At what point do you acknowledge fans/parents?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by buckrog64

I hate to punish the players because their fans are jerks, but sometimes if you get picky on stuff and you call fouls that are truly fouls but at other times you might have let them go, then sometimes a message can be sent and hopefully received.

Now you are punishing the players for their fans though. That's just wrong. Be consistent with your foul-calling and forget about "sending messages" to people who aren't causing you the problems in the first place.

[Mark Padgett]

One thing I really miss is hearing any chants from the stands like the one we used to do in HS when we thought a call went against us (which was most of the time). Chants like, "Elevator, elevator, we got the shaft".

Also, we'd yell when an opponent was going to shoot a FT, "See that basket, see that ball, c'mon stupid, hit the wall".

We never got reprimanded for any of it. Different times.

Oh yeah - some of us would yell in Latin, too.