[2elijah]

Coaches who let parents have a say in how their programs are run do not
win. New coaches understand this and sometimes overzealously "lay down
the law." Kids who are used to sharing team information with their parents, starters or not, find themselves between a rock and a hard place: Loyalty
to the new coach and his rules? Or give in to the parent who wants "to
know what is going on with the team and his kid?"

"What about the children?" becomes the rally cry for these snubbed parents.
"I pay my school taxes." "The new coach isn't one of us." "All I want is for
the coach to treat my kid fairly and respectfully."