I'm involved at VC level in VIC and i have no coaching accreditation, its overrated in my opinion

I know coaches who coach ABA level with no accreditation!

It's more for beginner coaches to get a grasp of the game and the basic principals.

Gundad this is exactly the case. Just because you've done a level 2 course doesn't mean ur a L2 Coach. You do have to be coaching at a certain level, for certain number of hrs and attend certain courses, run courses etc.

I'd disagree that courses are a waste of time. The game changes rapidly, different trends and practices occur every few yrs, different styles come up and you need to stay ontop of your game, just like when you were a player.

People who say they don't need coaching courses and don't need to improve their knowledge are normally smart ar*se, sh*t coaches. Hell at my course I had Jan Stirling, Neil GLiddon, Simon Pritchard, the physio from the AUstralian Opals and others. If you reckon its a waste of time you are full of yourself.

But doing a course doesn't make you a good coach!!

Then explain how the coaches attending these courses are the ones screwing up junior development these days? Too much emphasis being put on running offences and structure rather then putting the damn ball in the hoop.
Running away from the basic style of basketball and running transition and instead concentrating on running offences and trying to keep players under 100% their own control, rather then using players strengths to their own advanatage and just letting them do what they do best, play basketball.

I have done level 2 twice and they were vastly different courses, because of different presenters. These courses are good for picking up different things but if you have played at high level or gone through a decent junior program as a player you already know it all and much more, than will be offered here

"Never want to coach State - found Admin wanted it their way or not at all "

So so true imnoballer. It's even worse here in SA!

imnoballer you remind me of this cats that say I never played at a high level because the trainings were too much/hard. Excuses for people that were afraid to really test themselves and want to be a big fish in their pissant pond.

If imnoballer never coached rep or state, how would you know those things?

The parents i've come across in the rep scene have been generally alright in terms of expectations, most actually have little to no expectations. Coaching Rep is far more challenging and rewarding then domestic, as domestic coaching is relatively easy, the highest level is only so good, and you can just have a bunch of top level rep players and you'll get results, in rep the level is always improving as the season continues, and you always have to push the team to improve.

But i do agree state selections across the country are usually based by name instead of always the best talent

Coaching state is closed shop

It certainly won't get any more open with what happened this year in one age group.

Its quite sad really, there are a lot of good people who can't or won't get involved because they don't play the politics.