I highly doubt that describes you. And let me say, there are good coaches who had DD go D-1. But there are some who live off of DDs success.Why did you have to bring me into this?
I highly doubt that describes you. And let me say, there are good coaches who had DD go D-1. But there are some who live off of DDs success.Why did you have to bring me into this?
Parents do what they think is right for their kids - right or wrong. They think non-parent means 'no-daddy ball' and less favoritism - but really actual daddy ball is just a symptom of poor coaching capabilities and the fact they have a kid on the team normally doesn't mean a whole lot overall. And age division doesn't mean a whole lot either - some of the best 18U teams in the country are coached by parent coaches - and some are not.
In the end, a good coach is a good coach - but coaching is like everything else a learned skill combined with experience and a certain level of natural talent or affinity for it.
Our org has a lot of ex-players coaching many of our teams - however when they start coaching for the first time out of college in our org we always pair either them up with a strong experienced assistant coach or have them start as an assistant coach (normally a parent). We do it because they need the experience and buffer so they have room to learn - and because it makes it easier to deal with parent issues by having someone expereinced or of the same peer age to the parents (i.e. the 23yr old fresh out of college is likely to have parents on the team who quite rightly consider her a kid still and will manipulate and bully her). After a season or two, they start to see if it is for them and we let them lead - however a lot of them continue to have a parent AC or manager to help with logistics or parent BS.
The worst situation is 'non-parent coaches' but the team is actually shadow run by bully parents in the background.
I would add one or two more questions. Is the coach actively working on becoming a better coach/ teacher? Does/ has he or she read books, attend clinics or use the internet to improve themselves and stay current?
I am not particularly fond of extremely overweigh, know it alls that yell a lot. I dont care what school their DD went to.
At the age and level the OP is talking about, whether or not the coach is actively educating themselves is not a primary concern to me.
I prefer to judge coaches by the skills they teach and the environment they create, rather than by their body size.