[Jon Stratis]

There have been a few incidents while I've been volunteering that I've talked some kids down. if you just saw transcripts, those teams would probably have been deserving of this rule, but I never, not once, felt the need to escalate it to that point. They were upset, emotions running high, and just needed a chance to vent some so they could get things under control. I was always happy, in those situations, to be the person they could vent to, away from the field and the refs.