2016 Girls High School Soccer

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Don't get personal pal. You have no clue. High Honors student at one of the best public schools in RI. Do your homework before you make a dumb comment.

personal???...i saw no names...mmmmm .t classes are great for public schools....also didn't see the ratings for pub school in Portsmouth...must be that big fan blowing all that smoke up peps *****...

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2016 Girls High School Soccer

personal???...i saw no names...mmmmm .t classes are great for public schools....also didn't see the ratings for pub school in Portsmouth...must be that big fan blowing all that smoke up peps *****...

The fact that you are discussing this in a soccer thread is pathetic. FYI, in the latest State raking of High Schools, Portsmouth comes in at #3. I know MKM personally, she returned to Portsmouth because she missed her friends. She is an extremely nice kid with a very bright academic and sport career at Duke. Why all the hate???

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The fact that you are discussing this in a soccer thread is pathetic. FYI, in the latest State raking of High Schools, Portsmouth comes in at #3. I know MKM personally, she returned to Portsmouth because she missed her friends. She is an extremely nice kid with a very bright academic and sport career at Duke. Why all the hate???

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I am not from Portsmouth or affiliated with MKM in anyway, but you are a piece of jealous crap. Please do let us know where you live, which school system your daughter is educated at, and her name, so the rest of us can then google up some trash about all of that. Grow up and focus on your own child. I'm all for a little trash talking about games/teams, but this sh%t going on here is about as lame and low as it comes.

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Be happy that little Rhody can produce quality players regardless who's her parent, what school she plays for or club. Can we all just enjoy that some of our players are talented enough and they are competing at some of the highest levels. As a coach I'm thrilled a handful of those girls that played this past weekend will continue to play this beautiful game.

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Are you on coke??? He is the nicest guy. If you actually knew him, you would know. Go back to your hole troll.

Egotistical loud mouth. You know him so you know what I am talking about. Nicest guy...please.

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It was 4-0, they absolutely belonged in that game. North Kingston was outplayed up the field, down the field, and in the back of the net.

Obviously you weren't at that game. First half belonged to NK, easily. Outplayed and out shot Cumb 5-1. A couple of crossbars and a post kept Cumb in the game. One or two of those go in Cumberland was out. But that didn't happen. I don't think you can blame the ref as much as missed chances by Nk in the first half and two long shots for Cumberland (good shots but could have been saved) at the end of the first and beginning of the second. The rest of the second half belonged to Cumb after that NK defender went down and then the bench was unloaded for NK.
Good game but the score doesn't honestly reflect the match. I think this is a more honest assessment of the game. Go Blue! We are proud of you!

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It's $15k. LL is a lousy coach.

Totally agree. The worst coach ever, the girls win in spite of her... doesn't know talent or anything about how to play the game. Get rid of her.

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Totally agree. The worst coach ever, the girls win in spite of her... doesn't know talent or anything about how to play the game. Get rid of her.

Is there such a thing as a "good high school coach"?.... seems to be a rare commodity.

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Not sure if you are aware but 14800...with sports 14k credit...so 800 for private is comparison to public....plus my town i have to pay for books...so 935....get your facts straight.

*Don't forget the public pays for private school transportation costs within the catchment area..that's a lot more than the books*

I think that was the OP point..although the privates aren't allowed to give *athletic* aid, there is no mechanism to check that except self-policing by the privates or maybe a blatant recruiting slip-up where they get caught.

There is no requirement for example to show "merit/need" aid for athletes versus non-athletes and while normally that is none of the pubilc's business, it's the privates who want to be in the public league..but since RIIL is controlled by the privates, it won't happen. Also, the catholic privates get "aid" from the diocese education fund..

And while you can point to a Portsmouth or Smithfield in girls soccer, that only shows you need a MKM or AJ (maybe not sufficient, but certainly necessary) to compete with LSA.

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Is there such a thing as a "good high school coach"?.... seems to be a rare commodity.

I could say is there such a thing as a "good high school parent" that trolls this site?
You have HS coaches in every sport that basically volunteer their time to coach little Johnny's and Mary's who are looked at through rose colored glasses by mommy and daddy.
Before you evaluate your coach or coaches... evaluate your own player, honestly at that. Then the talent level of the team. Then you can see, if you are honest about it, where your team belongs. LSA is lucky because they are a private school. We can all agree on that. So you can judge their coach a little harsher if you wish. But... They are in the finals every year as they should be. So how can she be a bad coach?
It's not the coaches it's us as parents. If you are happy with your coach she/he is great, if not he/she sucks! Every team has parents that either like the coach or dislike the coach. They aren't professional coaches and have real jobs. People put way too much stock in soccer or any sport for that matter. It is an activity for the players (as competitive as it might be sometimes) it is also one for the coaches.
I thought this was a great season for the players, parents and coaches alike. We were in the playoffs, my daughter was happy playing soccer with her friends, we played some good soccer and some not so good at times. Do I blame the coaches? Not really, because they are coaching kid.... not professionals or college players!
The parents I encountered from different schools handled themselves with a lot of class. There were a few idiots but that's everywhere. Cheers to a great season for the players, coaches and fans!

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I could say is there such a thing as a "good high school parent" that trolls this site?
You have HS coaches in every sport that basically volunteer their time to coach little Johnny's and Mary's who are looked at through rose colored glasses by mommy and daddy.
Before you evaluate your coach or coaches... evaluate your own player, honestly at that. Then the talent level of the team. Then you can see, if you are honest about it, where your team belongs. LSA is lucky because they are a private school. We can all agree on that. So you can judge their coach a little harsher if you wish. But... They are in the finals every year as they should be. So how can she be a bad coach?

Good points in general..but..

Most coaches get paid..yeah, it's probably for D1 in the $2-3K range, but nobody is forcing them as an "extra duty" like at some privates where teachers have to multi-task...and for some coaches, let's be honest there is a bit of ego involved in taking the HS job given as you note it's a side activity.

Ref LSA - the point is LSA should be in the finals, probably should win 9 out of 10 years easily in the current RIIL system and win 95% of the time, even if you let the team captains pretty much run the show. The coach there is to recruit (wink wink but we know it happens even if not overtly), use the extra advantages privates have, and be the factor in winning that 10th time or that 5% match, especially as the talent seems to be in decline in RI. Cumby gave a gift to LSA last year in the finals and LSA should have won this year as well..LSA was the better overall team last year, this year..every year for the last 15 years.. It's not an easy position given the competitive advantages mean less than a state title is failure and those advantages create a fair amount of backlash - which is not the coach's or players' fault - against privates and LSA specifically in girls soccer.

Yep, parents are a big problem..refs aren't perfect (although many games I saw were either adequate or the poor quality was equally dispersed on both sides)..and the biggest issue this year is with RIIL for creating divisions (at least in D1/D2) that were far more unbalanced than in the past.. good suggestions posted earlier on the topic that RIIL should, but won't, consider.

If your child had fun and a good experience, that's wonderful. I do wish some coaches would not create some issues by letting (select) parents become too involved as managers or fundraisers, by thinking their two and half month season is the same situation as a club team and focusing way too much on technical/fitness as opposed to teaching/practicing sound situational tactics based on the team composition, and by overscheduling/overanalyzing their players (my own pet peeve is the 10-15 minute "talk" after the game when the players should be stretching/cooling down)..

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question

Were AD and JR the only two Cumberland players that got offers and committed this week? That's the way it looked. I guess they are the two bigger pieces surrounded by smaller ones.

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Were AD and JR the only two Cumberland players that got offers and committed this week? That's the way it looked. I guess they are the two bigger pieces surrounded by smaller ones.

First of all this is irrelevant and second of all they didn't commit this week. They have been committed. Cumberland was a team nit two players.

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I guess

First of all this is irrelevant and second of all they didn't commit this week. They have been committed. Cumberland was a team nit two players.

I guess, but its been quiet as to other starting seniors getting looked at/committed.