How does one handle a coach that is too aggressive? My coach is too intense and I can’t read him at all. What can I do to have him ease up on the team? I’m not the only one feeling this.

I’ve had coaches/professors like that and most of the time it’s just their personality and they don’t realize how intense they come off or that they’re coming off too intense for the current audience. I mean, don’t get me wrong, sometimes they’re actually just jerks but usually saying something wakes them up to the fact that their approach is coming off, as you said, too aggressive. I’d talk to your assistant coach (or head coach if the coach you’re talking about is the assistant), explain the situation to them, and see if they can say something. In my experience coaches tend to take stuff like this more seriously when it comes from one of their peers vs. from someone who could be their son or daughter. If you know other people on the team feel the same way then I’d go as a group (three people max is sufficient) to talk with your assistant coach just so they can better understand the depth of the issue.