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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not the PP, but we have seen the same cliquey mean girl crap with certain Mojo teams and coaches. I have personally seen unsportsmanlike behavior from some of their players and coaches. At one tournament, the Mojo girls were not taking their turn at scoring seriously - mocking the opposing teams (pointing and laughing at players making mistakes or errors, eating, checking phones) and worst of all missing score keeping points in the process.  When the coach of one playing team, as well as parents, pointed out the several-point errors in their scoring, instead of apologizing and fixing it and taking it more seriously the Mojo girls continued to more dramatically eat/check phones, point, sneer and smirk at the parents and other coaches and continued their mocking and laughing about it. Even worse, at one point the Mojo coach joined in laughing with them and apparently thought it was funny that the playing teams coaches were upset by this.

Seems to me that the easy fix is teams that exhibit unsportsmanlike conduct (be it on the court while playing, or in a support role to burden-share running the tourney) ought to be shown the door and forfeit their entry and fees.  Pretty sure somewhere buried in the fine print before committing money, participating, etc., is a general overview of expected behavior.  Don't understand why the folks running the tournaments would want that kind of nonsense to ruin the competition.[/quote]
I don't have any first hand knowledge of the MOJO behavior described, but have certainly seen plenty of disrespectful behavior and obnoxious behavior all around.  Certain clubs definitely have reputations for how their coaches, players, and parents treat officials and work teams (as well as for being bad work teams). I think USAV and CHRVA recognize the problem, but I don't have the sense they have been very effective in reducing the behavior. CHRVA put a "purple card" program in place a few years ago that allows for fine to clubs for poor behavior on the part of their spectators or other affiliated with a club. [url]https://www.chrva.org/page/show/6890541-purplecarddoc[/url]. I have seen a tournament director give a purple card to a team on one occasion and it was for parents yelling at a player line judge. The worst part was that it was in one of the flight brackets at the 2-day Chesapeake Showdown tournament so these parents were berating a 13 year old over a call that was probably a battle for 17th or 19th place out of 24 teams. It would be interesting to know whether CHRVA has fined any clubs since they put the purple card in place.[/quote]

DQ for the day the club associated with the unsportsmanlike behavior.  It'll solve the problem pretty quick.
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