Incident With Fan

[Juulie Downs]

When the mom came out onto the floor to talk to you, you should have found some sort of site administrator to address the issue. Fans have no business pulling that kind of stuff. Then when the fans continued to berate you, again, site administration should have become involved.

In a game like this, I have literally used a fire exit to get out away from nasty fans. Whatever it takes.

And then, don't work in that league or whatever again. If the powers that be can't control their fans any better than that, you don't want to even go there.

[canuckrefguy]

"Sorry ma'am, which player is your son?"
"Number 14."
"Tweet. Technical foul - White 14."

[shishstripes]

I agree with Juulie outside of the fact they should never have allowed a parent to get on the floor without running out there to put her back where she belonged. Which bags the question, 6 court facility, very doubtful there was game administration on each court.

Do we know who our game administrators are and where they can be found?

I had a situation umpiring where after the game, the losing coach came after my partner in the parking lot and my partner was "egging" the coach on, you could see a lot brewing during the game as well. I was able to get between them and had the coach (who was also a parent) calm down enough to look around at all of his players staring wide-eyed. He apologized to me and went to his car.

[Kingsman1288]

Originally Posted by shishstripes

Do we know who are game administration is and where they can be found?

Not on a consistent basis, no. With 6 courts they run all over the place so it takes forever to find one.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Kingsman1288

Not on a consistent basis, no. With 6 courts they run all over the place so it takes forever to find one.

Ask the table to call Game Management to your court (if they have phones / walkie-talkies) or to get GM's attention when they next come by. Restart the game.

When GM comes by stop the game or at a natural stoppage, talk to them and have the offender removed.

[jeffpea]

if you do not have the parent ejected from the game and do not press charges, what makes you think these parents (or any others parents/fans watching this unfold) will stop engaging in this behavior in the future?

[JMUplayer]

Originally Posted by jeffpea

if you do not have the parent ejected from the game and do not press charges, what makes you think these parents (or any others parents/fans watching this unfold) will stop engaging in this behavior in the future?

I agree with the above.