Odds are that's a foreseeable temptation sometime during the experimentation years. Tournaments, celebrations and free fun time defy supervision. By the time youth are in high school, especially athletes, they have been exposed to the adult versions of fun time and celebrations. Coaches like Newport's Kermit Foltz resign, voluntarily or by request, more often over players' poor choices of behavior than poor skills. Let's face it.
Tournaments are for celebrations and fun time and fertile imaginations.
After 19 problem-free trips, water balloon fights broke out while Newport High School was participating in the Los Angeles Times Orange Holiday Classic. A water balloon fight in a hotel was followed by another outside. What followed was a very interesting and innovative plan for timing the suspensions, ensuring that varsity players would be on the floor for each game. The duties of supervision don't get more demanding than during tournaments. It's more than time, location, numbers, attitudes, results of games - it's building a team and offering trust.