The point of my question was that I think we need to provide as many incentives as possible, positive and negative, to encourage race directors to keep their courses certified.
The race directors who put on long standing, low key events may not see any advantage to getting someone out to extend their certification. They know their course is the correct length and that it hasn't changed, and they may not want to invest in a new piece of paper that tells them what they already know. That's their call.
But if the benefits of having a certified course include such things as eligibility for sanctioning, eligibility for records being set, and the posting of the course map on the USATF web site, that's value added that we can continue to sell.