Looking for an area with paid coaches & a good environment.
Need advice - we currently live in a place where the "dad-coach bottleneck" at the 10U–14U age groups is exhausting. The issue isn't necessarily all dad coaches themselves (some are excellent), but where we are, roster spots, exposure opportunities, and event selections are influenced by relationships instead of performance. Its very apparent. For example, one of these big PG tournaments had a tryout and about 8 kids were incredible - but, the dads picked their sons and their friends and shockingly didn't win one game out of the 6 they played in another state.
My husband is active duty military and can pick our next move (this will be our last before retirement) - this wont be a decision based fully on baseball but we spend so much time there and with these people, it definitely will play into it.
Are there any areas with PAID coaches, high level teams, and a great environment where parents aren't comparing their kid to everyone else's kids. And, if they are, they are able to keep it in their head and not talk to the other parents about it.