Telling parents what they want to hear/taking the point of least resistance/parents hearing what they want to hear ....
Our town park runs sports camps in the summer. My son attended when he was a preteen. I saw it more as daycare than instruction. We’re talking about 7-12yos.
The baseball camp was run by a local D1 coach and his players. Chatting with him one time I asked if parents ever ask him if their 7-12 kids can play college ball.
He laughed. He said he has a canned response ... “If he practices hard there’s no telling how far he can go.”
It’s a generic response to keep kids coming back each year. He’s not going to tell a parent the kid sucks, give up and try chess.
I heard parents at LL games saying this coach told them their kid had a shot a college ball.