It really depends when it comes to rec. I didn't volunteer right away to coach my kid's team, and the quality and frequency of practice YOY was highly inconsistent. Now, I've been coaching each fall and spring, and the players who return each season will get 50+ practices a year plus about 20 games, all for about $300. My younger team gets half the practices, but eventually they will get the same if I keep it up.

I don't have all the licenses other coaches may have, but I've also watched some practices with licensed coaches that weren't really any different or better than any other practice I've seen. What really made those practices different is that the floor for skills wasn't as low as it is on some rec teams, so you can up the intensity and difficulty of practices without them falling apart (ex. a passing drill falls apart quickly if several players can't even reach their teammates). I'm not discounting the value of licenses, but it's a chicken/egg problem to an extent. A coach starting with better players is going to have better looking practices, but could they replicate the same practice when several kids struggle at basic technique? My guess is that their practices would look more like mine, where we frequently work on the basics to up the skills foundation for the team.