Completely off topic and unfair corlay.
So who makes a better coach, some aging parent, usually dad, in the stands who never played a day in his life? Someone who understands it, simply, what, from watching videos and sitting in the stands, snarking like sports talk radio? Anyone can do that....boy I think everyone should sign up to coach any sport they see.
When does that former player get a chance, when the dads are 80 and still holding on, having to control everything because "they know better"? When does 'she' get to learn her game? Give me a break, they know the game, but you show no respect for them. No one says this sort of thing in baseball, which my boys are in... They let the recent players coach all ages. And the comment about age groups is silly. In fact, the only teams they will give a former player or a female for that matter is 8u and 10u..... Read the stats, only about 20 percent of TB coaches are women, and it goes down as the ages go up. But it's changing, and the former players are taking over.
I did not want to hijack Doug's riseball thread, so I thought I would start a new one....
The reason there are more parent coaches than former player coaches is $$$! I have coached, or helped coach, my DD's TB team since 8U rec ball. I have never been paid a dime, and it probably cost me more money to coach than other parents because the coaching staff would routinely buy equipment or help "scholarship" players who's parents were struggling. I would not trade my time coaching for anything, but how many former college players are going to spend that much time and effort with ZERO compensation? And when a team plays TB who is going to pay the former college players travel expenses - hotels, mileage, food?
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