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The goal of any sport below the highest level it is played at is to develop the players. Development consists of
a) organized (team) instruction b) outside team development and c) playing competition which will challenge a player and hence accelerate their development. It is a coach's job to ensure a) and for the majority of the team c) If a few players are at a level whereby the competition level that will allow the rest of the team to develop, will no longer develop them, then the player(s) should move on to a better team which will continue to develop them (via competition and coaching) if that is their goal. In many cases this has nothing to do with the coach and all to do with b) and talent. The coach should be proud that a player has outgrown the team.
On a related note, Adrian Bejan at Duke (I actually went there for Grad School to work with him but he didn't have any positions open so I ended up working in an entirely different field) has used something called Constructural Theory to describe many things including the flow of talent (in this case in NCAA basketball)
a) organized (team) instruction b) outside team development and c) playing competition which will challenge a player and hence accelerate their development. It is a coach's job to ensure a) and for the majority of the team c) If a few players are at a level whereby the competition level that will allow the rest of the team to develop, will no longer develop them, then the player(s) should move on to a better team which will continue to develop them (via competition and coaching) if that is their goal. In many cases this has nothing to do with the coach and all to do with b) and talent. The coach should be proud that a player has outgrown the team.
On a related note, Adrian Bejan at Duke (I actually went there for Grad School to work with him but he didn't have any positions open so I ended up working in an entirely different field) has used something called Constructural Theory to describe many things including the flow of talent (in this case in NCAA basketball)
Universal Law Of Basketball
(ISNS) -- Many of the top-ranked teams competing in the 2011 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship tournament look familiar. A small group of teams -- including 2011 number one seeds Duke University and the University of Kansas -- have dominated March Madness for the past 30 years...
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