Interesting article

[o-line]

Hopefully high school coaches can incorporate this...

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/floor-seats-college-recruiters-pass-160841424.html

Yeah right, parents; Don't tell me how to raise my kids , but I sure as heck will tell you how to coach my kid, what position he should be playing, how I should use him, along with a host of other things I should know what his personal coaches have done to make him better. I smile , shake their hand, and know this kid will transfer by the end of the season, hopefully sooner.

[TeddyKGB]

but I sure as heck will tell you how to coach my kid, what position he should be playing,

this is a huge problem, parents have convinced themselves that they know what's best for their kid but they base that knowledge on a very limited sample. Most parents have one or two really good athletes, but coaches have seen hundreds and thousands of kids so they are much better at evaluating talent. Parents want their kid to fulfill his or their dream of being the star QB, pitcher or point guard and when a coach says its not in the cards they go to "the coach doesn't know" Few are far between are the transfers that actually pan out to be what the parent said and prove the coach wrong

[izne1home]

I smile , shake their hand, and know this kid will transfer by the end of the season, hopefully sooner.

this is a huge problem

In my opinion, it's a problem because the parents can now openly transfer.  If that transfer window was closed, and that parent's kid was absolutely going to be coached by O-Line one way or the other, that parent's attitude might be a little different.  Coaches have always had parents who know better, but now those parents feel emboldened and make threats to transfer.  In most cases, the coaches would probably help them fill out the paperwork.  The relationship is soured, and compounded when the kid gets home and listens to his father berate the coaches the kid looks up to.

Somebody explain to me how any of that is good for the kid. There is so much more a kid can learn from participating in sports and dealing with the adversity their fathers are so eager to eliminate.  This nonsense robs the kids of about 90% of the best life lessons on how to be a man and replaces them with staggeringly bad life lessons on entitlement and how to be a bitch. 

[izne1home]