Another Antonelli video runs over. Lol.
What I like is players that become youth umpires. They learn the rules and get a better understanding of the flow of the game. I know when I started doing rec games it did that for me and made me a better coach.
Agree 100%. When I was a rec league president, I wanted to make one of the requirements to be an All-Star coach is that they had gone through basic umpire training and umpired a couple games. Never did.I've always felt, at a minimum, varsity softball coaches should be required to take a modified form of the same training the officials take. Certainly they don't need to know EVERY SINGLE rule there is - I've been working 6 years and there are still things I mix up after a while - but it would certainly clear up when a defensive coach yells out how the "runner obstructed his fielder" (vs. interfered with) or know basics about the appeal processes (or what can be appealed), for example.
My guess (and this may not apply to your daughters team but I'm sure it very much applies elsewhere) is that the ladies are not allowed to fail. The coaches do not allow them to make their own decision for fear of failure so they are tethered to the coaches direction. How would a player become competent in their own decision making without being able to actually make their own decisions without fear of failing (which may lead to being yelled at or benched)?
Good luck teaching this: