Handling Fans

[mikesears]

Originally posted by mcrowder
I can't imagine a site admin inciting a crowd - do you have an actual example? Is he also the coach? (There again, USC is an obvious option).

Unfortunately I do have an example from a couple of years ago. I worked (notice the past tense here) a pee-wee game where the site admin was the head coach. This pee-wee league plays 4 games starting with the youngest and going to the oldest and he was the coach for the first game (and a real jerk, too).

During the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th games, he was complaining like he was a coach and his complaining only incited the fans even more.

Hindsight being 20/20, we should have ejected him from the stadium area. We didn't do that because this league REQUIRES an administrator to be present. We felt we were there for the kids.

Needless to say, I will NEVER work for that league again. The kids have other options for participating in a youth league in the area.