Yeah a couple of years ago when my boy was on AJV's 18U team, Mick was hired there as an advisor to evaluate the coaches. He would just walk around or sit out of the way where most people didn't notice, watching practices or tournaments and sizing 'em up. One day my kid came home from practice telling me about this guy who pulled him over during practice and said he'd been watching him, and offered him some great middle tips. He went on and on about how cool & friendly he was, how much he knew, how well he explained things in a way that was easy to understand, and how quickly he corrected some things that my son's coach never even seemed to notice. I knew he was talking about Mick and told him to google 'Mick Haley'. He got all excited and said "Yeah, that's the guy". I told him to keep reading and look at Mick's resume. He was flabbergasted. Mick interacted with my kid a few more times that season, and to this day he still talks about Mick and how lucky he was to even have been coached by him just a little bit.
His evaluation of my son's coach (we'll call him AK)? Mick pulled him aside one day and told him he owed the boys & their parents an apology. Said that with the collection of talent on that team, winning only the one Baton Rouge Block Party tournament was a massive underachievement, and that he should have had them competing for the 18U national title as a top seed vs scraping our way in, and gave him some tips to help improve for the rest of the season. AK blew him off. Yeah ... fucking nobody AK blew off Mick fucking Haley's advice, followed by another predictably mediocre finish in Vegas. AJV jettisoned him the following year, and suddenly started putting a lot more investment into their boys program on all levels. Little consolation for us, though. Beware Coach AK, all ye with kids in the clubs. He's still in Austin, at a new club that's just a couple of years old. /csb
tl:dr: Mick is 100% certified BMF.