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Originally Posted by BryanV21
Going after the fan like that seems to fall outside of our jurisdiction. If it was a player on player thing, then by all means he'd be t'd up and ejected. But player on fan... I don't know. I look forward to the responses.
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You are clearly young and still a rather inexperienced official. You absolutely need to make the time to read the NFHS Case Book from cover to cover and all of the past NFHS interpretations posted in a thread on this website. From reading several of your comments on this forum, it is obvious that you have never made the effort to educate yourself as much as possible on the rulings which govern your avocation. That failure is a serious mistake.
If you would fully prepare before stepping on the court, you would be aware of rulings such as the following:
2008-09 NFHS Basketball Rules Interpretations
SITUATION 9: Team members are leaving for the locker room at halftime when a fan taunts a member of the visiting team. The visiting team member immediately reacts, goes toward the fan and gets in a fight with him/her. RULING: The referee rules a flagrant technical foul on the visiting team member for fighting and he/she is ejected. Since he/she is a team member during intermission, an indirect technical foul is also charged to the head coach (loss of coaching box). The referee is also within his/her authority to assess a team technical foul for unsporting behavior on the spectator. If this occurs, the technical fouls are offsetting since they occur at the same time. The penalties are the same with the exception of bench personnel being ejected. If both technical fouls are assessed, each team begins the second half with one foul toward the team-foul count and play begins at the point of interruption, which is an alternating-possession throw-in to begin the third quarter. (10-1-8; 10-4-1g)
10.5.5 SITUATION B:
A spectator heckles Team A member, A9, while he/she is sitting on Team A's bench. A9 leaves the bench area and goes into the stands to confront the fan.
RULING: Team A's head coach is assessed a direct technical foul for permitting A9 to leave the bench area for an unauthorized reason. Team B is awarded two free throws and the ball for a division line throw-in. The Team A head coach has lost coaching-box privileges for the remainder of the game.