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I used to coach with a dude that moved back to France to coach and he said there are mandatory classes and content based assessments that have to be taken by anyone looking to be a certified coach.
So I think things can be done to ensure the right folks are in front of these children.
That sounds like a great idea but to implement that there has to be some type of compensation involved and the $ just isn't there for a vasty majority of places and if it does become required we will be in a situation where schools and locations with more resources to pay coaches will have them all and other places won't .A lot of people think every high school coaching raking in dough like Texas football coaches. No sir. That's the exception not the norm. If wanted to make extra bread I would not be coaching. For example.
This past season in the summer from June-July 2 a day practices 5 days a week. 6 hours in the gym each day except for the week of 4th of July.
One school started conditioning and practice each day after school from 4-8. Tuesday/Thurs we hit the track Mon/Wed we lifted. 6-8 practice each day after. We had Friday off. Saturday morning practice from 11-1. Sunday off.
Once the season started basically the same schedule but now we have games, no more track days, still lifting 3 times a week, in addition to film sessions. We did the math between practices, coaches meetings, games, etc we spent on average 20-25 hrs per week coaching or doing something coaching related and that was for the months of Jun-Feb. We start back up in 2 weeks after spring break.
Granted we're extreme and a lot of schools don't do half of what we do but still at what level would you make "coaching" classes required?