What's up with these coaches??

Hi Charlie, Welcome to myLot! What kind of experiences have you had with coaches? Have you coached yourself? Played in sports and therefore been coached or are you a parent of a child who had been coached? I didn't check your profile so I don't know how old you are to venture a guess... When I think of two types of coaches, I think ONE- coaches who teach and TWO- Coaches who "recruit" or try to get the best players and only put their top players in and then put weaker players in only because and when they have to. I prefer, of course, coaches who teach.

Thanks for your response to my first comment:) Frankly speaking, i am still at college now, although is almost graduated, i did have some experiences of being coached, not personal ones of course, but with a lot of other boys when i was still young enough to be a member of our local school's football team. The coach himself had his own job, and coaching us is just his hobby, so it's a very comfortable and free time in my childhood. The coach did give speacial attention to one or two players, but no biased to the rest of us. Later on, i came across with many many teachers, but no coaches. Just as you said, coaches are the ones who are expected to endower sth useful, and that is, in my opinion, also what teachers should do. So, teachers are some kind of coaches:) And just as an old saying goes: Everyone is his own teacher. So, we coaches ourselves actually. Many people just hold strongly that coaches must be professional, must have some features unusual, must be different. but, we are different anyway. We can have disciplines, we can set us a goal, and we can also make up our mind to realize it. But, most of us just choose not to even think about it out of some reasonable reasons all the time, we always have excuses. Wooh, i said so much! Haha.

finally, it occurs to me that the "breaking them..." approach seems more viable, applicable, and useful to say the Marine Corps than it does to little league sports or high school athletics. David A. Reedy...

Yes, coaching is definitely a difficult job. Oftentimes coaches aren't even paid for their time. They have to listen to a dozen parents complaining and trying to tell them how to do their job and asking why their child didn't play a certain position etc. There are definitely two sides to the story of coaching.

Thanks Juany, I think discipline is absolutely necessary in coaching. That's a good think. But, unfortunately, I think some coaches cross the line where discipline because an excuse to bully and belittle their players. That is the behavior that I have a problem with. Thanks for your response.