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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]High School and college coaches are there to win. It would be highly unlikely that the best 9 (or 11 for football, whatever) are not on the field at any given time.[/quote]

You'd be wrong.  Coaches have strong biases with "favorites".  Some kids can make a dozen mistakes while another will make one and get yanked.

Obviously, this isn't true with every coach and every school.  We're painting with a broad brush here.

But if you think politicking and bullshit goes DOWN as the stakes go UP, you're naïve. [/quote]

This is very true in our experience.

Also, for some sports, the criteria for what make a kid talented are more subjective.  In a sport like baseball there may be less room for judgment calls--if a player never gets any hits, it would be tough for even his most ardent fan to argue that he should be playing in place of a kid who gets home runs every at bat.  But in a sport like soccer, you have less sophisticated coaches who will happily pick a tall kid who runs fast but is utterly incapable of trapping a ball or making a smart play over a smaller more skillful kid who could well help the team a lot more if the coach knew how the game is meant to be played.[/quote]

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