I figured it up one year and it came out to around 30 Cent per hour. Many coaches are in that same boat especially the ones that care. They are the ones that constantly put in the extra hours and extra work to build a program and provide the best possible situtation for their players.
So if your getting paid peanuts why would you want to be around kids that you do not like? Why would you want spend your time working with kids you do not like? Why would you want to go the extra mile for a kid who has a bad attitude? And why would you want to put your other kids in a situation where they had a team mate like this as well? To win a high school game?
Here is what happens when kids realize that a certain type of kid is not going to be allowed to be a certain type of kid in your program. They either decide not to even try out in the first place. They put on a good face in front of you but eventually the true person comes out. They make a concious effort to change in order to be in the program.
You learn from experience. When I first started coaching everyone came out. We were a school at that time with about 600 students and we would have 50-60 come out. Within a couple of years we were down to 35-45 coming out. Now the school is around 1,100 students. We have around 40 come out each year. We dont have any bad attitude kids come out. We already know all of them from the summer and fall workouts. The ones with bad attitudes quickly learn they are not in a place for them.
The first thing you are going to notice about a player is his ability or inability to play the game. The very next thing you are going to bore in on is what type of kid is he. Sometimes its at the same time depending on what happens. If a program "coach" ignores the type of kids he allows in his program for talents sake only he will never build a solid winning program that teaches not only baseball but life lessons through baseball. He will have constant turmoil and misery. And he will be miserable most if not all the time. And so will his players. It simply is not worth it.