OMHA Dad wrote: ↑Tue May 27, 2025 10:10 pm
I live a long way from Aurora but I am bored during the intermission and this thread is an entertaining read. Just an FYI, our local association has a board full of self-serving coaches who prioritize their own teams at the expense of the organization. They used to have a rule against coaches on the board but they got rid of it.
When I played rep as a kid, I never had a parent coach. Only HL and select had parent coaches. This is a huge problem but unfortunately, there aren’t any non-parent coaches volunteering. Could be that they don’t want to deal with garbage boards or crazy hockey parents…
If they paid their coaches like they do in other sports that would motivate more people to want to coach and the caliber would most likely improve as well. Dealing with problematic boards and crazy hockey parents on their own time is not worth the headache for many people.