Quote:
Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle
"The home management or game committee is responsible for spectator behavior, insofar as it can reasonably be expected to control the spectators. The officials may call fouls on either team if its supporters act in such a way as to interfere with the proper conduct of the game. Discretion must be used in calling such fouls, however, lest a team be unjustly penalized. When team supporters become unruly or interfere with the orderly progress of the game, the officials shall stop the game until the host management resolves the situation and the game can proceed in an orderly manner. In the absence of a designated school representative, the home coach shall serve as the host management."
If the official is going to impose a technical foul due to the behavior of spectators, it will be a team technical and not assessed to the head coach. But it's almost always better not to go there. Let game management deal with the issue.
So it would be considered an indirect T against the coach?
The official is within his rights to have an announcer removed, but there is no rule that allows the official to whack the head coach for the announcer's behavior.
|
I've seen it before where the R has stopped the game & asked game management remove a spectator, or the team would forfeit the game, due to the comments the spectator made. However, I hadn't heard/seen of an announcer being asked to leave in a middle of a game for any such behavior until now.