What would you do?

Lotto · #1 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 29, 2007, 03:34pm

High school girl's varsity game. Extremely small gym. Home coach and crowd (no doubt following the spirit of the home coach) are quesitoning every call. Game very close. I'd T'd the coach with about 2 minutes left for coming after my partner on a foul call he made. (He claimed he was just yelling at his players, but I didn't believe him.) I make an out of bounds call on a home player with 22 seconds left in the game. A group of boys sitting behind the home bench, who have been particularly rowdy all game, start chanting loudly, in unison, "We got screwed! We got screwed!"

What do you do, if anything?

Raymond · #2 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 29, 2007, 03:38pm

If you determine that loud chants of "WE GOT SCREWED" is offensive and out-of-line then have Game Admin address the offenders.

Or you could stop the game and give them the THE STARE.

MJT · #3 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 29, 2007, 03:40pm

Nothing at the time, but a letter or email to the AD would not be out of the question. At our school, an admistrator would be on top of them in a second and have them removed. At some schools the administration does not care. That is a sad situation when it occurs in a HS. College is different.

grunewar · #4 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 29, 2007, 03:40pm

And put the ball in play and be off the floor in 23 seconds......

Old School · #5 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 29, 2007, 03:43pm

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Originally Posted by MJT

Nothing at the time, but a letter or email to the AD would not be out of the question. At our school, an admistrator would be on top of them in a second and have them removed. At some schools the administration does not care. That is a sad situation when it occurs in a HS. College is different.

What's so different about college?

grunewar · #6 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 29, 2007, 03:49pm

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Originally Posted by Old School

What's so different about college?

At U of Md mens program a few Yrs back the school took it into their own hands and refused to play a certain "song" when the "fans" started chanting off color verbiage in certain places...... Even Gary Williams took the floor and told them to show more class....

mick · #7 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 29, 2007, 03:56pm

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Originally Posted by Lotto

High school girl's varsity game. Extremely small gym. Home coach and crowd (no doubt following the spirit of the home coach) are quesitoning every call. Game very close. I'd T'd the coach with about 2 minutes left for coming after my partner on a foul call he made. (He claimed he was just yelling at his players, but I didn't believe him.) I make an out of bounds call on a home player with 22 seconds left in the game. A group of boys sitting behind the home bench, who have been particularly rowdy all game, start chanting loudly, in unison, "We got screwed! We got screwed!"

What do you do, if anything?

In Michigan, officials can write a "Letter of Concern" to the Michigan High School Athletic Association.
"Letters of Praise" are also accepted.

rockyroad · #8 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 29, 2007, 04:05pm

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Originally Posted by Old School

What's so different about college?

I agree wholeheartedly with what Old School says on this topic!!

(There...only two more to go M&M Guy!!)

Jurassic Referee · #9 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 29, 2007, 04:07pm

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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Or you could stop the game and give them the THE STARE.

And a technical foul to every fan too......

I read somewhere that's the NFHS recommended procedure.

M&M Guy · #10 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 29, 2007, 04:09pm

Jurassic Referee · #11 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 29, 2007, 04:09pm

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Originally Posted by rockyroad

I agree wholeheartedly with what Old School says on this topic!!

(There...only two more to go M&M Guy!!)

LOL....

Geeze, DEEJ, there's penance and there's penance. But this is PENANCE.

Man, talk about overkill......

rockyroad · #12 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 29, 2007, 04:39pm

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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

LOL....

Geeze, DEEJ, there's penance and there's penance. But this is PENANCE.

Man, talk about overkill......

I gots to do what I gots to do!!

mattmets · #13 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 29, 2007, 07:39pm

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Originally Posted by grunewar

At U of Md mens program a few Yrs back the school took it into their own hands and refused to play a certain "song" when the "fans" started chanting off color verbiage in certain places...... Even Gary Williams took the floor and told them to show more class....

Referring to the "Hey!" song?

Dan_ref · #14 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 29, 2007, 08:06pm

You do nothing.

But if they were truly rowdy all game...you should have taken care of it much, much earlier.

If they were just annoying...enjoy the show. You probably did screw 'em!

Texas Aggie · #15 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 29, 2007, 08:31pm

I don't get this business about taking care of it. What's to take care of? It isn't vulgar. Maybe a bit distasteful, but hey, they have free speech rights. If the administrator wants to deal with it, they can, but I'm not doing anything about it, first minute or last.