Jr high crowd insane

[81artmonk]

I agree with some of your options, but disagree with most. First off, it wasn't my school where we were playing and I wasn't paying attention to the stands to see who was being rowdy. I, being the coach, was concentrating on the game.
Some of your options were in my mind pretty foolish. Bench the players whose parents were acting crazy, ok, take an out of control situation and make it worse by adding fuel to the fire. That's smart. When someone is angry you don't provoke them. Your pull the team issue, why punish the players for how their parents are acting?? I see your point but don't agree. I did tell the person who was running the tournament to remove people who were rowdy. Just my opinion of course but I don't feel it is my responsibility to run crowd control. I am the coach and that's what I do. Here's a thought, if you as a ref don't like it, why is my issue to correct. Why not stop the game, go to the powers that be running the tournament and tell them that if something isn't done that T's will be issued and you will stop the game again people will be removed. I don't feel that my players, the other players or the coaches have the responsibility to stop this or control it. If you would like to stop the game and let us talk to the crowd sure, but beyond that I disagree with placing that much resonibility on us when we aren't crowd control but coaches. In my mind security of that school was in charge of actions like that, not us.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by 81artmonk

Just my opinion of course but I don't feel it is my responsibility to run crowd control. I am the coach and that's what I do.

You're correct. The behavior of the crowd isn't your responsibility, unless you also happen to be game management. If there's a problem with the fans, the officials should have game management take care of the problem, or game management should take care of the problem themselves before the officials ask them to.

[BillyMac]

I used to coach a middle school team and on a few occasions, when our fans, especially our student fans, were getting a little too rowdy, for example, yelling while our opponents were shooting free throws, I would call a time out, walk across the court, and ask them to calm down, or I would have the site director remove them from the gymnasium. If the "burned" time out had cost me the game, I wouldn't care, sportsmanship and being a good host are more important than a win, and by the way, I really, really, liked to win.

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I used to coach a middle school team and on a few occasions, when our fans, especially our student fans, were getting a little too rowdy, for example, yelling while our opponents were shooting free throws, I would call a time out, walk across the court, and ask them to calm down, or I would have the site director remove them from the gymnasium. If the "burned" time out had cost me the game, I wouldn't care, sportsmanship and being a good host are more important than a win.

Yeah, and if there were more coaches like you were, we wouldn't have near as much to discuss here!

Good show!

[refnrev]

Always remember... the younger the players the dumber the parents... every sport... every town... every state... and especially in tournaments.

[deecee]

Mick -- I dont know -- I just dont know....

Once again this is Jr.High with NBA expectations -- a coach should be responsible for their fans, not in the rules sense but in the common sense way.

I am just saying that you had refs that took it way to easy -- and it sounds like you dont have control of your team either jmo.

[dblref]

Originally Posted by deecee

Mick -- I dont know -- I just dont know....

Once again this is Jr.High with NBA expectations -- a coach should be responsible for their fans, not in the rules sense but in the common sense way.

I am just saying that you had refs that took it way to easy -- and it sounds like you dont have control of your team either jmo.

You need to learn to better comprehend what was written. He never said there was a problem in the game with his team, he said the problem was with the parents. It isn't the coach's responsibility to control the fans.