Kids don't remember wins/losses but they remember bad

coaches. I couldn't tell you the record of any of my teams (even HS) growing up but I remember all of my coaches and what type of coach they were.

My son has played travel baseball for 6 years and he even remembers opposing coaches who were awful. Never remembers the players but a coach who's a jerk stands out to him.

We played 3 years (a year too long) for some bad coaches who would harp on kids for execution in the game but never covered it in practice. This was 7yo, 8yo, 9yo baseball so the concepts needed to be taught. They told kids at the tryout that "they weren't there to develop kids, they wanted kids who are already developed."

We scrimmaged that team a week ago and beat the snot out of them with our well-coached positive team...felt good.