I've coached travel ball for 14 years, only the last three have been my own kid. It is a lot of fun. It also is cut throat. I hate the end of the season when tyrouts happen. I have been the coach that has the middle team where kids get moved up and down from, so never the same group each year. It sucks. We are staying in a school feeder league,s which has some benifits, own indoor facility, program focus, coaches philosophy, etc,but the head HS coach has his kids play in a different league for better exposure so there is some disconnect.
Love the sport, hate the politics. I'd rather coach Johnny that drops a fly ball and smiles than Brad that fields a ground ball and has no emotion.