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I felt my responsibility as a coach was to improve individual performance which would result in improved team performance ... Arriving early to games/practices is not always up to the player...
Rules put pressure on the players, coaches and families... The laws of common sense and the ten commandments were enough... If you need alot of structure/boundaries, it probably means you've got to be more careful when you pick your players and families, or are a control-freak...
The system is not-perfect, I think there are more better coaches, better players, and better teams... But, winning is still more fun than not-winning... Convincing a weak team to come back for another weekend of a challenge they will struggle to meet is a difficult task for a coach, accompany that with a list of rules/expectations besides the norm and it will become ''not-fun''...
Many teams/coaches have a limited talent pool... All coaches/families want their team to be competitive...
The above was an opinion that has evolved over a long time, it was NOT how I felt when I started.... I did make changes quickly...
Ron Poole