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As someone in the coaching community for a quarter century, I have seen some parents cross the line. In short, parents, seeming to live vicariously through their children, can display behaviors that are totally out of character with their daily demeanor. There is a shortage of referees and officials natiowide. The behavior of the parents...and their children, are a major reason why imho. Should there have been legislation...I don't know. However, the issue of incredibly poor behavior does exist in my experience.

I've seen coaches physically go after other coaches and I've seen coaches physically go after fans....but I've honestly never seen anyone physically go after an umpire or official...Im not saying it doesnt happen, but we already have laws in place for that.

I just thing La Legislatures should have wasted any time on this "new law"

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Posted by jimmy the leg

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Posted on 6/4/19 at 3:21 pm to tgrbaitn08

I'm not sure of your time frame or number of games. My number of games is probably in the 5000 range. Physical threats are rare, but becoming less so. As for actual assaults, I can only think of 5 that I have witnessed. As for harassment, that is a totally different story. It is much more pronounced now. Hell, I have had to tell parents to leave facilities for harassing pre-teens calling games/matches for 4 and 5 year olds. Sadly, the parents showing their arse typically don't know the rules well enough to argue a call in the first place. I have seen refs/officials put parents in their place (quite effectively no less...including a 12 year old that straightened out an attorney), but most ignore them in order to de-escalate.

This post was edited on 6/4/19 at 3:31 pm

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