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Message: [QUOTE="pinotbear, post: 2969327, member: 258"] This is a pretty lazy, and, inaccurate way of thinking about it - if, say, a professional baseball player has a bad couple of years, is it the manager's fault, or the GM's, completely? If Tom Brady has a bad season, is it Bill B's or Josh McDaniel's fault solely? Of course not - it's a shared responsibility, and it will vary case to case. Sometimes it will be, mostly, the fault of the head person, and, sometimes, it will mostly be the player's fault. Sometimes, it's sheer fate, an outside influence that neither player nor coach can fully command. This is particularly true when you're recruiting teenagers, and coaching kids - society recognizes that they're not fully capable, fully developed, so why would you think that recruiting them or coaching them would be an exact science? You may have well-grounded opinions about playing time and player development that disagree with mine, Geno's or whomever, but, to knee-jerk blame everything on the coaching staff is to ignore the reality of life, especially when dealing with growing (physically, mentally, and emotionally) young adults. [/QUOTE]