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Coaches are hard to find, particularly at the rec and youth levels where they are unpaid volunteers. The only requirements are usually the commitment to show up. Officials often make more from the game than HS coaches, who might be paid $2500 a year or so on top of their normal teaching salaries.
High School coaches have to attend clinics, but rules are seldom discussed at these clinics. I know few coaches who have actually read the rule books, and those few have mostly reffed on the side.
While making fun of the coach's knowlege of the rules makes for good war stories, rules knowlege is a minor part of their job. A rudimentary knowlege is all that is necessary to win games, which is the major part of their job.
Basketball is about the players, not the officials or the coaches. If more of us remembered that, the games would not be as confrontational.
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