Troy Letherman

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yeah so these coaches are crap, they need to go, but XF is understaffed. There isn't anyone else to take these teams or step up and run things. The natural choice for director would be Steve, but he's on leave to care for a family member. They don't have any other coaches qualified to coach ECNL that don't already have 3-4 teams. Perhaps the second these guys are gone and the culture changes some of the coaches that left in the past few years would be willing to come back and take one team for a year to keep things afloat. My guess is they will get rid of Bernie, he only has one team and see if that quiets everything down. Billy needs to go too, no idea about Legg, but he doesn't have a great track record.

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Justi was not a pay and you play coach. Stop putting her in that group.

she was in the if you can play, then you play group.

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Glad Troy and his “friend” Justi are gone. No more pay for play and playing favorites with parents who buy them drinks.

Not sure if Troy and Justi did this. But well-known private training coach Michael and Bernie's good friend Mark did it for sure.

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LOL Metzger is not pay to play, he does a lot of trainings, but they have no bearing on minutes. He plays every kid every game, almost even time. He's a development coach so every kid plays. Was a big shock to players on my kids team when they got a new coach and their minutes went from about even to 6min a half. When we traveled he would play the subs even more because he wasn't going to have kids fly somewhere and not play, he even started a game with all subs just to be nice. He got 6 kids moved up in 2 years at 11v11 age group, damn good results. He may be an old guy that played with Bernie, but they aren't friends, and are nothing alike.

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LOL Metzger is not pay to play, he does a lot of trainings, but they have no bearing on minutes. He plays every kid every game, almost even time. He's a development coach so every kid plays. Was a big shock to players on my kids team when they got a new coach and their minutes went from about even to 6min a half. When we traveled he would play the subs even more because he wasn't going to have kids fly somewhere and not play, he even started a game with all subs just to be nice. He got 6 kids moved up in 2 years at 11v11 age group, damn good results. He may be an old guy that played with Bernie, but they aren't friends, and are nothing alike.

Mark typically only coaches the 3rd teams. Sometimes the 2nd teams. So it does seem reasonable that he would fair play everyone. If he fair played kids on the ECNL teams the parents would throw sheattt fits.

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She wont have that luxury at Pac. She may also have to pay attention now and practices and games.

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LOL Metzger is not pay to play, he does a lot of trainings, but they have no bearing on minutes. He plays every kid every game, almost even time. He's a development coach so every kid plays. Was a big shock to players on my kids team when they got a new coach and their minutes went from about even to 6min a half. When we traveled he would play the subs even more because he wasn't going to have kids fly somewhere and not play, he even started a game with all subs just to be nice. He got 6 kids moved up in 2 years at 11v11 age group, damn good results. He may be an old guy that played with Bernie, but they aren't friends, and are nothing alike.

I agree Mark is a very good coach, very fair and supportive and interested in player development. He also is great guy and fun to talk to.

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I agree Mark is a very good coach, very fair and supportive and interested in player development. He also is great guy and fun to talk to.

are you guys kidding me?

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are you guys kidding me?

I’m literally laughing out loud

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Good for you. Hope that makes you feel like you’re a better human being by patting yourself on the back and putting down others.

I read that he had an affair with another mom in the past and had a child with this person?

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I'm not trying to be a snarky a hole I really don't know. I have heard on these boards and people discussing Troy. It looks like people are going to Eastside for him. Is it his drills, his connections, how he treats kids? He seems like a draw.What is it about him?

Why does Troy look like a guy who works at the county fair?

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She wont have that luxury at Pac. She may also have to pay attention now and practices and games.

well for someone who supposedly doesn’t pay attention she sure has a pretty darn good record. She has also helped her players with college, players called into National camp and I believe she was good enough to coach All Star Team.

Also, her former players come home from college and go to her trainings.

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I agree 100%.

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LOL Metzger is not pay to play, he does a lot of trainings, but they have no bearing on minutes. He plays every kid every game, almost even time. He's a development coach so every kid plays. Was a big shock to players on my kids team when they got a new coach and their minutes went from about even to 6min a half. When we traveled he would play the subs even more because he wasn't going to have kids fly somewhere and not play, he even started a game with all subs just to be nice. He got 6 kids moved up in 2 years at 11v11 age group, damn good results. He may be an old guy that played with Bernie, but they aren't friends and are nothing alike.

I learn US youth soccer by watching Metzger's practice. Not what he does with the players. Frequently there are player family members bringing all kinds of goodies to Metzger. Coffer, pizza, homemade dinner, sandwich, juice, gift cards, and things I can't tell. He also has private lessons with players in the same age group he is coaching. Then I saw those players playing more and more on the field or guest playing on the upper team. He promotes good players to the upper team. But some of those families are "working hard" with Mark. He also had a player acting like an assistant coach. Seems like the player's father reached some life development plan with Mark.

It made me think if soccer is the right sport for my kid. I was very very confused. Not sure what I should say to my kid about things that happened in the game or practice. Luckily we got a different coach the following year. No more under-table deals.

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I learn US youth soccer by watching Metzger's practice. Not what he does with the players. Frequently there are player family members bringing all kinds of goodies to Metzger. Coffer, pizza, homemade dinner, sandwich, juice, gift cards, and things I can't tell. He also has private lessons with players in the same age group he is coaching. Then I saw those players playing more and more on the field or guest playing on the upper team. He promotes good players to the upper team. But some of those families are "working hard" with Mark. He also had a player acting like an assistant coach. Seems like the player's father reached some life development plan with Mark.

It made me think if soccer is the right sport for my kid. I was very very confused. Not sure what I should say to my kid about things that happened in the game or practice. Luckily we got a different coach the following year. No more under-table deals.

You said juice LMAOO