My son had a great high school coach, a teacher, old school guy, did all of what the OP suggests and what Cabbagedad says. He was happy to talk about college recruiting, but what he knew was mainly local. He had a group of long-time assistant coaches, and then also hired young guys each year (usually have 3 teams). In addition to the above, he ran workouts twice a week in the summer, and since most kids' travel teams were based out of town, all the serious players (i.e. varsity starters) showed up to those practices to get work in. The serious kids also did a lot of stuff outside of school. The summer camp was well-run and very popular, and he hired players to work it (they had all gone to it as kids). With all that, even though almost all players bought into the system, the team was only as good as the players who happened to be playing that year; he would maybe have two D1 players on the field together every 2 or 3 years. But I think that most kids felt that they had been given the opportunity to accomplish as much as they could.