No one ever wants to know a coach’s political beliefs for the same reason a chef never asks you about your method of preparing eggs. Chances are, the chef has spent years thinking about eggs: The proteins, the temperatures required, the different heats conducted through different materials, the methods and patience and delicacy required to turn the sometimes finicky, sometimes uncooperative strands of protein into something more than a nutrient goo, and yet less than a sheet of dry, crumbly pebbles of yellow pre-chicken on the plate.
To cook an egg for a chef is to run power as a football coach: Basic, but so much more than that, and indicative of how you do things generally.