[81artmonk]

I agree with some of your options, but disagree with most. First off, it wasn't my school where we were playing and I wasn't paying attention to the stands to see who was being rowdy. I, being the coach, was concentrating on the game.
Some of your options were in my mind pretty foolish. Bench the players whose parents were acting crazy, ok, take an out of control situation and make it worse by adding fuel to the fire. That's smart. When someone is angry you don't provoke them. Your pull the team issue, why punish the players for how their parents are acting?? I see your point but don't agree. I did tell the person who was running the tournament to remove people who were rowdy. Just my opinion of course but I don't feel it is my responsibility to run crowd control. I am the coach and that's what I do. Here's a thought, if you as a ref don't like it, why is my issue to correct. Why not stop the game, go to the powers that be running the tournament and tell them that if something isn't done that T's will be issued and you will stop the game again people will be removed. I don't feel that my players, the other players or the coaches have the responsibility to stop this or control it. If you would like to stop the game and let us talk to the crowd sure, but beyond that I disagree with placing that much resonibility on us when we aren't crowd control but coaches. In my mind security of that school was in charge of actions like that, not us.