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Originally Posted by gsf23
Very seldom though am I going to have an extended conversation with an assistant. I will give him/her a quick explanation and won't go much further than that because it has just been my experience that as soon as I get done with the assistant, I have to turn around and go through the same rig-a-ma-roll with the head coach. To me, that is counter-productive.
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On many teams, the "head coach" is more an operations manager than a game manager. Some teams have coaches with specialty areas. In your case, you would refuse to discuss a pitching issue (say, an illegal pitch call) with the pitching coach? That is, IMO, counterproductive.
To the contrary, I will have one conversation when appropriate; it is up to the team to send the most appropriate representative, because we
won't go through the same conversation twice. If the head coach wants to participate he needs to 1) control his assistants, 2) be the one who does request time and approach me, or 3) he can get the explanation from the assistant who did.