In my experience, the schools that have unsportsmanlike fans, have unsportsmanlike coaches, and in turn unsportsmanlike players. School administrators need to address this behavior sooner rather than later. If you are an AD and your head coach is acting like a fool and picking up T's, that behavior needs to be addressed. The players and fans feed off that negative energy from the coach. There are obviously exceptions, but this seems to be true more often than not. Individual fans that are being verbally abusive to officials need to be addressed by administrators before I have to stop the game and ask you to do so.
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