2008-09 WCOA Policy & Procedure on Player or Coach Ejections:
After an ejection, the official who ejected the
player or coach must:
1) Fax,
within 24 hours, to the FHSAA a copy of the Unsportsmanlike Conduct Incident
Report Form (352) 344-5043 (if an FHSAA member school)
2) Fax,
within 24 hours, if it is a School District of Hillsborough County school, a
copy to the Director of Athletics of the SDHC (Laness
Robinson)
3) Fax,
within 24 hours, a copy to the Vice President (Jeff Albers)
Failure to
fax to the FHSAA within 24 hours of an ejection subjects you to a $100 fine.
The Assignment Officer is available to help you through this
process. The WCOA should never get a call from a school's athletic director
telling us that he called the FHSAA and they have no record or report of an
ejection.
If the FHSAA calls, that means an official not only failed
to send in the ejection report within the allotted time period of 24 hours, but
that several days have passed.
2008-09
FHSAA Officials Guidebook:
505 Policy on Crowd
Control:
FHSAA policy requires the home school administration be
responsible for the control of spectators during an athletic contest and
recommends that the home school secure uniformed security to assist with this
responsibility. However, the officials assigned to officiate
a contest are responsible for the conduct of the contest. In the event a
spectator or spectators interfere with the conduct of a contest or cause an
official to become distracted through continual, unrelenting verbal abuse, the
official should immediately stop the action and report the spectator or
spectators to the home school administration or the nearest uniformed security
officer and ask that they be restrained or removed from the facility. If the
home school administration or uniformed security is unwilling or unable to
comply and the official does not believe the contest can be safely continued,
the official must declare the contest ended at that point. Under no
circumstances should an official ever confront, challenge, rebuke or threaten a
spectator, or make gestures of any kind toward a spectator before, during or
after a contest.