Coaches gravitate towards

[RADcatcher]

This little Instagram snippet mentions some factors.

 

[Vertigo]

I agree - at every level coaches do have favorites. Sadly, sometimes the coaches can be manipulated by a player to think they are something they truly aren’t. This is where coaches need to tread carefully to not cause dissent among the rest of the team.

 

[Chilixa]

Of course coaches have favorites. It can play out in many ways. It generally means they get more chances to mess up without getting taken out. If a kid is already hit a favorite and they mess up that normally means a quick hook.


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[Rolling Hard]

Great coaches don't have favorites. They are above trivial stuff and will play the best players. I don't know who acarrol is but she is not one of my favorites.

 

[angispeds]

Coaches are human. It’s easy to like the kid who shows up works hard keeps their mouth shut is a good leader and knows how to win. Kids like this earn a coaches trust and have a longer leash when they mess up or have bad games. I don’t think that’s playing favorites it’s being good coach but if your the parents of the kid behind that kid then the coach has favorites.


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[Chilixa]

Great coaches don't have favorites. They are above trivial stuff and will play the best players. I don't know who acarrol is but she is not one of my favorites.

Yes they do. Often the best players are their favorites. Because the things that would make a kid a coaches favorite is generally the same stuff that would make the kid successful.


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[Vertigo]

Coaches are human. It’s easy to like the kid who shows up works hard keeps their mouth shut is a good leader and knows how to win. Kids like this earn a coaches trust and have a longer leash when they mess up or have bad games. I don’t think that’s playing favorites it’s being good coach but if your the parents of the kid behind that kid then the coach has favorites.


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Those are the kids you’d “think” would be the favorites.

 

[GunnerShotgun]

I like all my players or wouldn't have taken them on my team. I don't consciously have favorites, I hope they all succeed.

Statistics and talent determine playing time.

That coach is a moron.

 

[RADcatcher]

There was something other than a coach just talking about favoritism in that video, at least something I gleaned from it.

The coach mentioning players talking over the coach when the coach is talking. & when the coach is demonstrating players are distracted not paying attention. Those are not the way to get on the good side.

In a group situation like that a coach could be specifically sending a message to certain players. While letting the whole team know they are aware of it.

 

[Rolling Hard]

In general (not always), the players that can't focus or are disrespectful when coach is talking are some of the more mediocre players.