Really?
 

So, you said:

And I asked how you would handle the situation - in an orderly way? Then you said:

So, after everyone rushes the court, you're going to write the assignor and let them know the rules were not followed?

Well, I guess you handled it! :rolleyes:

What else could of been done if game management was not properly prepared/thought ahead?

It's been stated on here several times the crowd is under the control of game management, NOT the officials.

Simple.

Claymores, K-9s, barbed wire and a Ma Deuce on overwatch.

I'm hanging with you.

I tell you, those competitive rec traveling elite 6U AAU games are nothing to mess around with.

My assigner would want to know why I even knew that fans "rushed the court", why my *** wasn't heaed for the locker room, and WTF did I expect him to do about it.

The teams (or at least certain players) will find a way to shale hands after the game, even with the fans on the court.

You left out "Why are you wasting my time with this sh!t?"

The point you're not getting is that it doesn't matter, unless you're willing to use force and bring sufficient numbers of personnel, you can't stop it. All you can do is threaten punishment later. It doesn't matter how well trained the security guards are; at some point all they can do is step back and take names (or take pictures).

The main difference is you're dealing with college students, who are notoriously eager to buck authority. Telling them not to rush the field/court is like telling my then-three-year-old son not to lock the basement door when his mom and sister are down there.

You're also dealing with a university/college with thousands of students (and allumni) rather than a high school with, at most, one thousand (most of whom will not be at the game). College students don't have their parents with them anymore, either at the game or at home ready to render punishment. Virtually every inhibiting factor present at a high school game is missing at a college game.

Snaq,

I've worked NCAA Athletics before as crowd control, so it can be done. You just have to know how to approach the situation to get a positive response.

Just explain in your letter that the fans rushed on before you had a chance to leave the court.

As in all instances I've seen the fans rush the court just as the final buzzer sounded, which gives no one a chance to get into the locker rooms/off the court.

You're killing me CHS. :rolleyes:

I don't know but I just don't see a lot of crowd control issues at a NCAA swim meet or gymnastics meet :rolleyes:

It can be done most times. There are times it cannot be done. To think otherwise is a bit naive, IMO.

There's a reason some schools have changed to collapsible field goal posts.

I still don't see it, as my a$$ is facing them. I've got tunnel vision after the game is over.

I have officiated games where the crowd rushed the floor as soon as the final buzzer sounded and I had to work my way around them to get out of the gym. Never, I repeat, never have I ever considered giving a T for this. Maybe if it is the last game I ever want to officiate I might because around here if I did that it would be the last varsity game I ever was assigned to - I might get to do some elementary school games after that but never a varsity game again. Plus - I would be the example at the association meetings as to what NOT to do as a varsity official :rolleyes: