It's banned in Washington State as well. The recently retired most successful coach in the state got around it by opening his own training facility and hiring coaches not affiliated with his school to teach the players. He's still wasn't allowed in the area when his high school kids were training, but he could indirectly direct the offseason training for his players and get immediate feedback on how it was going.
The guy won multiple state titles at the highest classification level, but he was really a love him or hate him coach. The parents whose kids were "in" with him loved him but it didn't take much to fall out with him and then you're buried the rest of your high school career. I knew one kid that sat the bench his entire career because he was a chubby kid until his freshman year and the opinion of him was formed when he was in middle school. He still managed to land on a college roster because of his summer play. Another kid, that was a fantastic catcher, gave up baseball for a year during his freshman year; he just burned out because his parents pushed him so hard. He tried to get back into his sophomore year and despite being the best catcher on their roster (by far), he played JV as a sophomore and sat the bench as a junior before giving up baseball for good. Completely unrelated to this, but good god the stories about this coach are infinite. People still bought houses in his district so their kid could play for him because he coached 16u and 18u team USA and had as many connections as anyone. He put a ton kids that had no business playing D1 in D1 programs simply because of who he is.
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Originally Posted by Flasch186
Any advice would be great, but we have a problem Aiden‘s pitching coach that he throws with typically on the weekends is also the pitching coach for the varsity team and really good friends with the head coach and that was great for a long time but Aiden has completely lost the strike zone and has just been completely discombobulated by all the different directions and he’s getting from this coach and other coaches and passing or before he goes out there and he’s just a mess. So we got a reference to another coach who seems to be good and he pitched with him one night last week which is great because nights are better than the weekend obviously and now Aiden really wants to pitch with this new coach, but we don’t want him to offend the team coach. There was going to be a natural break. Come June 1 when Aiden goes to a Pitching laboratory let’s call it for two weeks and so we were just confused as a break but the coach has Aiden in his stable. Let’s call it and he gets paid so I’m sure he likes that who doesn’t. So anyway, we have to navigate how to not pitch with the pitching coach from the school, turn down his scheduling requests, and go to the new coach without pissing the old Coach off and I don’t know what to do and he doesn’t know what to do so for example he pitched with him today and it was not good and he even said that the old coach just tells him to do so much stuff that he doesn’t do any of it and he’s regressing here at the end of the season. Ugh.
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I don't know how sensitive to these things the school pitching coach is, but I'd just be honest and tell him you want to give Aiden a chance to reset for a couple of weeks, clear his head, and get a different voice before jumping back in with the school coach. Most of the trainers my son and I worked with were very understanding and expected players to work with different people. As far as development goes, it's a really good thing. You can't rely on one voice and a player has to learn how to learn from different people.
If you know or have a feeling he's sensitive to these things disregard the advice above.