Artificial Noisemakers

[davidw]

megaphone being used as a noisemaker is definitely illegal. Banging it on the floor to make noise could be construed to be artificial noise. Had she continued with it--probably would have asked admin. to have her discontinue.

Reminds me--first school game this year, had a rowdy visiting crowd. Noticed sometime in first Q. a megaphone being used by one of them. Took first opportunity to do something discreetly about it as I was near that teams bench and quickly asked head coach for help on that. He recognized sit. and took care of it. I thought if I could do it quickly and not stir the potential 'hornets nest' that would be better. It seemed to work out fine.

As I think about it now I wonder if making a more demonstrative deal about it by going to admin. and/or stopping action to do so would have made a point to crowd so future incidents might be reduced. That is one other approach or take on this matter. Though I still feel good about how we handled it.