>>[Kyle Heise] Dual participation is a give-and-take between the high school program and the club program with a player in the middle. Choices have to be made by all parties and if there are some repercussions that go along with those decisions then I say, "welcome to life".<<
Amen.
The issue seems to me to focus around trust. The coach has to do the best thing for her or his team. The player has to do the best thing for the player. The coach and the player have to rely on each other to care about their secondary responsibility -- in the case of the coach the individual player's development and in the case of the player the team. The best possible situation is when both the coach and the player have a big common ground because they both care so deeply about the same set of things.
