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No brainer that the athletes should be subject to DQ for encounters with spectators which are way out of line, but the penalty should have nothing to do with where the athlete is standing. Give the officials the discretion to judge the situation solely on the behavior itself, and not be restricted by where it takes place.
Under what is written above a kid who is OOB for a thrown-in and curses at a spectator gets ejected, but one who is one step inbounds and gives him the finger wouldn't get tossed.
What if a kid is inbounds during a timeout and throws a water bottle from the team huddle into the stands?
The NCAA person who wrote this didn't think it through. Very poor construction.
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