User blog comment:XelNecra/Image and Role of Support/@comment-122.148.222.45-20121118215438

The problem is the language. We're calling them Supports, which is considered very wimpy when we should be calling be calling them Coach, which is considered cool and manly.

Nobody looks up to them waterboy of the team, but everyone respects the Coach.

Afterall, if you look look at the team closely and see it's it's Carries job to deal the most DPS, and and the Tank'srole to keep the Carry alive, etc, you'll see that it's a Coach that has not only the most important job, but also the most cerebral job.. deciding where and when the battles take place in the first place. He's the one placing green wards. He's the one that's clearing wards. He's the one that (should be) watching the entire map at once while everybody else is busy farming gold. So naturally he's the one that should be calling all the shots.

Shit, even the when a fight breaks out he's the one with most options. What wit the option of who to heal, and when to use a silence, and who to stun, and where to position, etc. And have you seen any of the new items yet? Between Shurelya's, Wraith Collar, Mikhael's Crucible, Randuin's Omen, Morello's, Kage's Breath, and Locket you might have four or five forms of activated cc/healing/anti-cc to worry about casting at exactly right monement. All the carry needs to remember is stay in the back and shoot at whoever is closest.

So yeah, nobody wants to be the passive water boy support, but a lot of people out there, especially nerds on the internet want to prove that they are smart, and playing as the Coach, and outsmarting the other Coach to get the most out of your team is the currently the best way that a LoL player can do so.