AhiPoke, and your basic observation is why good, strong administrators are needed and necessary.

Maybe it's about setting solid groundrules ahead of time.  Or zero tolerance rules regarding heatedly approaching coaches, or some sort of strictly adhered to mechanism for dispute resolution.

This situation is one where there didn't seem to be any sort of rules enforced, nor mechanism in place.  For it to get that far out of hand meant there was a breakdown on the administrative end.

And, here's why it's needed in football and other college scholarship sports:  They involve $80.000-$300,000 propositions.

Maybe kids of misbehaving parents should have been either heard and if right, problems addressed, or invited to have their child removed from the team, either volunatrily or involuntarily based on their future conduct.

I don't know how cancelling the season made things safer for the Coach or the students, if in fact, the problem is a or more than one parent with anger problems.