The Herndon Cup was an absolute embarrassment

[Anonymous]

What a complete and epic $hitshow this tournament was. We always looked forward to this event, but I assume this is it's last year.

Traveling between two fields all day, neither field had one compitant adult present, not one. At Arrowhead, the two dimwitted teenagers checking scores in were too busy juggling the ball back and forth on the sidelines in between two benches, kicking the ball into the field several times.

I get that there's a ref shortage and it really is unfortunate, but for some ungodly reason they were adding stoppage time. At one point the field was two games behind. But it can't all be blamed on the refs, because several ended up leaving, requiring parents to ref.

It was a really poorly run event. There is a reason adults run swim meets, I wish the Herndon Cup did the same.

[Anonymous]

I was at a basketball game today and there was clearly a new ref getting trained. It was terrible. I don’t believe the ref, as much as I do the parents who have been things untenable for refs.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, I thought it was a lot better than the tournament our league did in the spring (Valor All Star). That was the worst All Star tournament we have ever experienced and my kids are teens so we have been around. If your org does that in the spring, take a hard pass.

They should have adults from the tournament present at each field. Poor planning. Especially for an age group like U9 with so many teams and lots of newbie parents and newbie coaches.

I don't understand why they can't modernize the score keeping fo this tournament. Putting everything in manually and then seeding literally by hand--don't expect to see schedules for tomorrow until late.

[Anonymous]

Sorry your team lost a rec league tournament.
You get what you pay for and the Herndon Cup provides a nice experience for rec league kids at end of season. Without it your kids would be home, so if you prefer staying at home then just do that and get an early start on your narcissistic Thanksgiving rants

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry your team lost a rec league tournament.
You get what you pay for and the Herndon Cup provides a nice experience for rec league kids at end of season. Without it your kids would be home, so if you prefer staying at home then just do that and get an early start on your narcissistic Thanksgiving rants

The tournament is not cheap. They should have paid referees for the games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a complete and epic $hitshow this tournament was. We always looked forward to this event, but I assume this is it's last year.

Traveling between two fields all day, neither field had one compitant adult present, not one. At Arrowhead, the two dimwitted teenagers checking scores in were too busy juggling the ball back and forth on the sidelines in between two benches, kicking the ball into the field several times.

I get that there's a ref shortage and it really is unfortunate, but for some ungodly reason they were adding stoppage time. At one point the field was two games behind. But it can't all be blamed on the refs, because several ended up leaving, requiring parents to ref.

It was a really poorly run event. There is a reason adults run swim meets, I wish the Herndon Cup did the same.

Why would you assume that? Unless you mean its your last year attending, which is understandable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a complete and epic $hitshow this tournament was. We always looked forward to this event, but I assume this is it's last year.

Traveling between two fields all day, neither field had one compitant adult present, not one. At Arrowhead, the two dimwitted teenagers checking scores in were too busy juggling the ball back and forth on the sidelines in between two benches, kicking the ball into the field several times.

I get that there's a ref shortage and it really is unfortunate, but for some ungodly reason they were adding stoppage time. At one point the field was two games behind. But it can't all be blamed on the refs, because several ended up leaving, requiring parents to ref.

It was a really poorly run event. There is a reason adults run swim meets, I wish the Herndon Cup did the same.

Why would you assume that? Unless you mean its your last year attending, which is understandable.

Look, we have the first "adult" ready to help run this hapless experience!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a complete and epic $hitshow this tournament was. We always looked forward to this event, but I assume this is it's last year.

Traveling between two fields all day, neither field had one compitant adult present, not one. At Arrowhead, the two dimwitted teenagers checking scores in were too busy juggling the ball back and forth on the sidelines in between two benches, kicking the ball into the field several times.

I get that there's a ref shortage and it really is unfortunate, but for some ungodly reason they were adding stoppage time. At one point the field was two games behind. But it can't all be blamed on the refs, because several ended up leaving, requiring parents to ref.

It was a really poorly run event. There is a reason adults run swim meets, I wish the Herndon Cup did the same.

Why would you assume that? Unless you mean its your last year attending, which is understandable.

Look, we have the first "adult" ready to help run this hapless experience!

Its run by parent volunteers from Herndon soccer. Do you not understand that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a complete and epic $hitshow this tournament was. We always looked forward to this event, but I assume this is it's last year.

Traveling between two fields all day, neither field had one compitant adult present, not one. At Arrowhead, the two dimwitted teenagers checking scores in were too busy juggling the ball back and forth on the sidelines in between two benches, kicking the ball into the field several times.

I get that there's a ref shortage and it really is unfortunate, but for some ungodly reason they were adding stoppage time. At one point the field was two games behind. But it can't all be blamed on the refs, because several ended up leaving, requiring parents to ref.

It was a really poorly run event. There is a reason adults run swim meets, I wish the Herndon Cup did the same.

Why would you assume that? Unless you mean its your last year attending, which is understandable.

Look, we have the first "adult" ready to help run this hapless experience!

Its run by parent volunteers from Herndon soccer. Do you not understand that?

It is unfortunate that they took this year off from being present at any of the locations.

I also know an affiliate group had to seek permission to sell food, so it wasn't even these so-called parent volunteers working the food sales.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a complete and epic $hitshow this tournament was. We always looked forward to this event, but I assume this is it's last year.

Traveling between two fields all day, neither field had one compitant adult present, not one. At Arrowhead, the two dimwitted teenagers checking scores in were too busy juggling the ball back and forth on the sidelines in between two benches, kicking the ball into the field several times.

I get that there's a ref shortage and it really is unfortunate, but for some ungodly reason they were adding stoppage time. At one point the field was two games behind. But it can't all be blamed on the refs, because several ended up leaving, requiring parents to ref.

It was a really poorly run event. There is a reason adults run swim meets, I wish the Herndon Cup did the same.

Why would you assume that? Unless you mean its your last year attending, which is understandable.

Look, we have the first "adult" ready to help run this hapless experience!

Its run by parent volunteers from Herndon soccer. Do you not understand that?

It is unfortunate that they took this year off from being present at any of the locations.

I also know an affiliate group had to seek permission to sell food, so it wasn't even these so-called parent volunteers working the food sales.

Maybe they should have cancelled the tournament and you could have stayed home!!

A shame the volunteers who were willing to organize and give up their weekend to enable kids to play soccer and raise scholarship funds decided to go ahead on a beautiful fall weekend and ruin your day

[Anonymous]

$500 for a tournament divided by a roster of 15 works out to about $31 for the weekend. Pretty cheap as tournaments go and the proceeds go to a good cause.

Too bad your kid did not get to bring home a trophy which cost about $25 a piece to subsidize your expenses.

Odds are your home club made a profit off your registration. As if they didn’t already make enough profit off your regular season registration fees for volunteer parent coacednteams. SFL was essentially free registration to clubs last couple seasons - did those savings get passed on to your team and families? Doubt it. $175 x 17 players is $2975 less about $400 true costs (don’t be fooled by field permits which are for club not team or insurance (please)). Congrats your home club made about $2500 off you as a nonprofit and then used that to subsidize the salary of the executive director and travel administrator.

The real travesty is off the field.

[Anonymous]

I don't know anything about tournament profits but agree our club (MYS) has made a fortune off our SFL teams the last few seasons. They only get one practice per week and have huge rosters. Its really irritating how these "nonprofits" just want to screw over and profit from rec kids.

[Anonymous]

Why are defenders of this pathetic tournament continuing to say "I'm sorry you kid didn't win a trophy." Mine is winning hers today, in spite of this tournament's pitiful management by disinterested teenagers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are defenders of this pathetic tournament continuing to say "I'm sorry you kid didn't win a trophy." Mine is winning hers today, in spite of this tournament's pitiful management by disinterested teenagers.

Perhaps they shouldn't hold the tourny on a weekend when many other travel tournaments are occurring- orgs that that pay their refs more money. Of course you're getting bottom of the barrel at this rec tournament.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are defenders of this pathetic tournament continuing to say "I'm sorry you kid didn't win a trophy." Mine is winning hers today, in spite of this tournament's pitiful management by disinterested teenagers.

Perhaps they shouldn't hold the tourny on a weekend when many other travel tournaments are occurring- orgs that that pay their refs more money. Of course you're getting bottom of the barrel at this rec tournament.

This rec tournament has been held this weekend for like 25 years. I played in it!

Do they pay less for referees then travel tournaments do?