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    How many teams does your child's coach try and coach during a season. Do they coach teams outside the club too (e.g., college, high school)? I have concerns about how many teams my daughter's coach will be coaching during the fall season. She's also a new'ish coach (i.e., young) and seems to be biting off more than she should or maybe the club is taking advantage of her naivete.

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    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
    How many teams does your child's coach try and coach during a season. Do they coach teams outside the club too (e.g., college, high school)? I have concerns about how many teams my daughter's coach will be coaching during the fall season. She's also a new'ish coach (i.e., young) and seems to be biting off more than she should or maybe the club is taking advantage of her naivete.
    The Fall season is always a struggle for Club coaches who also coach at the High school level. I am a Varsity Assistant and a Club coach, I worked my schedule for the Fall season to have 2 trainings a week the same nights each week for the entire fall season and accept I will have to miss part of my High school commitment. (being Young shouldn't effect the decision making and the time management either as I am young myself)

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      #3
      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
      How many teams does your child's coach try and coach during a season. Do they coach teams outside the club too (e.g., college, high school)? I have concerns about how many teams my daughter's coach will be coaching during the fall season. She's also a new'ish coach (i.e., young) and seems to be biting off more than she should or maybe the club is taking advantage of her naivete.
      Two seems to be the norm, three max. There could be a situation based purely on a lucky scheduling configuration that makes it work better for some vs others. My daughter's club coach coaches her team, HS varsity and one travel team in the fall. He's very harried then but makes it work, probably because they're all based close together and he lives nearby. In the fall we sometimes get an assistant who is quite good and I think she covers his travel team also when he can't.

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        #4
        Is it possible for a single person to coach 4 different club teams?

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          #5
          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
          Is it possible for a single person to coach 4 different club teams?
          not effectively

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            #6
            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
            Is it possible for a single person to coach 4 different club teams?
            Definitely too many. There will always be conflicts and others will have to step in and help - assistant coach, other club coach, last choice - parent.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
              Is it possible for a single person to coach 4 different club teams?
              Consider yourself lucky. Stars certain coaches have a 8:1 ratio

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                #8
                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                How many teams does your child's coach try and coach during a season. Do they coach teams outside the club too (e.g., college, high school)? I have concerns about how many teams my daughter's coach will be coaching during the fall season. She's also a new'ish coach (i.e., young) and seems to be biting off more than she should or maybe the club is taking advantage of her naivete.
                Welcome to club soccer!

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                  #9
                  I've seen a coach of 1 team who's always late, runs crappy training sessions, and is a disaster on the sideline of matches.

                  I've seen a coach of what seems like an impossible number of teams guilty of none of those things.

                  Depends on knowing which one you have.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                    I've seen a coach of 1 team who's always late, runs crappy training sessions, and is a disaster on the sideline of matches.

                    I've seen a coach of what seems like an impossible number of teams guilty of none of those things.

                    Depends on knowing which one you have.
                    so at my sons club, the standard is 2, but a few have 3 teams. But what they due is team up with another coach and whenever they have conflicts with a game or practice, the same coach pretty much always steps in so the boys know him well too. The coach also works hard to schedule his practices in a way that prevents conflicts and typically the teams play at the same tournaments too and indoor leagues, albeit at different age groups. His coach only missed two games out of about 30 they played last year even though he had three teams.

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                      Two seems to be the norm, three max.
                      I don't think you can say there's a norm or a max. I've seen plenty of clubs push the envelope with bigger numbers. One fall I either coached or assisted with 6 teams and somehow had almost no schedule conflicts, but made sure I was never committed to that many teams again.

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                        #12
                        When are these big club going to learn to pool their resources and train players in ability groups rather than by teams. With all of these leagues you could then place kids in matches that would most suite their training needs and who shows up to coach would be largely irrelevant. It would actually solve a lot of logistic and cost issues as well as improve the quality of training. The only thing that would suffer is the mommies and daddies wouldn't get a chance to brag about what team their little darlings were on.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          When are these big club going to learn to pool their resources and train players in ability groups rather than by teams. With all of these leagues you could then place kids in matches that would most suite their training needs and who shows up to coach would be largely irrelevant. It would actually solve a lot of logistic and cost issues as well as improve the quality of training. The only thing that would suffer is the mommies and daddies wouldn't get a chance to brag about what team their little darlings were on.
                          That would be dependent on league rules.

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            When are these big club going to learn to pool their resources and train players in ability groups rather than by teams. With all of these leagues you could then place kids in matches that would most suite their training needs and who shows up to coach would be largely irrelevant. It would actually solve a lot of logistic and cost issues as well as improve the quality of training. The only thing that would suffer is the mommies and daddies wouldn't get a chance to brag about what team their little darlings were on.
                            On the contrary - then they could brag that little Mikey is on the "top" team. And isn't that what A/B/C teams are about? They are grouped by ability. Not sure where you're going with this. There's also league restrictions based on ages - yes younger players can play up but older ones can't play down.

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