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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
Yes, Dan, I have no problem having spectators removed.
My most recent two were:
1. Last Saturday a guy yelled, "That's bullsh!t," following my partners call.
2. A student from the home school told a visiting player to "Go back to [visiting home town], you fag."
That's not part of HS sports and I will do something about it; and the NFHS has instructed game officials to do so.
Now at the D1 level, I would leave it totally up to the game administration.
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Good calls.
Here in Ontario, Basketball Ontario a few years ago had to resort to issuing a province-wide policy of zero tolerance in order to curtail this unacceptable behavoir. I know of some local organizations that did not heed the instructions (remember "When in Rome..."). My local board did and I have to say that those couple years were among the most enjoyable of my career. After a coupla years, it started to go sour again. Nowadays, I spot the crap a mile away and deal with it early.
IMO, my current local board is notorious for being inconsistent with this type of stuff.