The Georgia High School Association is doubling fines to $200 for missing online rules clinics after coaches paid $122,000 for 1,220 clinic no-shows last year.
Going a step further, the GHSA no longer will let coaches work until they complete their clinics. In the past, they could pay their fines and still join their teams.
“We feel it’s important that you complete the clinic, so I made the recommendation to the board of trustees last fall that we up the fine,” GHSA executive director Tim Scott said Tuesday. “The trustees agreed and said they wanted to more than just double the fine to put some teeth in it. So now you have a deadline to complete the clinic or you can’t coach. We want all of them to know the rules and provide the best for their athletes.”
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Clinics are sports-specific and typically take less than 30 minutes to finish. They consist of slideshows and videos. The GHSA schedules the clinics in three-week windows leading to each sport’s season…