coaching rules in faifax county

Public or Private School? Paid coach or volunteer "assistant"?
The VHSL handbook can be found here:
http://www.vhsl.org/about_vhsl/pub-vhsl-handbook

Public school. Paid assistant.

I've always thought that if a coach was being paid voluntarily for his private services (ie coach not pressuring kids to pay for his services or risk repercussions for not doing so), and if that coach's services were available to the general public (and not just players from his school) that it was ok. I could be wrong, but that's what I've been told and thought to be true.

By the way, the fact that it's Fairfax County is irrelevant. All VA public schools are governed by the same set of rules.

That was my opinion also...can't find anything in writing yet. I said Fx Cty because some rules seem to be different in different regions...in the Fredricksburg area the kids can choose the school they want to go to and the varsity baseball coaches are coaching travel teams with kids that may end up playing for them.

Ok - the Northern Region of the VHSL has a few rules on coach participation & programs that are more restrictive than the VHSL rules, but AFAIK, there's no restriction on "private lessons" per se.
If you have questions, contact the BB coaching staff @ that school. If that's not satisfactory, then (and only then) I'd go to the AD.

Anyone know if all of the NR VHSL rules are posted online?

Hmmm, I didn't realize that particular regions had harsher rules than the VHSL (it's hard to imagine those rules being any stricter against high school coach contact). But if true, then I wouldn't know where to find any further info.

In the Northern Region, coaches can provide provide instruction for a fee as long as they don't direct their kids to come to them. I believe this is no different than elsewhere in the state.

With regard to coaching summer or fall teams, high school coaches, regardless of head or assistant, cannot coach a team with more than 1/3 of the roster from their high school. If a coach is new to a school, his official coaching contract doesn't start until the spring season, so sometimes you may see a situation when a summer or fall team coach comes on in the following spring as an official member of the coaching staff. This is a Northern region-only rule and has nothing to do with VHSL.

True. I've seen new coachs "teach" or "coach" right up to the 1st day of tryouts.

I do wonder why the N. Region enacted it's own rules (not just for Baseball, BTW). I don't know of any other VA Region w/as many "local" rules...

My guess is "grasso".

Not Pudge?

He was on "grasso's list".

Yes, I knew @ the Grasso/Pudge saga, but the NR's response seemed, well, odd. Ah well.

The 1/3 rule dates back to the recruiting accusations in girls basketball charged against teams like Madison, Oakton, West Springfield, and others where high school coaches were using their AAU coaching to build relationships with players during the offseason and getting them to pupil place into their schools by taking a class such as sign language. Kara Lawson, basketball player who led West Springfield (after pupil placing away from West Potomac) to two state titles before heading to Tennessee and WNBA, was poster child that helped implement this rule. It now applies to all NR sports.

So, coaches can now coach as much as they want in the offseason, but only 1/3 of the roster can be from their school.