I do not remember this guy as a prep but interesting story on the Left Coast with a bunch of idiots who walked out on him and the guys who stayed.

this white board says a lot to me. Your coach is trying to make better people out of you. 10 years from now you  may look back form the rear of the unemployment line and figure out the lesson you should have taken away in HS. COach may be a jerk but he cares enough to tell you what you need to know.

This too:

Parents, however, believe their children have been unfairly criticized and abandoned by yet another coach in a school that has lost too many of them.

How many coaches do they have to go through before they get the message that it ain't the coach's fault?

Just had an interesting thought that might not have anything to do with what's happening out there:

If parents have to pay an extracurricular activity fee so their kids can play a sport, should they have a say in how the team is run? 

Under normal circumstances, tax dollars are lumped together with all the other funds the school receives and are used to help pay for facilities, coaches (who are also teachers) and equipment, in addition to books, buses, etc., so there's no direct correlation between what parents pay for taxes and what goes to athletics.  But with tax dollars often just covering essentials, many schools are charging students a fee -- many times, over $100 -- to play a sport.  If they have to pay a specific fee to participate in a sport, should parents -- and maybe students -- have a more direct say in the how the team is run? 

Not advocating a position; just asking the question. 

Totally agree about the possible trend toward club sports rather than HS sports.  If so, it will raise a lot of questions about the criteria businesses and individual donors will use to determine who gets their donations to play.  Will donors earmark funds for certain ability levels only?

If this happens, I'll hate to see it happen because the present system, for the most part, has served this country well for 80 or 90 years.  The only possible good that could come from it is that local high schools may increase focus on teaching lifetime physical fitness to a broader range of students.  

Change is hard sometimes, and for me it seems to get harder the older I get.   

It's already happening in Ohio, particularly with basketball, volleyball, softball and baseball. It has almost always been that way for soccer and lacrosse (which is not yet an official OHSAA sport).

I don't think a move toward club/private sports will have a significant impact on players at the highest level  in terms of future athletic opportunities-- colleges will find them. But, it could have a negative impact on them in other ways. And, in my opinion, there could be significant impact on kids who aren't elite athletes, their schools' teams and the school/broader community.

This is a rich topic and would make a great discussion over dinner sometime.