I can coach.

Good coaches are in demand. Football coaches, baseball coaches.

I like coaching. Teaching. Why can’t I do something I actually love to do?

For sports coaching, you don’t even have to be good at the game - Bill Walsh led the San Francisco 49ers to a bunch of Superbowl victories in the 1980s, and he sucked at playing football, for example. Just because you can’t do it well, doesn’t mean one can’t coach/teach well, and actually have valuable information.

Being able to teach is a completely different skill than doing it.

There is a need for coaches, otherwise that word wouldn’t even exist.

We all have had great teachers, and shit teachers. Some coaches are shit, some good.

And of course, the coach has to know the material and how to apply it.

I could explain more, but I think you take my point.

And to repeat, I AM making a distinction between people who don’t understand and know the material, vs people who do understand the subject matter and are not just regurgitating what others say, and actually can think and synthesize and formulate and systematize and write interestingly and all that.

I’ve been paid to coach, some stay with me for years. They are NOT stupid people that I coach. They pay me. They get value.