You are giving club coaches too much credit saying they know their customers. If they did, owners and/or owner-coaches wouldn't have dad coaches who play their less skilled sons over other players who are in fact the actual clients while the coaches' kids play for free. It's been discussed in this forum before, but it is rampant at Madlax and I can tell you the "daddy ball" pisses the parents off WAY more than holdbacks.
Response: Well yes that is a good point.
Show me a sport, any sport, that isn’t dependent on parent coaches. I don’t coach but this is just one of many factors that parents must weigh when joining any team. Without parent coaches there wouldn’t be enough teams to satisfy the demand. Maybe true that in many cases sons are given preferential treatment but that dynamic exists in all sports at all levels.
