Parent blows up

[Adam]

Just have the parent removed, don't punish the kid and the team for this.

The F-bomb is irrelevant from the parent, because as soon as he came down to berate the officials, he's leaving. Site management needs to be on top of it, though, and the officials shouldn't even have to address the situation.

[BlueDevilRef]

Originally Posted by Adam

Just have the parent removed, don't punish the kid and the team for this.



The F-bomb is irrelevant from the parent, because as soon as he came down to berate the officials, he's leaving. Site management needs to be on top of it, though, and the officials shouldn't even have to address the situation.

Agreed.
But to be fair, every complex around here where they play travel ball has at least four courts going on at same time with one site manager. It's generally up to the officials to police it. Most of the time it's simple enough to tell people to leave but I'm sure we have all had to delay games waiting for some idiot to leave. Our sites are pretty good at taking care of things and backing officials if it comes to ejecting someone.

[deecee]

8th Grade AAU ball, parent is gone for this and team is assessed a T. Teach em young that this behavior is unacceptable. I may pass on the T IF the coach or someone else from the team was trying to deal with the parent.

In my AAU experience I learned that you shouldn't take crap from ANYONE and you deal with it quickly, punitively and move on. By year #2 on the circuit I had enough of a rep that parents who knew my tolerance would police "new" coaches and parents. My favorite moment was when a new coach stepped out of line and I T'd him up and a mom from the other side of the gym yelled out "I told you he wasn't gonna take your nonsense."

[Adam]

Originally Posted by BlueDevilRef

Agreed.
But to be fair, every complex around here where they play travel ball has at least four courts going on at same time with one site manager. It's generally up to the officials to police it. Most of the time it's simple enough to tell people to leave but I'm sure we have all had to delay games waiting for some idiot to leave. Our sites are pretty good at taking care of things and backing officials if it comes to ejecting someone.

They need to have someone ready to pounce if a fan comes on the court. I'm not saying they need to be able to stop it from happening every single time, but when it does happen I shouldn't be the one to deal with it.

I know travel is a different animal, and maybe that's why I don't work nearly as much of it as I used to (aside from the pay), but expecting officials to deal with this nonsense is too much. I suppose instituting severe penalties like Nevada describes would be helpful.