[Pantherdreams]

Lots of interesting stuff here:

*To the initial point you need to take care of business when business needs to be taken care of. The valid counter argument to that concern is you will occasionally have a coach that falls out the crazy tree no matter what you do, but that if you are professional, experienced and work with coaches there won't be any T situations that escalate from a manageable situation or manageable people.

*There is some validity IMO re: the difference between coaching eras. Between prevalence of club ball and changing culture around sports, the length of a coaches tenure and the type of person you have coaching is often different today. In the past most school coaches were teachers who coached to balance out income or because they were committed to the school, community in the long haul. They also had their careers tied to kids, public service etc. So their experience, accountability, and general values would be very different from someone who is just coaching basketball, or someone who's day job is a lawyer/day trader/sales rep etc. Lack of long term investment, relationship building and educational values impacts the type of role models and coaches we have and should expect.

*The flip side of the differences is you've got a lot more career coaches now. People who are trying to climb the ladder or maintain their status as coach because that is their career or families lifestyle. They are less likely to accept officials who walk in with an attitude of its just an X game, or officials who impose their value set on a particular level/gender/style of play. These coaches will on the other hand be very aware of public perception and their position so will make decisions based on that.

*Finally as always there are generational differences. We see it in the discussions on ESPN about players and legacy and see it in the gym. You've got a modern game being more and more driven by stats, analytics and stars. That trickles down whether we like it or not. Coaches and their players are going to be less concerned about the rightness or wrongness of a call relative to managing the game or keeping the game played a certain way. The impact on the record, stats, or their star will drive their emotive responses.