is the first Alabama high school team to drop 100 since Keith put up 122 back in 1970. That’s fifty five years of coaches saying “we don’t do that anymore.” And here we are. You don’t stumble into a hundred points by accident. You have to keep the pedal down. You have to keep calling plays when the game is already a chalk outline.

Numbers tell the story. Williamson has been smoking people all year. Their offense has been a cheat code, dropping video game numbers every week. Murphy? Winless. Overmatched from the jump. Whoever scheduled this matchup might as well have thrown a freshman JV squad into an SEC game. But the second half humiliation? That’s on the Murphy sideline.

Want some history? Alabama used to have monster blowouts back in the early 1900s when teams like Langdale and Hamilton both put up 125 once upon a time. That was when leather helmets were a thing and sportsmanship was a suggestion. Modern football doesn’t see triple digit wins because coaches have a basic sense of humanity. Until now.

Here’s the part that sticks in your throat. High school football is supposed to be about teaching kids how to compete, how to work as a team, how to handle adversity. Watching teenagers get steamrolled for four quarters while the adults shrug is not a lesson in toughness. It is a masterclass in failure. A running clock is not waving a white flag. It is common sense. It is keeping your players safe and sparing them from a viral moment they will never live down.

And don’t get it twisted. Williamson isn’t the villain here. Their kids played ball. Offense, defense, special teams, they kept doing what they practice. You tell athletes to play to the whistle and they did. But great coaching isn’t just drawing up touchdowns. It is knowing when enough is enough. Williamson could have eased off. Murphy should have protected its players. Both staffs whiffed on that part.

This game is going to be talked about for years. Not because it was good football, but because it turned into a circus. If your idea of building character is letting your team get demolished to the tune of 100 to 0, maybe you should be coaching CrossFit, not high school kids.

Bottom line: Williamson proved they can score at will. Murphy’s players deserved adults who wouldn’t let them be live tackling dummies. The coach who turned down the running clock didn’t just lose a football game. He lost the plot entirely. That choice wasn’t tough. It was masochistic. If you care about your players, you don’t feed them to the wolves for four quarters. You do better.