Playball,
Trying to understand your point. My nephew is not the subject of the post but only one small example. The point is many many hs coaches only care about themselves and not their players future (again not all, my son's hs coach is great as I mentioned). What many of them have put some kids through this summer is not make believe but nothing short of abuse. Your point seems to be that if you don't like the abuse don't play hs baseball at all. Either grin and bare it or leave. Very enlightened reasoning. I think one part of a teacher/ coaches job is to help some kids play on the next level. Do you think for the top kids that that goal is best reached on your summer field or in front of hundreds of college recruiters elsewhere? If you don't like me mentioning this fact about your profession how about the poor kid with tears in his eyes because his hs coach ripped him in front of his team simply because he wants to play college baseball? This instance is not isolated but pervasive and is not hearsay. I think you would like to keep these ugly facts about some of your brethren in the dark and your comments only suppport my point that some (again not all) coaches do this because they can.
BTW, its not about my son either, he's doing just fine thank you. It's about the abuse other fine kids have received at the hands of hs coaches this summer. It's a scandal.