Met a friend for a beer who I haven’t seen in 30yrs he started talking about his son playing baseball at Conner HS freshman at the time they had a great season won a lot after that year most never played again never got any playing time one young man pitched a shutout he never pitch another game. I just laughed, I always thought it was funny when a parent would say I wish we would have sent him/her to another school I would think to myself yeah it would be different there lol.
We all know (later in life) there are a ton of factors that go into Coaching/playing HS sports I’ve had my share of talks with coaches good/bad but I like things to be out on the table. HS sports should just be thought of as good barroom conversation for them later in life.