Having players avoid bad culture spring sports?

no. and doing so will only hurt you in the long run... kids talk, other coaches hear it, complain to the AD...you get the shaft for telling kids not to go out for other sports. 

and also ensures you will never get a good reference from that school when they fire you.... because they will fire you. 

...nothing says "hire me" like "discourages children from playing other sports." on your record. 

Long story short, no. We’ll never tell a kid not to participate in a sport or competitive activity.

If we can find out specifics of what negative things are being enabled in other programs, we’ll try to rail against it when we have our time with the kids but not mention the other sport specifically.

For example, our baseball team had a ditch day a few years ago and they posted a video of themselves drinking liquor and smoking at the beach during school hours. Our HC used this as an opportunity to preach about how digital footprint will follow you forever, college coaches will see it, etc.

No. I would not do that. I have steered kids who were not happy playing baseball to track. But never told them not to play a sport if they want to.

it is spring for goodness sakes. Great time to “row the boat”.

Not that the consensus hasn't been established, but I will share my thoughts as well. I played at a school where the basketball coach was notorious for steering his players away from football and we didn't have many multi-sport athletes. About 8 years after I graduated, I'm coaching at a school in the conference and my alma mater made a deep playoff run. Now, at this time, he did have a group of multi-sport athletes and four of his five projected basketball starters were also football players. I heard from several different teachers and coaches at my alma mater that he was visibly upset the Monday after a playoff win because it was also the first day of basketball practice and he would be without these four kids...

After having experienced it and seen it for myself, I could never do this to another coach no matter how bad I thought he or she was.

I'm loving it now because of the consistency, it was funny, then annoying, but dude took the criticism and kept charging through the breach, now it's double hilarious

I would say get a bunch of copies of that book to mail out to coaches you as a joke, but that could get expensive

It also helps he is changing his delivery a bit.. it seemed like he was just copy and pasting for a bit... I will give him credit.. he is consistent

For discussion sake....saying a program has a bad culture is one person's opinion. Just because the OP thinks it's a bad situation doesn't mean it actually is especially if he's not at that sports practices everyday.

I have been tempted to do so because Legion baseball is a parasite in this some areas of this state but I've always kept my trap shut.

It's not your place to make that determination unless you are the AD or an administrator. Coach your team and let the other coaches coach theirs. If the kids pick up some bad habits from other sports, then your high standards and expectations should get the kids back on track really fast once your season starts.

You can try and package this however you want. But, at the end of the day, the perception is going to be that you are running down other programs so you can keep the athletes for yourself, regardless of your (ill-conceived) intentions. 

Obviously the general feeling has been established but I'll throw my 2 cents...

At my HS, which was small, most guys played 2, if not 3 sports. Our Football and Bball programs were really successful (semi's in football, undefeated conference season in hoops) but our baseball program was a joke. We won a lot because of talent, but no where near where should have been for most of my career. Our senior year myself and a couple of other guys really took it upon ourselves to try and change the culture. Great story, we had practice the day before our first round playoff game, and our HC ended it early because, and I'm not $hitting you, because he had to go to an all you can eat shrimp and corn on the cob picnic.. I wish I was making this up.

The seniors took it upon ourselves to scramble enough balls and bats together to keep practice running, because the HC took all the gear under the guise of liability, and continued to go through our normal pre-game practice. The baseball team has been on a pretty good run since... There's more that goes into that, including better commitment, good talent, and eventually a new HC, but I like to think we had a hand in changing that culture a bit.

I think you hope that the values you instill in your guys during the summer and fall, can carry over to other sports and help them be successful, or at the very least, your guys stay at neutral and don't take any steps backwards.

Here's the reality; other sports with poor cultures will eventually correct themselves. I'll expand upon my earlier statement. I coached in an area where the Legion baseball coaches wanted the kids specializing; they set up a "fall baseball league" and told kids that they'd better be playing year round. We had several very good football players quit to play fall baseball as they were fed b.s. about "going pro" and D1 scholarships.

One kid was a varsity starter as a sophomore and also a NATIONAL CHAMPION wrestler. He quit both because they Legion coaches had him believing that he was going to be drafted as a pitcher right out of H.S. Unfortunately, his parents fell right into it too. We tried to talk them out of it (without trashing baseball) but they were adamant.

Long story short, the kid specialized in baseball for three straight years and ended up with a full ride to an NAIA school. His shoulder and elbow were shredded from playing so much baseball and he lost his scholarship within the first year as he needed surgery.

I ran into him a few years later and he told me that quitting football and wrestling was a terrible mistake. The same story came out of other kids and parents, kids stopped participating in fall baseball. Many of them still competed in Legion ball but they quit specializing.