If you stop learning or trying to learn new techniques it is time to get out of coaching. My original point was, you have to have a point of reference playing to be able to teach the techniques. It would be like teaching a class with a lesson plan left by a teacher of a subject you have never taken. You could teach the lesson, but you would not have a reference point to go from. Finding good assistants is another problem. If they are not a teacher, the administration has very little tolerance for them or any mistakes they make. The head coach has to have that trust because he is ultimately responsible for them. You just do not see too many assistants with longevity. I think in Howard County the longest tenured assistant is Steve Kavakos at Hammond - 9 years with Lerner. There are some great young assistants - Petrika, Atholton, Deuchler, Centennial - although he did not coach this year, and some older guys coming back like Merson at Marriots Ridge.