The problem with youth league games is always that the referees at that level are generally inexperienced in how to deal with coaches, so the coaches, not to mention the parents in the stands following the coach's lead, get away with murder. I think that if an almost zero-tolerance policy were put into place at the youth level that the amount of abuse would taper significantly. At the youth level, there are too many inexperienced coaches who want to be Bobby Knight and too many inexperienced officials who can't handle them.
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