I can see how having different perspectives is good...I guess we got lucky because we had other trainers come in sometimes to run our practices, one was the U15 National Coach, and we also had an assistant coach who was a college player who'd run practices and stuff, plus we all had JV and Varsity, so we got multiple exposures anyway.
I did love the fact that we literally became a family though and the relationship we had with our coach was pretty phenomenal once we hit U13+.
And, of course, correlation does not mean causation, but MPSC had better records back when that was the norm. I also think it can be a good experience for new coaches, to grow with a team and learn their strong points and weak points and how to adapt with different age groups.
Gender, I won't argue about, lol. I think you have to be predisposed to being able to coach either. I don't think I could handle boys, they'd be running suicides all the time because I don't have the patience for male posturing and cheap shots or fighting.
