Ever Deal With Fans off-court? Do You Always Ignore On-Court?

[JoeTheRef]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

Joe, just curious what you think your questions have to do with the fan behavior at the game? Are we going to call a game differently, depending on the amount of crap we're likely to get from fans? Or depending on how many fans will be at the game? Obviously not. I don't see how a better pre-game would affect the fans' reactions.

I was actually in the process of editing my post to say that I was curious if there was anything we as officials can do to ensure a game doesn't get totally out of hand? Call it tighter? Anything? Or do we just succumb to the fact that fans, players, and coaches are going to be jerks to the point that it provokes incidents like what happened in Arch's game.

[JoeTheRef]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

Joe, just curious what you think your questions have to do with the fan behavior at the game? Are we going to call a game differently, depending on the amount of crap we're likely to get from fans? Or depending on how many fans will be at the game? Obviously not. I don't see how a better pre-game would affect the fans' reactions.

I was actually in the process of editing my post to say that I was curious if there was anything we as officials can do to ensure a game doesn't get totally out of hand? Call it tighter? Anything? Or do we just succumb to the fact that fans, players, and coaches are going to be jerks to the point that it provokes incidents like what happened in Arch's game.

[JoeTheRef]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

Joe, just curious what you think your questions have to do with the fan behavior at the game? Are we going to call a game differently, depending on the amount of crap we're likely to get from fans? Or depending on how many fans will be at the game? Obviously not. I don't see how a better pre-game would affect the fans' reactions.

Scrap, if you have two big rivals do you pregame and officiate the game the same as you would with 2 mediocre, non rival teams playing each other for the first time or rarely play each other?

[Scrapper1]

Did a varsity game once when there was a grandmother-type there. I couldn't spot her, but I could hear her every once in a while. Nothing specific, just "that's terrible!" or "come on!". That sort of thing.

As we're leaving the building after the game, we walk past an old lady who says to us, "You were terrible tonight". I just said, "Oh, that was you!" and kept walking.