Lamphere High School

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Just keep the players away from his brother!

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i would love to know if any of this is true, if a coach did the things or even had kids leave I would be worried, someone should know him and have some sort of reaal info to either back up this stuff or explain

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I know for a fact that he is a liar, lied on numerous occasions to me directly, and about silly stuff (mostly about not breaking small rules and bragging a bit too much) which I didn't really think about until I read this stuff. It doesn't surprise me. He is quite a salesman (Rick).

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* B E L L P E P P E R * = R i c k C (Didn't want to give M a r k a bad name)

LHS

Does anyone know if the board knows about all of this, especially the part about the AD not investigating ie talking to the girls involved? It seems that the problem here is that no one truly knows the truth, if there was communication between the AD and the girls and the coach (and the parents) there wouldn't be any reason for all these posts. in other words wheres there smoke there SEEMS to be fire. A simple discussion between the parties would most likely blow the smoke away and either reveal a coach that should not be coaching or simply a coach that has been wronged by silly allegations. So, does the board, super, AD know about all of this and have they looked into it by asking, discussing it with the parties involved? Obviously if they care about the kids, they will do this...

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Simple. Copy and mail/Email this thread to each individual board member plus the superintendent plus the athletic director. Also, send to Fred Girard at the Detroit News.

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This would be a great fair-well story to add to Fred's award winning Story of MC.

Fred will be leaving the News rather soon. Why not send to him?

Good point

Will Do!

LHS

tell them to google "lamphere soccer" great publicity for your school :?

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What are we looking for? :-#

Coach Rick

If 1 and 2 are true, would coach be fired?
(1) It was a tryout with a convicted felon. One who is banned from youth soccer on all levels. He wrote letters to teen girls from his jail cell. You didn’t even talk to your girls parents, simply badgered your players on numerous occasions, that the tryout was an important opportunity, which would be important to their HS soccer careers… Best part is the flat denial to the AD when confronted, and you lied to him, your boss… Because this is a fire-able offense
(2) So, is it poaching when you constantly tell a few of your HS players that they need your coaching abilities to “go to the next level”? So much so, that said girls literally try to avoid having one on one conversations with you because they know it will eventually lead to how important it is that the girl goes to VE tryouts. The girls said it was a weekly discussion, well actually a one way discussion. Best part is the flat denial to the AD when confronted, and you lied to him, your boss… Because this is also a fire-able offense.
(3) True, it ended up that you didn’t need to step down as coach of u16gVE, but don’t you wonder why not even one – not one - of your Lamphere girls came to your tryouts, not even the three (one varsity and two jv) that played for you last Spring. If your team respected, liked, played so hard for you, and you are such a good coach, why did they all run from you? Can you explain this interesting behavior?
(4) Why have all the girls that have been coached by you say that you are not a good coach? They say that all you do is tell them how bad they are, and what they have done wrong, and that they haven’t been coached right in the past, and that they can’t do this right and can’t do that right, and are selfish, and can’t finish, and the criticisms go on and on – yet not one of the girls can say what you have taught them about the game. Interesting.
You definitely can take them to the next level… lol
(5) These girls have progressed under the training and coaching they have received and have chosen over you. They started in MYSL and progressed to MSP and progressed from classic divisions to P2. These girls under the coaching and training of a “nice” guy who never played the game, have never been moved down a division and have beaten numerous teams ranked/rated higher than them. They have done quite well under the coaching and training of someone who gets NO MONEY for what he does – NO MONEY WHATSOEVER. Unlike yourself, who gets quite a bit of money for what? For lying to parents who write the checks to you… For telling your students they suck… Great mentor… Awesome motivator… very funny though
(6) Just the fact that there are good soccer players (one was your second on your team in points, and another was forth in points) that are going to play softball next year – because you are coaching the team. They told me that if ANYONE else was coaching, – the math teacher, the bus driver, the janitor – they would play soccer. Yet they plan to play softball simply because you are the coach. This is not just one or two BUT FOUR OR FIVE players from last year, THREE OR FOUR VARSITY STARTERS!!! Does this not tell you how bad of a coach or at least how much these players do not respect you? And will not play for you?

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:-"

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:^o

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As expected, no one has the balls to do the right thing. Easier to complain on a forum...maybe even more fun. If I had a daugher at Lamphere, I would not have hesitated to make the calls.

They dont have the balzzzz

Not one, but at least four calls were made and three face to face visits that I know of, and Russ (the AD) simply did not investigate the allegations, IE he never asked he girls anything, of course, that maybe because he knew the prez of the school board hired this clown, and knows the prez believes R is a great coach (of course the prez's younger daughter, ie "They are coming" [Mlive, lol], was coached and trained by the one and the only Mark C) and can do nothing wrong but even lsd prez heard some interesting aspects of Rick's motivational techniques, but they all believed him and not one talked to the girls, Especially the girls who no longer want to play soccer because he is the coach of Lamphere. I have nothing against rick, except for the fact the HE alone is screwing up any chances that a small div three school could make a splash on the HS scene, except that he alone can screw up a good thing being selfish and looking for the silver lining in his world of career soccer coaching... Am I wrong? Does anyone have a word to defend the "good" Christensen brother???