Why don't club coaches want to coach High School?

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You clearly have no clue as to what is happening to our country soccer wise. Yes, HS soccer is FREE but rich white parents think that their privileged little Messis are better off paying $1500 or more a season, plus travel, to feel like they are better than the rest. Look at the parking lots at most clubs in this country and you will see millions of dollars worth in cars alone.

Players that want to play COMPETITIVE soccer DO NOT have many options if they lack money or transportation. HS gives them the only option but as you stated, it is a weak place to play so they are stuck with mediocre coaches and competition.

Truly exceptional athletes come in all sizes, shapes and colors but, as a rule, athletes will gravitate to sports that their families can afford and it is easy to get to.

US Youth soccer is all about the money.

By the way, club is not that much better than high school. Expensive cars in the parking lot do not make it so. Its the same players, and the same relatively low level. And there are plenty of hispanic leagues, pick-up leagues, indoor teams that are cheap and virtually all "expensive" clubs offer scholarships based on need. Save the workers of the world unite speech for the next red revolution please ...

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By the way, club is not that much better than high school. Expensive cars in the parking lot do not make it so. Its the same players, and the same relatively low level. And there are plenty of hispanic leagues, pick-up leagues, indoor teams that are cheap and virtually all "expensive" clubs offer scholarships based on need. Save the workers of the world unite speech for the next red revolution please ...

LOL...It is coming, and soon.

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Then why are the poor kids dominating the draft picks for the NFL and NBA every year?

Because they have a basketball hoop in every corner and free HS as their launching pad for both basketball and Football, that is why.

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LOL...It is coming, and soon.

It's already here. Crybullies who didn't even vote screeching about the results of a democratic election. Trump save us all.

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In palm beach county thee are several. Rachel at Boca high is undefeated. Mike at Wellington won districts. Stacy at Oxbridge is an excellent coach thats not a club coach. There are others as well.

Wrong, Rachel was a club coach at Team Boca for years. She also played at Team Boca her whole careeer and then went on to play at FSU. Stacy at Oxbridge was also a club coach for years at Weston and Team Boca. Actually I think even Koz was at Wellington. You will be hard pressed to find a good high school coach who wasn't trained as a club coach first. If you look at all the weaker HS teams you'll find a teacher posing as a coach

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Because they have a basketball hoop in every corner and free HS as their launching pad for both basketball and Football, that is why.

They also have free HS as their launching pad for soccer. Why can poor kids use HS as a launching pad for football but not soccer? Are there goal posts and manicured football fields on every corner unlike soccer fields (which in most parts of the world is defined by a patch of grass and t-shirts making the goals).

I'll just come right out and say it commie. Poor kids in this country that havent found a way to play are not suitable for soccer because they dont have the work ethic, come from bad culture familes and have a sense of entitlement. Why work for money if it is just thrown at you? All you have to be is born big and fast and show up for high school football tryouts in high school and boom - you are in the NFL in a couple years making millions. Cant get away with that in soccer - soccer is a skill sport requiring thousands of hours of training to be good at. Most poor kids not willing to work - bad genetics - look at the parents...

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LOL...It is coming, and soon.

Commies on TS ... like roaches, so easy to draw them out of the woodwork ...

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They also have free HS as their launching pad for soccer. Why can poor kids use HS as a launching pad for football but not soccer? Are there goal posts and manicured football fields on every corner unlike soccer fields (which in most parts of the world is defined by a patch of grass and t-shirts making the goals).

I'll just come right out and say it commie. Poor kids in this country that havent found a way to play are not suitable for soccer because they dont have the work ethic, come from bad culture familes and have a sense of entitlement. Why work for money if it is just thrown at you? All you have to be is born big and fast and show up for high school football tryouts in high school and boom - you are in the NFL in a couple years making millions. Cant get away with that in soccer - soccer is a skill sport requiring thousands of hours of training to be good at. Most poor kids not willing to work - bad genetics - look at the parents...

And the poor kids that come from these same families that love soccer, and have the work ethic and desire to become good at it, always find a way to play. I know of one that made OC DA after a career in rec up to the age of 16.

We are not losing players because soccer is too expensive. We dont have enough quality players because we are a soccer retarded culture.

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Wrong, Rachel was a club coach at Team Boca for years. She also played at Team Boca her whole careeer and then went on to play at FSU. Stacy at Oxbridge was also a club coach for years at Weston and Team Boca. Actually I think even Koz was at Wellington. You will be hard pressed to find a good high school coach who wasn't trained as a club coach first. If you look at all the weaker HS teams you'll find a teacher posing as a coach

Rachel is an excellent coach who had a lot of club training and she kills the other coaches in her district who have no club training, Spanish River coach is a perfect example. He's been their coach for many years and he is terrible. He has a former club coach help him and do trainings because he is a teacher and not a coach. River has had some very good teams over the years and if they had a real coach they could have advanced through regionals many times instead of early round exits

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The best answer is there is very little money is high school coaching. To do it you have to have the passion.

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They also have free HS as their launching pad for soccer. Why can poor kids use HS as a launching pad for football but not soccer? Are there goal posts and manicured football fields on every corner unlike soccer fields (which in most parts of the world is defined by a patch of grass and t-shirts making the goals).

Had to take out your 2nd paragraph as it's one of the most inane, incorrect, stereotyped and racist things I've read on TS - and that says a great deal.

You want to know why HS is no longer a launch pad for soccer? Because college coaches don't scout games any longer. ECNL, DA and others created this nice easy system for them do one stop shopping for players. They can use their travel budget to travel to FL, TX San Diego etc to go watch a hundred players in a few days, hang with lots of other coaches in the hotel bar at the end of the day. They don't have to do the hard work any longer of scouting HS games. Truthfully I don't blame them either -

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Had to take out your 2nd paragraph as it's one of the most inane, incorrect, stereotyped and racist things I've read on TS - and that says a great deal.

You want to know why HS is no longer a launch pad for soccer? Because college coaches don't scout games any longer. ECNL, DA and others created this nice easy system for them do one stop shopping for players. They can use their travel budget to travel to FL, TX San Diego etc to go watch a hundred players in a few days, hang with lots of other coaches in the hotel bar at the end of the day. They don't have to do the hard work any longer of scouting HS games. Truthfully I don't blame them either -

Have you ever even been to a college showcase tournament? Trust me they still have hundreds of college coaches. ECNL and DA aren't needed at all. Other than top D1 college regular college coaches are at showcase events not ECNL or DA. High school coaches are usually a joke and if they're good coaches I guarantee they are either club coaches or former club coaches and if they aren't stay away because your kid will go backwards fast with the English teacher coach.

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Have you ever even been to a college showcase tournament? Trust me they still have hundreds of college coaches. ECNL and DA aren't needed at all. Other than top D1 college regular college coaches are at showcase events not ECNL or DA. High school coaches are usually a joke and if they're good coaches I guarantee they are either club coaches or former club coaches and if they aren't stay away because your kid will go backwards fast with the English teacher coach.

Not the poster - Yes of course there are other showcase events, but that is still another case of coaches gathering in one place and not seeking out players at HS games. You may get a few coaches at the semi and state final games, maybe the rare assistant coach coming to watch a very local player when the schedule allows. To be at those showcase events you still need to be paying a good deal of money to play at clubs who are attending them. It shuts out a lot of players. The token scholarship here or there that some clubs will give is a drop in the bucket.

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Being a HS coach isn't easy - huge gaps in talent and commitment, dealing with the administration, paperwork, difficult parents, very low pay considering how many hours it requires. It also requires a great deal of schedule flexibility since almost everything is right after school. It just won't work with everyone's work schedules (plenty of club coaches have "real" jobs).. You can schedule practices later in the day as a club coach. Passion + logitics = won't work for everyone

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Rachel is an excellent coach who had a lot of club training and she kills the other coaches in her district who have no club training, Spanish River coach is a perfect example. He's been their coach for many years and he is terrible. He has a former club coach help him and do trainings because he is a teacher and not a coach. River has had some very good teams over the years and if they had a real coach they could have advanced through regionals many times instead of early round exits

Agreed. How in the world did Spanish River get to the district final? The coach stinks! They did manage to beat Douglas whose coach Laura Rountree used to be a club coach in Coral Springs and we see where both programs are in the toilet! I think there is a lot of demand on coaches time if they coach high school and it is difficult for them to coach club. The Spanish River coach couldn't get a job coaching club if he applied though.