Parent on the Floor
 

Injured player, coach beckoned. Parent comes down to the floor uninvited.

Your move.

26 Year Gap needs to queue up the pop corn dude for this one.

Technical foul, toss the parent from the gym

*end sarcasm*

I'm not doing anything.

Read this thread for the general consensus of how to handle this...and how most would NOT handle it.

http://forum.officiating.com/basketb...-t-up-fan.html

Stand aside, wait until the player is removed, resume game.

Call chseagle to tazer the parent.

If the parent doesn't say anything to me, I'm probably not going to say/do anything. If the parent utters one word that is any type of complaint, after the parent sees to their child, I'm getting security to escort them out of the building.

Bob, that's twice in a week that you have given me a great laugh.:D

Are you implying that there may be an official in Nevada who is not part of "most"?

+1

C'mon Bob......
 

It's the holiday season, lighten up on..............the parent! ;)

Are people posting these threads just for me? :D

Unfortunately, we had a situation last week in which a parent came out of the stands to harangue a young official and his veteran partner did not take care of business. :(

I still maintain that everyone is better off if the court is off-limits to the parents and spectators.

That's not what people disputed... just sayin. :)

a solution
 

Mandate that all parents of players on all levels are locked in a room away from the court and made to watch the game their kid plays in on a 6 in CRT TV set.

How soon can we get that implemented?

can't we simply play games with a "No Parents Allowed" rule?...they're the ones that cause the most problems because they yell/scream, don't know the rules, and become so irrational that they cannot control their behavior.......

oh wait....on second thought....can we play game with a "No Coaches Allowed" rule as well?....:)

Welpe's wish is granted.
 

Hey, do you think we get paid for having fun? :D
wanna get paid? you gotta bring the change.

My town's rec director says there are four types of people in sports: players, coaches, officials, and spectators. Ninety percent of the problems arise when one category tries to be another.

After looking over the thread APG posted, I can see Nevada's point. The technical foul is not necessarily to punish the incident, but to discourage the behavior. You can't discourage such behavior without consequences.

The closest thing I have to this sitch is in a U-14 boys' soccer game in October. A kid got hurt, and his mom blew right past the A/R on the sideline toward the center of the field. The center referee told her she had to leave (the kid wasn't hurt that badly), and out came the "but I'm his mother!" arguments. The opposing coach -- on the line I was working -- loudly insisted we can't have parents on the field.

That really comes down to my point. Rules are agreements, and in the aforementioned case, it was indeed agreed upon by that league that parents will not come on the field, for any reason. If we generally agree that the same should be the case in basketball, then most of us would have no problem here penalizing any such court-entry actions.

Ultimately, it sounds like a case where Roman Law reigns supreme.

Stand aside, wait until the player is removed, resume game.

Otherwise, there's nothing else to do unless the parent proves he/she can't be rational.

'Twas I that posted the thread. ;)

And I've never heard of anyone issuing a T in this situation (parent is taking care of kid and nothing toward me)...Nevada is literally the first person I've seen suggest that route.

Fixed it, APG. Thanks.

Had this problem at a varsity girl's tournament this summer. Girl goes down in a heap; coach and trainer come onto the court to tend to her, followed shortly by the father. As the father walks by my partner, he says something akin to "If you'd call the game right, this wouldn't happen."

I called the tournament director over and had her remove the dad from the gym. We had no problem with dad coming onto the court, but once he opened his mouth to us, he was not going to hang around to see the rest of the game.

Assuming that the parent is the player's parent (or guardian), then I beckon them on. And I don't care where they are, I still beckon, even if they're already on the court.

We had one of these cases 3 years ago. The young official told the local association that the reason he didn't quit was because the other official did "take care of business" (paraphrasing to match your comment).

HaHahahahahahahaha!!!!

Always laugh at Bob's jokes

Hard to tazer a person when I cannot run that fast to catch a person thanks to my bum knee.

Parent comes on the floor, evaluate the need for the parent on the floor and act accordingly.

I thought that's why you had a posse.

TASERS have great range, so that shouldn't be a problem from the table. I suppose though you could always transition to an LRAD.

There's a difference between being tripped, and tripping ...
 

What's the call if a player trips over the parent?

I assume that the parent and child go to the same school, so I've got nothing. Since when did night school students become eligible, anyway?

Unfortunately all of us have bad knees or backs.

Really?
 

Not me. Yet. 54, and still out-running the young guns.

I wish my knees were 30 years old, instead they feel like 90 years old thanks to 2 car accidents & a fight with the basketball court. Had an arthroscopy done with little results as I even have a bit of difficulty going up stairs.

I've came to the thinking like others, if the parent is out there and not hindering the treatment or harassing the floor officials: let them be.

My point is you can use the TASER or an LRAD from the comfort of your seat.

The Gun That Won The West ...
 

Better yet? A Winchester Model 1873.

35 feet or so but they aren't as accurate a pistol. Make sure when firing you account for the 12 degree downward angle they fire at.

And don't go in having already decided to fire it even though you haven't assessed the situation. :eek:

I'd rather use a 1976 Ruger 6 Security Bicentennial instead, sorry :D

When I do firearm shooting, I always verify severity of situation & clearly identify target before shooting.

Yeah, those clay pigeons are uppity fowl aren't they?

Try unwanted animals (dogs & cats) coming onto the property. An occasional pop can/plastic bottle.

Oh my...I'm sorry I asked.