Besides officials, it is harder and harder to find people to volunteer to coach youth sports. I have been doing it for years and my kids are now moving on to school sports. The younger age groups in all sports are having a hell of a time finding people to step up and coach. Harassment of coaches by parents is one factor I see constantly. I have never really had an issue, but I know several that have. "Little Bobby needs to be playing shortstop". "Why didn't Sally get to be point guard?" "We have to buy socks for the kids?!?!?!"
It can be exhausting. Besides that crap, all the head coach does is logistics for the most part, very little coaching.
It doesn't stop at youth sports.
I was a head coach of a college club wrestling program, and was run off by parents who, among other things, threatened me and other coaches, threatened students in leadership roles, committed a Title XI violation by calling a female athlete a sexually derogatory term, threatened my wife's job, falsely said I refused donations, accused me of abandoning their children, threatened to sue me for every dime I owned (told to university administrators but never passed to me until months later), said I couldn't possibly be a good coach because I wasn't a parent, said I couldn't understand why they were overbearing parents because I wasn't of the same culture (i.e. racism), drove divisions between students, tried a coup to have their own coach named, once an investigation was spurred coached multiple kids on what to say to get me removed, etc. Despite multiple pleas for help to the university club sports department, they did nothing. Parents pushed the university and dug until they could find a reason to fire us, which indeed was a rules violation but IMO small beans compared to what parents were doing to us. A few parents drove this entire wreck, and the university was negligent in their reaction.
BTW, none of the kids of these parents were members of the team following this ordeal. Kid of the parent ringleader was kicked off the team, and others just chose not to participate.
In five years we brought the team from not having any national qualifiers, to conference champs and pushing for a national title. While I'm very proud of what we accomplished and love the relationships I created with many of the athletes, other coaches, and community, I'll probably never coach again after going through all that crap. F*** parents.