Parent on the Floor

[bainsey]

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

Your move.

[Welpe]

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

[APG]

Technical foul, toss the parent from the gym

*end sarcasm*

I'm not doing anything.

[APG]

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

T Up a Fan?!?

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer

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

T Up a Fan?!?

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

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by bainsey

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

Your move.

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

Call chseagle to tazer the parent.

[tomegun]

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.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by tomegun

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.

+1

[dsqrddgd909]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

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

Call chseagle to tazer the parent.

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

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Call chseagle to tazer the parent.

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

[Nevadaref]

Are people posting these threads just for me?

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.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

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.

[jkumpire]

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.

[bainsey]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

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

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.

[APG]

Originally Posted by bainsey

After looking over the thread BNR 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.

'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.