• barsoap@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

    Coaches do have quite a large impact on teams, they’re the ones who study the opponent, formulate strategies, and then translate that into a training regimen.

    In so far as being a kid is playing sportsball the coach is primarily the genome, then with some distance culture (takes a village and everything), and then the parents. You can praise a parent for having the wherewithal to introduce their kid to spaced repetition software, you can’t praise them for the kid feeling inclined to learn six languages before the age of 14 that was all the genome spotting a niche, adapting a suitable individual to serve a role by making it excited.

    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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      8 days ago

      Yeah I don’t mean to imply that coaches or parents have no affect, just that they are commonly overstated.

      Unless you happen to be the coach of my cities football (us) team, then that coach is a psycho and is single handedly responsible for losing last playoffs.

      I guess thats sort of like a bad parent who tries to force stuff on their kids.