re: Toughness Model

This generation is the problem, blaming tournament ball is convenient for coaches who get showed up by more experience players.
I'm saying this from experience, I've coached at different levels and won titles coaching in high school, I've heard other coaches in high school and college talk about tournament ball. Their pride gets hurt.
A season in high school consist of 30 to 35 games a year. Tournament ball consist of @ 120 games a year, that's 4 seasons of high school ball.
By the time a tourney kid starts high school he's played the equivalent of 13 to 14 years of high school games and if he's played at the top level for years he was coached by guys that's played in the pro's and knows things that his high school coach don't know.
Prideful coaches get embarrassed but I can grant you the majority of their starters or tourney players.
Parents are the problem not tourney ball as long as you have coaches that take care of the players first over winning.