Isn't it a coaches job to decide what position a player plays?

I obviously direct this question to the barrage of "what position should I play?" questions.

Not only is it borderline impossible to make anything more than an educated guess on the question without actually seeing the player in question preform, an actual coach that's probably had a decent amount of experience with the game is far more likely to give the kid a good answer than the typical cast of characters on Yahoo! Answers.

I guess you could say that they want to know what positions to try out for, but even still you'd be FAR better off going to the coach and saying "this is what I got, what should I do?"