Everyone does realize this happens every single week during football season, correct?
And that it isn't limited to football?
No one here is naïve enough to believe that no team has ever had a crossing pattern or blitz screen in football, a "crossed" signal in baseball and a variety of shots in basketball, soccer, etc.
Players need to be held accountable, coaches need to be held accountable. Save the mock indignation for elsewhere.
What are you talking about? Do you think that video was a simple crossing pattern gone awry?
I suspect you are not that closely involved in youth sports any more. Every single parent of kids of every youth league in Connecticut that I am aware of has to sign a form regarding the behavior of themselves and their children, and that form includes a statement regarding respect of officials. Mock indignation? Those kids pledged to respect the officials before ever taking the field.
The attack was premeditated with the intent to injure the referee, and the kids knew it because they started making excuses for their actions almost immediately. I would expect that their town youth sports leagues would be distancing themselves as quickly as possible from that excuse.
I hope that at the least those boys youth athletic career is over, forever, for every sport.
There has to be zero tolerance for attacking refs.