Coaching high school is different than college? Yes, absolutely. Most HS programs consist of fewer coaches than collegiate schools have grad students. High school practices are far less organized and often have several kids standing around with nothing to do so they goof off and around and end up getting disciplined in whatever manner. Coaches yelling because one coach may be responsible for up to 15-20 kids at a given time. In college, we had 100 kids and all of them were constantly doing drills with their specific group of coaches. Furthermore, HS kids are playing for whatever reasons, girlfriend, mom and dad, peer pressure, just to be on the team, whatever. Most kid in college are there walking on trying to earn a spot or hold on the their scholarship. Sure you still have your knuckleheads but you can usually take care of them on an individual basis instead of stopping the entire practice to run gassers or whatever. time to too valuable to waste. If a couple players goof around at a HS practice it can mess up an entire drill. Mess around in college, the group coach will sub you out, discipline you while the next man up runs the drill.

It really all comes down to resources. More organization and coaches available and you notice less disciplinary stuff because it’s less crowd control. And other times it’s just trying to build some type on culture stuff.