Why aren't S&C coaches certified medical doctors?

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strenuous workout, they were being led by a strength coach certified from a track and field coaches association.

For a $245 fee, the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) offers a 21-hour strength training course to become a certified NCAA strength coach in any sport. By comparison, the widely-used Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCA) requires 30 times as much training -- a 640-hour certification process.

According to the NCAA, that track certification was all that was needed by Oregon football strength coach Irele Oderinde, who was suspended for one month due to the January workout. But should it be? Four industry experts with more than 100 combined years of experience told CBS Sports they don’t consider Oderinde properly certified to be a football strength coach. 

Oregon told CBS Sports that Oderinde and his staff may seek “additional certifications.”

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 a paper scheduled to be published this month, Oklahoma athletic trainer Scott Anderson wrote that since 2000 more players have died in February conditioning alone than in the previous 16 years of games, in-season practices, preseason practices and spring practices – combined.

With college football’s “killing season” in full swing -- the overwhelming majority of deaths occur in the offseason -- Oregon’s situation raises fundamental questions. What’s the standard to be an NCAA strength and conditioning coach? And are players as safe as they should be?

“We’re killing kids in preparation for the game,” Anderson said. “The game itself is relatively safe.”

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Florida State All-American safety Myron Rolle believes college football strength coaches need to be held more accountable.

“I’m a neurosurgeon now,” Rolle said. “Imagine if I walked into a patient’s room and I just took an online class to be certified, and I said, ‘I’m going to do your surgery today.’ That patient would say, ‘Get out of my room.’”

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