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New proposed coaching and athlete ranking system
Posted By: Don McCauley (69.136.38.178)
Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2012, @ 7:19 p.m.
Everyone,
Well, the usaw asked for options on this one and I am posting my opinion here of what the changes should be and what I think of what they are trying to do. I'm doing it here and on another forum so what I say won't be changed, as I have seen in the past, when just telling a board member my opinion.
First, I would say the changes made in athlete level ranking are pretty good and realistic. Of course, in true usaw form, they neglected to put the weight classes next to the qualifying totals, but I'm sure people can figure it out.
Now, the coaching ranking system proposed. I will first say that almost anything is better than the corrupt system that has been in place over the last twenty or so years, with modifications that meant nothing. Here goes(with add ons):
After a few minutes of screaming at the computer screen at the USAW proposed coaching level plan (test my technical expertise, my ass: who exactly would be on that panel?), I read yours. (Anthony Hernandez had a simpler, more honest plan that is on Glenn Pendlay's forum)
Your(Anthony) plan is simple, as uncorruptable by the many political coaches we have who couldn't teach a dog to bark(see, I'm still mad)and as rational as any I've seen. If you have produced, you are rewarded. The idea of judging it per the Level of lifter produced, rather than having the meaning be linked with your availability to (or past corrupted assignment to) coach on an international team is more reasoned. Simple and honest.
I would enter a caveat or two. I would say that for coaches who, such as in my case or in the case of a coach who hasn't been active at the levels earned in, say, the last 10 years, any coaching assignment to that same level would not be available until that coach has qualified for and shown he/she can do a service to athletes at lesser international event.
For instance, in my case, I would qualify immediately for the one of the international levels. But, I could not, in good conscience, take a job as a head or asst. coach on , say, an Olympic Team, because I have never been granted the chance to serve in those capacities in lower level teams. But this process of having been an international coach has been corrupted in the past and, in any case, has little to directly do with the development of athletes. As we all know, in the past, coaches simply bought athletes who were of higher level so their coaching levels would go up.
So, put a vote for your (Hernandez')plan in for me when you talk to these guys. And, by the way, I would be pleasantly suprised if anything as fair as your plan was adopted.
Now, here's another thing or two.
Are we going to eliminate the coaching level earned by older coaches when they got their athletes to levels before NAN testing was initiated? We changed lifting records on that basis, so it would be only fair to look at considering coaching levels in the same way and not recognize any coaches in the new system from that era achieving the levels they might seem qualified for.
Are we going to do something about the ongoing problem of big clubs simply assigning athletes to coaches who really don't coach them and those coaches rising through the levels that way?
DonMc
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