I'm coaching my kid's little league soccer team. I just had to do a training session from the Positive Coaching Alliance. Had a lot of stuff about giving encouragement and criticism in a 5:1 ratio, giving "compliment sandwiches," filling players' "energy tanks," and giving players a "mistake ritual" so they can move on to the next play. Which led me to think a lot about the value of shame and how we, as modern Americans, have lost shame as a valuable tool. And I'm worried that Flood has been leaning on the Positive Coaching Alliance playbook a bit too much.
Our OL needs to be ashamed of how they played last week, and the coaches need to be reinforcing that feeling of shame. We need some "Private Pyle sucking his thumb while his buddies do up-downs" kind of coaching. Just some psychologically traumatizing coaching techniques.
This isn't U6 soccer. These men are getting paid too much money to play like children.