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And they told your school members the truth. They had nothing to do with the ejection (although they have thee power to do that). But there absolutely was a "request from the officials" that the AD address the issue that was going on behind the bench with the fan. The man was hollering and pointing when they came over to give their call to the scorekeepers. One of the refs looked at the AD and nodded his head and pointed in the direction of the man behind the Jackson bench. That is not bogus. that is fact. And when the AD tried to talk to the man and ask him to calm down and go back to where he was sitting, he was non-compliant and belligerent. So he was removed. The refs are accurant in they did not request the fan to be removed from the gym, but after the AD tried to reason with him and saw he was getting nowhere, he then made that decision.
If the official told you what you say here, then he, or they, are are either misleading you or are having a tempory case of amnesia. That's not uncommon for officials to not want to stir up things anymore than they are, since it was all over and done with by the time they were supposely talked to by your people. Officials know that coaches vote and rate referees. They probably just wanted it to go away. It's not the end of the world. Fans get tossed occasionally, especially when they decline a request to be orderly at games. Cheering ones team to victory is one thing; running down five rows of bleachers to shout and point fingers at officials is another.

I'd like to correct a bit of exaggeration here.

The fan that was thrown out didn't "run down 5 rows of bleachers". He started the game directly behind the scorer's table, along with several members of his family. He didn't even move a step to get where he was. Also, the AD certainly didn't try to "reason" with him or anyone else. The AD told him and everyone else, with much finger pointing, "We're getting control of this game and you sit down or you're leaving!" He then told the LEO's that "he's leaving and if she says another word she's leaving too!", referring to a female fan.

There weren't more than 15 or 16 JCS fans in the whole house, and even if everyone of them were standing it shouldn't have presented a problem. If the particular fan was abusive, then sure, make him leave, but why point and gesture at the rest of us and tell us to sit down or leave? That's a gross over reaction, and one that should have left the AD embarassed.

The fans were upset that a JCS player had gotten a forearm to the chest by an Owl while the ref was talking to the two of them, and somehow a double technical was called. I don't condone abusive language to the refs, but I certainly didn't hear any of that, and if a ref can't take some heat from the fans he needs to find another way to spend his evenings. At any rate, the ref in question is LE himself and he says the refs didn't see any of this coming and that it all came from the AD.

It'll all blow over soon enough but I hope the AD conducts himself a little better in the future, for the school's sake.