Disagree with HS coaches working wity their athletes year round. KSHSAA position is the right way to go.

Year a round contact with the HS coach puts a lot of unnecessary pressure on the kid. From personal experience, by the time my son graduated from HS--a two sport 4 year varsity 8 letters, he was tired of his coaches and the coaches were tired of my son---and he was a great kid and the coaches were great guys. By restricting the HS coaches lets the athletes work with another coach/es in the off season.

A big danger to letting HS coaches be involved in off season teams is the danger of favortism. My brother lives in Missouri. His son was a baseball player. In Mo, at least in BB, the HS coaches were paid Legion BB coaches. 5 or 6 local HS and 5 or 6 local legion teams, and the Legion and HS teams were linked. According to my bro, accross the board--with all HS and all Legion teams--if you did not play on the HS team/coach you could not play on his legion team.

Interesting change to KSHSAA off season contact and coaching retrictions in 2008 for football, Basketball, and volleyball. Now, during the 8 week period from The weekend before Memorial Day till the 18th of July HS coaches--in only these 3 sports--are not restricted in coaching or in contact with their HS players---can also be the managers or administrators of sports clubs ann/or teams. Also very interesting is the last paragraph telling the coaches that they can not use the off season coaching and contact to discriminate against any of their HS kids

The FB, BB, and VB crowd must have more pull at Topeka than the other sports. Side comment--not too long ago baseball in kansas high schools was classified as an "individual" sport" I assume that was to get around somekind of restrictions.

Now if you want to verify what I have just posted concerning Change to Coaching Restrictions---Check out the KSHSAA home page. Down the left hand column is a list of KSHSAA letters and pubs. You will find a letter with a title with this subject.