It Has To Stop!

[BoomerSooner]

Another interesting route to explore in this matter is that if the school that this happened in is a state ran institution, then depending on the employment status of the student officials, this act could constitute assulting a state employee. I spent a few seasons as an IM official at OU, which is state ran/funded, and we had a similar instance of a player threatening an official. The player was ejected from the building but waited for the official and decided to throw a sucker punch on the official. Just as the punch landed a campus police officer rounded the corner and arrested the kid on the spot. Case got turned over to the state attorney's office, not the local DA like a normal case would. Not only was the kid out a ton of money for legal expenses, but was found guilty, got hit with a nice fine and something like 5 years probation, all for "assulting a state employee".

[SWMOzebra]

Many years ago when I was in college, I served on the Faculty-Student Judicial Board...a kind of "last appeal" for everything from parking tickets to academic dishonesty. We heard many cases concerning student athletes, but only one intramural case, almost a duplicate of what is described.

Not only did the player get charged by the local prosecutor, the Dean of Students suspended him for the remainder of the semester (no refund of fees) and placed him on academic probation if he re-enrolled the following semester. When he tried to change schools, he found his transcript was marked with all this information and the other schools were also going to place him on academic probation as a condition of enrollment. He appealed to us to overturn the suspension, which we did not. His academic career was severely derailed because he'd lost his temper during a stupid IM basketball game and broke a ref's nose.

TMP, the bottom line is this: the school has got to step in with an additional punishment other than "banned from IM sports" to make students think twice about doing something crazy like this.