The bottom line to me is that if the seats immediately behind the opposing team's bench are reserved for fans of that school--as is done at UND--you don't have anywhere near these kinds of problems. If somebody is heckling you from 50 or 100 feet away, that's one thing. But when that person is 5-10 feet away and practically in the coach's face, it's a little different. I imagine if a large group of UND students were sitting 5 feet behind Amy Ruley, things would get pretty ugly, too. Fortunately, UND reserves that section for fans of the visiting team. I don't think it's too much to ask for NDSU to do the same.
We have Bison students sitting behind the visiting teams bench. There was a verbal/touching confrontation etc between the UND coaches and Bison Fans last weekend. We at NDSU get a lot of complaints from the school to our north. What is the seating like at Montana and other Division I venues for visiting schools.
