Originally posted by Unregistered
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You have to be a control freak much of the time to succeed as a HS coach. A season has the potential to become absolutely chaotic if you don't exert control. That being said you still need captains. The two concepts are not mutually exclusive.
I think the importance of captains vary from sport to sport but from level to level.
For baseball and softball it is less important.
Hockey very important. For HS sports in general it is more important than in the pro and even college ranks. This is because with 14-18 year olds you have widely variable levels of maturity. The older the players are the more this evens out.
To me this would be like arguing that having a Class President should be abolished and that the entire student body should be co-Presidents. If you have the right people in place these roles are important places for students to learn how to use liasons to authority and to also understand whether they like it or not that throughout their lives that they are going to occupy a certain niche in the various hierarchies that they will be involved in. I know people who are Elders in a Church but that are janitors at an elementary school. I know people who are CEO's but are perfectly happy being a "quiet man" bass player in a band on weekends.
HS is a place to learn how to deal with all these kinds of situations in life. L-S is really not accomplishing anything worthwhile by doing this other than appeasing a few parents who can't deal with their kid not getting a "trophy". Given my past but admittedly limited experience with parents from Sudbury when my kid played for Boston Lightning I can't say that I am really surprised. Obviously it is hard to judge based on the behavior of 12 adults but it is what it is.
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