The coach in my D team is leaving by the end of this season. Nobody has any idea who will be the new coach. The team is one of the best in the club, but we won't get the best coaches in the club. Someone said they would recruit an "outstanding" one. Now the club is asking families to commit 2021/2022 season. $500 first down-payment when sign-up. The dead line was 2 weeks ago. The contract to sign is a joke, without any specific information. Many families are looking for other options. Is this common? Any advice?
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run!!Originally posted by unregistered View Post -
This sounds like a SPOL move. Did the same thing to my son's team a couple years back. Foolishly we stayed but only until we found out in July the new coach was just a parent. Lost $500 but best move we made.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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It is common and in some fairness to the clubs they can't be 100% certain themselves. Coaches leave, sometimes unexpectedly, and hiring new coaches doesn't happen over night. That coach could have left in July and then what would you have done?Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Tell the club you won't commit until you know who the coach is and see if they blink. Another option is to try and rally a large group of families together and tell the club none of you will sign without it - good luck on that. Meanwhile, keep other options open if you can. Hopefully you've been checking out other clubs? Never put all your soccer eggs in one basket. Each and every year March/April evaluate your kid's/teams/clubs situation. Things change all the time and what might be great in the fall suddenly falls apart in the spring. Always have a backup plan, even if you never need to actually use itComment
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Those of you who pay for private school, is your kids teacher guaranteed each year when you begin your payments over the summer and sign up in the spring? No. Same for club. They do the best they can but coaches come and go and movement happens just like in schools. Stop being so entitled.Comment
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If each club had the same basic level of standards for coaches as your average private school has for their teachers then it wouldn't be as much an issue. There is also the fact that your kid will have a half dozen different teachers in a given year at school, so one dinger will have an impact but shouldn't derail the entire year, but they will only have one coach. Your analogy needs some work.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
But it does bring up an interesting point. The conventional wisdom says to find the right coach for your player; someone who they will develop with well. Coaches have different styles and kids react differently to these styles so there's a lot of sense to that wisdom. When you can't tell who your coach is before signing up how can you know if the player/coach combination is the right one? From a parent's point of view this is one of the most frustrating things about club sports.Comment
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No many times you do not know who your kids teachers will be - you'll have a general idea and perhaps if there's only one 5th grade teacher you know they'll have that teacher. But as another pointed out your kid will have more than just that one teacher for other subjects etc. Also that 5th grade teacher could leave or be reassigned over the summer. Private school teachers renew their contracts late spring for the next year but that doesn't mean they'll all stay/new ones won't be hired.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
like with a club, at a private school you're putting faith into the organization that they hire good people and you'd be happy with most of their hires. If you only want 1-2 coaches at a club and none of the rest you shouldn't be there. Most likely you'll wind up angry and disappointed. More importantly, if a club can't provide a large group of mostly suitable coaches that says a lot about the quality of the club and managementComment
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You need to look at their entire coach supply and ask if you'd be ok with nearly all of them. If you only want 1-2 specific ones it's probably not going to work out and probably not a well run club anyway. If you're already at a club it's easy enough to ask around about different coaches, watch them at practices etc. But the fact is coaches come and go, plus clubs often need to reassign based on staffing needs. If you like "most" of the coaches it should be fine. If you'd be upset getting "most" of them why are you there?Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Thanks for all kind advice. Sorry, I can’t specifically say the name of team/coach/club, before we formally leave the club. It’s really a good team, a lot of gifted players. They need a good coach for sure, otherwise all will be wasted. The ones parents like are at “technical director level”. I don’t think we can get anyone of them. All others are... ...
Now, I am looking around. The landscape of soccer clubs is not promising at all.Comment
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Don't burn your bridges in case you can't find anything else better. It may work out in the long run, but you're a bit late in the tryout process and may be disappointed.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Does anyone know if Juventus announced the winners for the Golden ticket yet? They promised players they were taking them to Italy.Comment
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