Seacoast u19's are really really really Bad this year.

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All the players you mentioned were developed under a different Academy director. There's a new Academy director at Seacoast and. the results speak for themselves.

Lol it's only been a year dumbas$.

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Coaches shop players, not teams. Rarely do they "discover" someone if interest while watching another player. They don't have time to window shop. They come with specific players in mind, most times players they have already been talking with. A U19 team is going to have a lot of seniors on it. Most D1 recruiting for seniors is done, certainly the money is gone at this point.

Likely letters coming soon and "merit money" along with them.

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One way to look at it

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All the players you mentioned were developed under a different Academy director. There's a new Academy director at Seacoast and. the results speak for themselves.

Alistair has also coached in the PDL where he presided over 3 North East Division Championship titles & 5 playoff appearances in 7 years in the league. Looks to me like he knows a bit about coaching. The previous director left the club in disarray and it's going to take a little time to get some momentum.

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Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
All the players you mentioned were developed under a different Academy director. There's a new Academy director at Seacoast and. the results speak for themselves.

Alistair has also coached in the PDL where he presided over 3 North East Division Championship titles & 5 playoff appearances in 7 years in the league. Looks to me like he knows a bit about coaching. The previous director left the club in disarray and it's going to take a little time to get some momentum.

The point is competency as far as developing players goes and picking the ones worth developing. PDL players come already developed. The barometer is how younger players are faring since the new director's arrival. And it's a shame given the monopoly Seacoast has the area but since A.B.'s arrival, the skill level, reflected blatantly by the change in win/loss records has been steadily in decline. It doesn't take long for change to be affected for better or worse when new leadership takes over in soccer. Players have left and others that live in NH chose to stay away because they have eyes and ears.

Previous director was not going to win any personality contest but his teams (Westchester) left no question about who knows more about developing and coaching soccer players when the teams played a week ago.

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The point is competency as far as developing players goes and picking the ones worth developing. PDL players come already developed. The barometer is how younger players are faring since the new director's arrival. And it's a shame given the monopoly Seacoast has the area but since A.B.'s arrival, the skill level, reflected blatantly by the change in win/loss records has been steadily in decline. It doesn't take long for change to be affected for better or worse when new leadership takes over in soccer. Players have left and others that live in NH chose to stay away because they have eyes and ears.

Previous director was not going to win any personality contest but his teams (Westchester) left no question about who knows more about developing and coaching soccer players when the teams played a week ago.

...so now we know who started this stupid thread and has been posting all this crap.

Show some class and move on dude! That's life.

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The point is competency as far as developing players goes and picking the ones worth developing. PDL players come already developed. The barometer is how younger players are faring since the new director's arrival. And it's a shame given the monopoly Seacoast has the area but since A.B.'s arrival, the skill level, reflected blatantly by the change in win/loss records has been steadily in decline. It doesn't take long for change to be affected for better or worse when new leadership takes over in soccer. Players have left and others that live in NH chose to stay away because they have eyes and ears.

Previous director was not going to win any personality contest but his teams (Westchester) left no question about who knows more about developing and coaching soccer players when the teams played a week ago.

Old director was not quite a saint off the field.. lots of rumors in Seacoast about being very close to a former U18 girls player. one of the reasons he was fired.

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You know the answer is none of those schools. You don't engage 25 coaches when those schools are on the list.

What you do is thank all the schools that have contacted you and then you narrow it down to top three, then go on visit to each of them. Then you let each coach know about the other so they know they have made the right decision, then you pick the college. Pretty simple to figure out IF you have a player. 😀