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There aren’t enough coaches because many leave and are never replaced and also the directors get overpaid so there’s no cash left in the kitty to pay for extra staff.

Seems like a mis-allocation of funds. Board shoud be looking into this. MOre coaches are definitely needed in both boys and girls teams.

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A team of coaches working each age group would be one suggestion. Suggestion- Coach Brad Schmidt coaches the u18 ECNL Composite team with 15 players and Coach Mike Pickett holds practice for his two ECNL teams u17 and u18 , or forty players , at the same block of time. The composite team of a 1 coach to 15 players is much better for development than 1 coach to 40 ECNL players. But the could combine the entire pool of u17 and u18 ECNL players with two coaches and have a ratio of 2 coaches to 45 players. The could also bring in the B teams and their coaches and have even more coaches and players in the older pool. If the ECNL teams and B teams practiced at the same main fields it would also be easier for Gough the girls ECNL director and Busby the keeper coach to work with Pickett's U17 and U18 ECNL teams, Brad's composite team and the B teams in one block in one location. Teams could scrimmage, players be evaluated, and special large group training sessions on the college recruitment process and more.

The Composite U18 team has lost every game this year. Looks like it’s a little late in the day for any help. Another stellar coaching job by BS.

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Like last summer when FESA had no faith in its U18 second team players or younger age star players anywhere from Jacksonville to Palm Coast to Tallahassee who could play up to help the U18 ECNL girls team who was short players who could attend Nationals. Instead FESA used half of its own ECNL U18 girls team players and brought in over half a roster of players from FKK, Washington State and Arkansas to try to make a team that could win ECNL Nationals. The problem being that many of the guest players they brought in were on second teams, were a year younger, and had never once practiced with the U18 FESA players. Also, FESA leadership could have sat down with the U18 team and found a way to help fund and motivate its own ECNL and or Composite ECNL team players. A Composite ECNL team exists to help the main ECNL team. Girls looking to move to FESA need to consider the poor leadership decisions that Bubb and the U18 coaches Brad and Mike Pickett made.

That was wrong and Bubb should have been held accountable for letting it happen.

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It's also because coaches aren't ALLOWED to move players down or bring up better players because they are told by ED and other directors they can't because of $$ and the player's financial and marketing contributions to the club (and said salary) in terms of paying for camps and tagging the club in every post - and sharing, etc. Which tells me it's all about money and less about talent.

This is really bad at FESA but probably an issue at other clubs including Armada. It is usually pretty easy to pick the top half of best players for a top team at any age group. After that is where it gets dicey and the non-sense and politics with parents backstabbing. The problem is that for U10 team, Not all of the top half of top team will be the same players by U14. And many players from a B team at U10 could be a top player on top team by U14 if developed properly. This does not happen.

Winners and losers are picked based on how many siblings you pay for, how much you donated to soccerathon, how much volt wardrobe you buy and wear. See how it works? In the meantime, players with athletic ability or more potential get discarded and discouraged. Maybe the finally make it by U14 but they missed out on a lot of proper training and development opportunity because some kid with favored treatment has locked in that spot. And what the other poster said is so true. VERY few top team players get relegated when it should be 1/3 EVERY year. Let them earn their way back if they are worthy. It is easy to jerk around B and C team players but not the A team. They are sacred.

FESA has a large and excellent talent pool. The lack of results by U13 ECNL should tell you something is going very wrong at Veterans.

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This is really bad at FESA but probably an issue at other clubs including Armada. It is usually pretty easy to pick the top half of best players for a top team at any age group. After that is where it gets dicey and the non-sense and politics with parents backstabbing. The problem is that for U10 team, Not all of the top half of top team will be the same players by U14. And many players from a B team at U10 could be a top player on top team by U14 if developed properly. This does not happen.

Winners and losers are picked based on how many siblings you pay for, how much you donated to soccerathon, how much volt wardrobe you buy and wear. See how it works? In the meantime, players with athletic ability or more potential get discarded and discouraged. Maybe the finally make it by U14 but they missed out on a lot of proper training and development opportunity because some kid with favored treatment has locked in that spot. And what the other poster said is so true. VERY few top team players get relegated when it should be 1/3 EVERY year. Let them earn their way back if they are worthy. It is easy to jerk around B and C team players but not the A team. They are sacred.

FESA has a large and excellent talent pool. The lack of results by U13 ECNL should tell you something is going very wrong at Veterans.

Winning isn’t everything but staying competitive is for challenging games not blowouts. FESA and Armada tend to get one team here or there that are National caliber. Also bottom 1/3 of a roster can still be top players but maybe can’t get as much playing time as the big D1 college commit ahead of them for the same positions.

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This is really bad at FESA but probably an issue at other clubs including Armada. It is usually pretty easy to pick the top half of best players for a top team at any age group. After that is where it gets dicey and the non-sense and politics with parents backstabbing. The problem is that for U10 team, Not all of the top half of top team will be the same players by U14. And many players from a B team at U10 could be a top player on top team by U14 if developed properly. This does not happen.

Winners and losers are picked based on how many siblings you pay for, how much you donated to soccerathon, how much volt wardrobe you buy and wear. See how it works? In the meantime, players with athletic ability or more potential get discarded and discouraged. Maybe the finally make it by U14 but they missed out on a lot of proper training and development opportunity because some kid with favored treatment has locked in that spot. And what the other poster said is so true. VERY few top team players get relegated when it should be 1/3 EVERY year. Let them earn their way back if they are worthy. It is easy to jerk around B and C team players but not the A team. They are sacred.

FESA has a large and excellent talent pool. The lack of results by U13 ECNL should tell you something is going very wrong at Veterans.

More reason to have the age group pool train together at one location so can scrimmage and tryout players all year long. Then all players feel part of the peer group and club goals. A team players will be more obliged to guest on the B teams too. No snobbishness allowed.

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Winning isn’t everything but staying competitive is for challenging games not blowouts. FESA and Armada tend to get one team here or there that are National caliber. Also bottom 1/3 of a roster can still be top players but maybe can’t get as much playing time as the big D1 college commit ahead of them for the same positions.

All of these clubs talk about pool training their A and B teams but often you see a token effort sometimes but more likely they keep A team players away from B team like they are the plague. You don't want to have a lot of pool training with parents seeing B team players as good or better than the A team and wonder ***? And definitely don't do many mixed scrimmages even though some of FESAs B teams are better than some opponents of the A team. The horror of it! They choose to do with flak from B parents of not promoting many to A team rather than worse flak of demoting many A-teamers and admitting they make mistakes at last tryouts or things change.

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All of these clubs talk about pool training their A and B teams but often you see a token effort sometimes but more likely they keep A team players away from B team like they are the plague. You don't want to have a lot of pool training with parents seeing B team players as good or better than the A team and wonder ***? And definitely don't do many mixed scrimmages even though some of FESAs B teams are better than some opponents of the A team. The horror of it! They choose to do with flak from B parents of not promoting many to A team rather than worse flak of demoting many A-teamers and admitting they make mistakes at last tryouts or things change.

When you judge coaches on how many players they retain each year you won’t get a true competitive club based on development and effort. I have seen B team level players from Clay and Armada get straight into the A team at FESA over deserving B teamers from within the club getting rightly promoted. Coaches have been threatened with being fired if they lose players from their teams. It’s simply based on numbers and money, nothing more, nothing less. That’s why they are having little success at the ECNL/NPL level besides a couple teams which have always been strong before the clubs merged. For a club with the number of players they underachieve massively which smacks of poor coaching/development.

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All of these clubs talk about pool training their A and B teams but often you see a token effort sometimes but more likely they keep A team players away from B team like they are the plague. You don't want to have a lot of pool training with parents seeing B team players as good or better than the A team and wonder ***? And definitely don't do many mixed scrimmages even though some of FESAs B teams are better than some opponents of the A team. The horror of it! They choose to do with flak from B parents of not promoting many to A team rather than worse flak of demoting many A-teamers and admitting they make mistakes at last tryouts or things change.

But with the right training of parents and players about mindset it could be positive. B team players can see that they can hang with the A players and to work harder. A team players can see how many good B team players are out there and must work harder yet if they get delegated the B team is not bad and the players all train together with a team of coaches who care. You see, it is mindset not fear.

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When you judge coaches on how many players they retain each year you won’t get a true competitive club based on development and effort. I have seen B team level players from Clay and Armada get straight into the A team at FESA over deserving B teamers from within the club getting rightly promoted. Coaches have been threatened with being fired if they lose players from their teams. It’s simply based on numbers and money, nothing more, nothing less. That’s why they are having little success at the ECNL/NPL level besides a couple teams which have always been strong before the clubs merged. For a club with the number of players they underachieve massively which smacks of poor coaching/development.

Preach it brother! Though as long as they retain enough and keep the money flowing along with the happy pictures on social media, what do you expect to change? FESA is a glorified REC puppy farm of youth players where everybody makes a team and the pysco parents get their kids moved up. FESA does want to win at all costs but their coaches are generally sub-par and the politics and games ends up ******* many off unless you are one of those getting favored treatment just like Board members. Then, everything is hunky dory and you wear the volt everywhere.

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When you judge coaches on how many players they retain each year you won’t get a true competitive club based on development and effort. I have seen B team level players from Clay and Armada get straight into the A team at FESA over deserving B teamers from within the club getting rightly promoted. Coaches have been threatened with being fired if they lose players from their teams. It’s simply based on numbers and money, nothing more, nothing less. That’s why they are having little success at the ECNL/NPL level besides a couple teams which have always been strong before the clubs merged. For a club with the number of players they underachieve massively which smacks of poor coaching/development.

Armada girls ECNL teams are performing no better than FESA's ECNL teams in the rankings. The shiny new girl might look like a promising prize at tryouts and bring in new money too, but the best gauge on how a player fits is to evaluate all year and to scrimmage. A one day tryout is not ideal because players can be sick or not get to play their prefered position.

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Preach it brother! Though as long as they retain enough and keep the money flowing along with the happy pictures on social media, what do you expect to change? FESA is a glorified REC puppy farm of youth players where everybody makes a team and the pysco parents get their kids moved up. FESA does want to win at all costs but their coaches are generally sub-par and the politics and games ends up ******* many off unless you are one of those getting favored treatment just like Board members. Then, everything is hunky dory and you wear the volt everywhere.

Seeing happy kids on the D and E teams is refreshing. There are levels of play for each player. There is nothing wrong with recreation soccer except the stigma in parents and players minds. The problem becomes when at the older ages FESA can't field a girls team to Nationals ECNL without bringing in half a team from outside the club.

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Right. It needs to be a whole big pool of WE being developed in each age group and having teams scrimmage eachother and moving players up and down for different games and tournaments. Having three subs on the bench for older teams is not good for the players or team. The teams are one step from injuries and falling apart if they can't work together with a pool of players. For example, Pickett should not be coaching the 2002 and 2000-01 two age group ECNL teams by himself. The ratio of coaches to players for ECNL is unacceptable. Pickett's ECNL teams practice at separate fields from the B teams. It should be a team of coaches working together with a larger pool of players. Also, it must be Coaches, Directors, Board Members, Parents, and Players working together, communicating and living the true message of WE ARE FLORIDA ELITE.

Hence why the National level FESA u18 TEAM FELL APART. The seniors were done and getting ready for college soccer and there were injuries and they couldn't field a team for National Championships that the team had earned into by being number 1 in the region ECNL. But if FESA had a true system of development and teams training and working together, the Composite ECNL and B team players or even younger players from FESA Palm Coast or FESA Tallahassee would have been asked and stepped up to help at Nationals.

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I thought there was huge hype about Tottenham sending a full time coach to the club? That’s what was said in a town hall meeting. One came for the fall and left. Did they send another one?

Never any answers. Bubb promises a Tottenham coach at the club. He promises he will never bring in guest players from other clubs and he will only use players from within the club for ECNL.