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

[fullor30]

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

But do you have bushy eyebrows?

Nice!!!

[grunewar]

BlindZebra - Man, I gotta come to some of your games! Good stuff!

[Reffing Hoosier]

I don't know if the has been posted here, but this is a good example of how to or not to deal with fans.



Association Leaders,
this was reported the situation below. Please remind your
officials that they should never attempt to deal with unruly fans but
should follow protocol and report the situation to the game management
and allow that group to deal with the unruly fan. You never know what
might happen and you should not put yourself in danger.

Theresia D. Wynns
Assistant Commissioner
Indiana High School Athletic Association



Theresia, One of my young officials had a game at New Castle Saturday
night. A fan in the crowd from Marion was cussing at the girls and
officials. Game management was made aware of the situation. They
called
police and he was arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct. However
during the pat down a loaded hand gun was discovered. I have sent out a
note to our members telling them if they have a problem with a spectator
get game management.

[26 Year Gap]

A guy in our association had his hand in a cast for several weeks and his shoe came untied. A player came up to him and said, "My Dad can help you with that." The official wondered if the kid was wising off when he heard a voice call him from behind saying, "It's okay, I'm his Dad." He had no right hand.

[Ignats75]

Here's a memorably sad situation from last year. Boys sixth grade CYO. I do very little because its usually not worth the hassle. I do just enough so that the assignor usually gives me some of the diocesean championships. (BTW---around here CYO stands for Catholic Yelling Organization)

I am trail and player is stuck in the corner right in front of me trapped because he picked up his dribble. He held his pivot foot but was struggling to find a passing lane when his other foot stepped on the side line. Easy call. White! and we're going the other way. At which point a mother jumped out of the stands from the fourth row and starts running towards me getting no less than six M-F's out of her mouth. I didn't know if I was going to have to defend myself or what, but I stepped back onto the floor away from the sideline about two steps and just said loudly as I pointed towards the far end and the door, "just keep going ma'am".

It really shook me up though that someone would act that way at a sixth grade game. I wrote a letter to the diocese andcc'd the assignor and I guess the school got in hot water. I dropped the rest of my CYO games at that site.

[JugglingReferee]

Darn those Catholics!

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

Darn those Catholics!

Didn't Henry VIII say the same thing?

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

Didn't Henry VIII say the same thing?

Wasn't that about the time the word disconsorting came into the language?

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

Wasn't that about the time the word disconsorting came into the language?

It's Dan PATRICK that is associated with Consort.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

It's Dan PATRICK that is associated with Consort.

Who is Dan Patrick? I know Danica Patrick. She's smokin' hott.

[golfdesigner]

I had a rec league game 6-7th grade girls, working the game with my son, I'm lead, son is trail, player with ball makes a quick move across top of key, coach yells for a travel, I'm kind of watching out for my son, did notice the move, but didn't look like a travel to me, I thought my son had it right, we do have a foul so we're going to be going the other way, play moves down floor, I now am trail right in front of coach, he keeps right on yelling about the travel, play goes back down floor my son is now trail opposite coach, he keeps harping on the travel, "how many steps does she get... how many steps" play now goes down floor and I have coach again, this time "stop" sign goes up, he says "oh great she gets five huh, five steps" I stop sign again and tell coach enough, time to move on. He keeps at it, so give him stop again, keeps it up, "whack" first one, maybe a little slow at giving him what he had earned, so now I put up stop and he keeps going, "don't put up your hand to me" stop sign again "don't put up your hand to me" so this time I tell coach you've had one and you're working on the second, "don't put up your hand to me" this time I whack him again, and tell him he's done for the day and needs to leave the gym. Coach is *****in' and moaning all the way to the door, he stops and leans on the door jamb, like he's settling in for the duration, I tell him no you're gone, out of the building, he turns and huffs out.

The fifty some parents that are there watching give me a standing ovation.

The coach does have a bit of a reputation, and I guess they were glad to see him get something he had been working on for a while.

[jdw3018]

Originally Posted by golfdesigner

how many steps" play now goes down floor and I have coach again, this time "stop" sign goes up, he says "oh great she gets five huh, five steps" I stop sign again and tell coach enough, time to move on. He keeps at it, so give him stop again, keeps it up, "whack" first one, maybe a little slow at giving him what he had earned, so now I put up stop and he keeps going, "don't put up your hand to me" stop sign again "don't put up your hand to me" so this time I tell coach you've had one and you're working on the second, "don't put up your hand to me" this time I whack him again, and tell him he's done for the day and needs to leave the gym. Coach is *****in' and moaning all the way to the door, he stops and leans on the door jamb, like he's settling in for the duration, I tell him no you're gone, out of the building, he turns and huffs out.

As you said, probably slow giving out the first T, but that sounds like a coach who just doesn't know any better...and the fact that everyone in the gym applauded like that is a sign that he's just gotten away with it before.

How do people like that even enjoy basketball?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by golfdesigner

I now am trail right in front of coach, he keeps right on yelling about the travel, play goes back down floor my son is now trail opposite coach, he keeps harping on the travel, "how many steps does she get... how many steps" play now goes down floor and I have coach again, this time "stop" sign goes up, he says "oh great she gets five huh, five steps" I stop sign again and tell coach enough, time to move on. He keeps at it, so give him stop again, keeps it up, "whack" first one, maybe a little slow at giving him what he had earned, so now I put up stop and he keeps going, "don't put up your hand to me" stop sign again "don't put up your hand to me" so this time I tell coach you've had one and you're working on the second, "don't put up your hand to me" this time I whack him again, and tell him he's done for the day and needs to leave the gym.

Lah me......

"This time I really, really mean it".......

The idea of giving a warning is to let the coach know that enough is enough. A "stop" sign means STOP. It doesn't mean anything else but STOP. By my count, you had....oh......about five(5) too many warnings in the sequence above. Why would the coach listen to any of your warnings if he knows that you're not going to follow through? Of course, he ignored you.

Warn-----> whack!

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

Darn those Catholics!

There is very little whitespace between the brim on the r and the stick of the n. It kinda looks like d-a-m. Dam those Catholics.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

There is very little whitespace between the brim on the r and the stick of the n. It kinda looks like d-a-m. Dam those Catholics.

Shouldn't that come from an Oregon State fan? [Assuming there are any.]