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Old Wed Dec 13, 2000, 12:52pm
Brian Watson Brian Watson is offline
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I use a basic rule of thumb. We are there for the players and coaches first. Therefore, I will show them before the game where we will be standing (if I know they will be there, if I don't and they are down there, then on a dead ball I'll let them know). I give them one chance to make sure they are out of my way, if they don't, I move em.

I had a cheerleader coach complain (giving me the whole they have a right to be there spiel)to me once after I made them move. I simply told her that the girls were getting in my way after I asked them not to. Now it is a safety issue; I am a lot bigger than they are If I am looking over my shoulder on a break,they get in the way and I don't see them, I will win and they will be hurt. She had never looked at it that way, and those girls stayed on the sidelines the rest of the night.

Plus, who wants to know they blew a call because the cheerleader got in the way.
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