In this regard we have developed a code of ethics for coaches. We are also developing coaching competencies to help recognize and standardize when a coach is ready to rise to the next level. Being an Olympic coach is a great achievement, but being an entry-level coach is also crucial to the future of our Olympic athletes and sports in general. Those are sports that if measures aren't taken, they are going to die in the U.S. at the Olympic level. A classic example is men's gymnastics.
Men are at their physical peak for gymnastics in their college years.
At the college level, there has been a constant cutting of men's gymnastics programs. If the cutting continues, we are not going to have men's gymnastics at the college level, which means we won't have the competition at the Olympic level. We have an NCAA-USOC conference grant program by which we are assisting certain sports so as to preserve those sports within the collegiate sports structure. If the answer is nowhere, the student will say to himself or herself, maybe Ishould go into a different sport. Many of the lower-profile sports are clamoring for more TV time.