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i was sitting behing parkersburgs bench when their coach turned around and told the students that they were not allowed to boo at a game. they were not booing there team, they were booing a call that was made but right before that the coach for p-burg was already crying about the same call. he had no right telling students they couldn't react in that way. when he cried the whole time his girls played sp. valley. for someone to call us classess, get real and face the fact sp. valley played harder and deserved to win the tournament.

Not only did Bobby Knight try this technique of intimidating refs. Dean Smith and John Woodson did it also. It is called gaining credit. You can make a ref look for someting the opposing team is doing wrong. Dean Smith did it by not raising his voice and Bobby Knight did yelling and screaming. The way a coach approaches it might be different but they are trying to gain the same thing.

Sometimes a good coach will try and intimidate refs. That is just good coaching. If I don't get this call he will think about it the next time. This is what happens in every sport. I don't think the coach from PHS is wrong for questioning calls refs make. That is part of the job. I said it earlier that I think the fans that come to volleyball matches are parents and I have not encountered anything ugly. I have felt welcomed from all the parents from apposing teams. I think SV has good team and everybody is trying to take them down. I am not from SV, but they should be ranked #1. Who won the Midland tournament?

BTW what was the outcome of the tournament (playoff matchups etc.)?? Im certainly not from PHS but Coach Harnish is an outstanding coach and his record obviously speaks for itself. He does try and intimidate the officials and sometimes opposing coaches. I don't blame him because the officials let him get away with it and more times than not they give PHS the benefit of the doubt on close calls. Although sometimes crossing the line, Carls intensity works for him, its amazing how he can get consistently good play out of often times average players. He reminds me of a famous coach that won a few national championships for Indiana!

It seems that some people confuse reaction to a coaches outbursts and officials calls(something that has happened for years), with fans booing the players on other team. Fans, as pointed out in another post, are usually parents and others that are close to the players so they are emotionally into the game. If you see a call you don't agree with, its natural to react. If a coach screams at the students cheering for their team, people are going to react. The Spring Valley fans were not disrespecting the Parkersburg players at all, they have a lot of respect for them as well as all of their opponents. Emotional outbursts toward the crowd by a coach, who should be focused on the game and ignoring the fans, is what is unnacceptable behavior. Coaches are not allowed to approach the official on the stand during a game, that is the job of the speaking captain ONLY.

I did not hear any SV fans being rude. I sat beside them thursday and they did not yell anything out of line. I watch them play several times and they have a big following. Volleyball fans usually consist of parents of a player and siblings. SV have a big fan base and it that is good for the sport. I love for these tournaments to take on a state tournament atmosphere. It is good for the sport.

Wow, I can't say I saw that, but what was your reasoning behind ALL the pool games?

In response to this statement I would like to clear up a few facts about this incident. The fans from spring valley are not morons but only reacted this way in response to Carl Harnish "Coach of the Year"'s very unprofessional behavior. The games were a battle and there were some controversial calls both ways but the rude comments and rushing the floor to the refs is uncalled for. The only person allowed to speak to the referee on the court is the speaking captain and he rushed the refs three different times. The referee should have given him a yellow card then a red card after that. He made some very smart remarks towards Spring Valley's head coach which should never happen because that is showing the girls bad behavior. I was also sitting near the parkersburg fans when this happened and I heard foul language being yelled across from gym from them. This post sounds very ignorant in the fact that if there is a controversial call every team's fans make a big deal about it and boo, which maybe should not happen but that is how much passion is felt from parents and fans from other teams. This post also clearly shows the type of person that would post it, a moron, because who is childish enough to start name calling on a message board that is supposed to talk about the girls and how well they are doing not meant to be negative and argumentative.