Seriously, high school coaches are just high school coaches. Some are great and really want to develop their players. Others just want to reward the kids they've known a long time. They might know a lot; they might know next to nothing. One thing I have learned in DD's high school "journey" is that you can't predict what a coach will do, and the only thing you can to is work to be one of the set seve -- now eight -- that get the PT next year.
I have very limited experience observing travel ball coaches, but... all this applies to them, too.
I have seen some stuff that has just horrified me from a "knowing the game" standpoint. Stuff that was so bad I've had to tell my players privately "Look, I'm not criticizing anything else about this coaching, but he is 100% wrong about this rule. You need to know that."
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