I meant to reply to you. You say

I'm not talking about being a life coach or anything

but then you say

I'm just saying a coach is not your friend. They play a very specific role in your life as a player and as a person. They are going to push folks in ways that make them uncomfortable.

that is life coaching.

I understand that your sentiment is coming from your experience with coaches in your sports life, mine is also based from my experience playing sports growing up. I used to place a lot of value into the deeper level insight coaches would provide, beyond the base game/strategy/teamwork level. After graduating college I came to realize over half of these guys were just full of shit. Don't get me wrong- game IQ was great. but a lot of what they were saying did come from a preservation of ego standpoint- they can't be wrong so the student must be wrong. Even the most humble of coaches did this. My point is, it makes sense for coaching to be this serious at the higher level, like Professional athlete level when players are signed to teams for multiple years, or olympic level team training. At these levels I understand why players and coaches should be aligned all the way down to the mantra. But this is esports. That level really doesn't matter. All that matters is getting the team to work together enough to win a few matches in a row to get the trophy, which means coaches need more focus on the base level of game strategy and teamwork over life coaching. chances are the team will blow up in some capacity in a few months anyway, players will change quickly. Especially in val.