The Hawks just dont seem like the Hawks of a few years ago, Teams are struggling .
They need to replace their parent coaches. They will continue to struggle until they do. The better players will continue to leave for teams where a dad isn't in charge.
Isn't parent coaches par for the course?
Hogan has allowed parents to coach but then once the team get to high school age he typically replaces them with a coach that has coached at the high school/college level. This has not been the case since he sold to 3D and why his product has been diluted.
The corporate acquisition for youth sports has typically included strict limits on payment for coaches, that's why you're seeing this. Why would Coach X show up for 9th grade Hawks when Kyle Harrison will pay him 3X as much to coach at Clippers, with slightly lower expectations and slightly less bonkers parents?
I could be wrong here, but 30 miles north, the reason Breakers (who had a decent run in the early 2000s) officially folded this summer wasn't (just) the wildly inconsistent product since 2018ish, but 3Step's acquisition in 2020 meant a very low ceiling on Breakers coach pay and resources (fields, indoor space in winter, etc). Given the coaches disappearing, kind of like, like Zingoes and True (who pay better than 3Step), Breakers parents generally did not play lacrosse in their day, and there weren't enough dad coaches to keep the club afloat. A club like Hawks has that Dad-Infrastructure to lean on....but it generally is not going to produce excellence.
