while work ethic itself I don't believe has changed....
I think theres a greater percentage families/players have a different interpretation of what work ethic is now.
Workhorse players are harder to come by. Obviously the attrition factor with all the multiple teams ,especially in SoCal, spread out the percentage of hard-working players so each team gets a few. Yet we see the top teams have established work ethic. perhaps they only pick up players with work ethic to begin with. which I completely agree with!
So how do the average teams create and develop that dynamic? I do see coaches included in this lack of work ethic where they let the players be sloppy. why are you hitting grounders to athletes who are standing up rather than in their athletic position?! Have they lowered their standard of work ethic because thats the norm for them now because that's all they see?
reflecting on the past ( 20 years ago) developing work ethic was part of being on a team. families wanted to support holding a training standard to be part of making a team better. That interpretation of work ethic seems to have changed.
examples - parents calling a coach and complaining because players had to jog a mile at the beginning of practice.
are they complaining because the standards at school are now the kids get to walk the mile and take the entire PE class to do it and that becomes the normal standard of work ethic to them?
what's the feedback on this?