I coached in HoCo for 5 years and having the fans opposite the team benches was always the rule. However, not all of the HoCo fields are set up for that and we had several issues with obnoxious parents sitting behind our bench and heckling our players and coaches...this was 6th - 8th grade! Literally almost had physical fights and the refs did end up flagging the other teams for this. Although we had a few "lively" parents over the years on our team we did fortunately avoid these types of embarrassing situations with our team. You'll never see such stunads as you will at grade school/middle school youth sports.