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.