Parent blows up

[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.