[PersonalLegend]

Coaches can often be hardest on their best players because they see their best players not playing their best. 

We live in a weird world where our kids and some of our coaches have lost discernment between pushing for better play and just reacting to personalities.  A lot of my coaches growing up were grade A jerks on the field but there was a big difference between the guy being a jerk because he cared about you and your playing better and the guy being a jerk because he didn’t care about you at all. 

The Cal thing went on way too long. And I say that as a guy who firmly believes that on every D1 team there are enough disgruntled players whose dreams have been dashed to share stories that would get the coach fired in any classic HR regime.

[PersonalLegend]

Coaches can often be hardest on their best players because they see their best players not playing their best. 

We live in a weird world where our kids and some of our coaches have lost discernment between pushing for better play and just reacting to personalities.  A lot of my coaches growing up were grade A jerks on the field but there was a big difference between the guy being a jerk because he cared about you and your playing better and the guy being a jerk because he didn’t care about you at all. 

The Cal thing went on way too long. And I say that as a guy who firmly believes that on every D1 team there are enough disgruntled players whose dreams have been dashed to share stories that would get the coach fired in any classic HR regime.