I just don't think that there are enough quality experienced dedicated paid coaches around that are willing to coach purely other kids for the pay they get. Agreed that some parents are not qualified to be a coach and teams that have more than 1 or 2 parent coaches are inexcusable. But if I were a highly succesful college or HS lax coach, why would I pay someone less qualified than me to coach? I'm not a parent coach. My girls have had parent coaches (shouldn't coach to begin with) that have negatively affected them big time and also paid coaches that just couldn't show up consistently because of their full time jobs or not good enough. They also have had parent coaches that are providing them top notch training and mostly fair. It's not like there are many club options out there when you have to consider the proximity, the skill levels and the training. We just have to look at the trade-offs. Parent coaches are necessary.
To have non parent coaches who show up consistently is a dime a dozen.
