Spirit Coach

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
This is where you embarrassed yourself. You'd crawl up and die under a rock if you ever knew who you just tried to patronize.
I'm not going to lord it over you though. Word to the wise - if the truth of your worldview depends solely on the premise of you being the best athlete to ever live - then you might want to open your mind a little but there champ...

Dipsht coaches ranting and raving is not them doing their job - it is behavior that is tolerated if they can also do their job. The professionals are in control of their emotions and use anger as a tool only sparingly if at all. A look without words from a gaffer I respected said more to me at halftime to make me raise my game than any ranting clownshow ever could.

Boorish bully behavior is normalized and excused by the weak, and tolerated by the craven if a team is winning. Once the results are crappy the crappy coaches/crappy human beings are gone too.

Wow, you are very self important, aren't you!

No, I think the OP is honest. I really don’t understand what you believe you are defending but a$$h0le behavior is nothing more than that. It isn’t some kind of genius, it reflects a lack of maturity, a lack of communication skills and a lack of imagination.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
This is where you embarrassed yourself. You'd crawl up and die under a rock if you ever knew who you just tried to patronize.
I'm not going to lord it over you though. Word to the wise - if the truth of your worldview depends solely on the premise of you being the best athlete to ever live - then you might want to open your mind a little but there champ...

Dipsht coaches ranting and raving is not them doing their job - it is behavior that is tolerated if they can also do their job. The professionals are in control of their emotions and use anger as a tool only sparingly if at all. A look without words from a gaffer I respected said more to me at halftime to make me raise my game than any ranting clownshow ever could.

Boorish bully behavior is normalized and excused by the weak, and tolerated by the craven if a team is winning. Once the results are crappy the crappy coaches/crappy human beings are gone too.

Wow, you are very self important, aren't you!

No, I think the OP is honest. I really don’t understand what you believe you are defending but a$$h0le behavior is nothing more than that. It isn’t some kind of genius, it reflects a lack of maturity, a lack of communication skills and a lack of imagination.

+100

[Anonymous]

Here's another peach - coach for Villareal in Virginia. Just a 10 minutes clip of many that show him screaming at his own players and an 8 minutes fighting with the referee that stopped play - all started over the ref stopping play at mid-field to help HIS injured player. Called the ref "a real class act and disrespectful" among a series of other things. The sad part is when one of his players says, "I just want to play." No idea how this guy stays with a club.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOBSNEZR0Q

[Anonymous]

I wish you people would lay into the Spirit players for stealing paychecks by the poor effort they give and the poor results they earn. They are a true disappointment on the pitch. We win as a team and lose as a team. Dont make it all out to be the coaches fault.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's another peach - coach for Villareal in Virginia. Just a 10 minutes clip of many that show him screaming at his own players and an 8 minutes fighting with the referee that stopped play - all started over the ref stopping play at mid-field to help HIS injured player. Called the ref "a real class act and disrespectful" among a series of other things. The sad part is when one of his players says, "I just want to play." No idea how this guy stays with a club.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOBSNEZR0Q

My thoughts
1) they are little kids
2) that is some ugly soccer being played
3) why is it being filmed?

I couldn't make out all the rabbiting on of the coach - other than to know he sounded annoying AF. Given the low standard of play on the field he would do well to shut up and instead reflect on the obvious problems with the "boot it upfield and hope for best" tactics.

People who talk about "being disrespected" often haven't done much to earn respect in my experience.

Good example of loud mouth yet crappy coach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish you people would lay into the Spirit players for stealing paychecks by the poor effort they give and the poor results they earn. They are a true disappointment on the pitch. We win as a team and lose as a team. Dont make it all out to be the coaches fault.

1.) The team is .500. 2.) The league minimum is $22K with a max of $51K. Stealing that amount of a paycheck is probably a low level misdemeanor. 3.) Learn the facts before you spout off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish you people would lay into the Spirit players for stealing paychecks by the poor effort they give and the poor results they earn. They are a true disappointment on the pitch. We win as a team and lose as a team. Dont make it all out to be the coaches fault.

1.) The team is .500. 2.) The league minimum is $22K with a max of $51K. Stealing that amount of a paycheck is probably a low level misdemeanor. 3.) Learn the facts before you spout off.

!. They are paid to win, not only half the time.
2. even 22K is more than the profit they are bringing in.The team is losing money.
3. Know what your talking about first asshat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish you people would lay into the Spirit players for stealing paychecks by the poor effort they give and the poor results they earn. They are a true disappointment on the pitch. We win as a team and lose as a team. Dont make it all out to be the coaches fault.

1.) The team is .500. 2.) The league minimum is $22K with a max of $51K. Stealing that amount of a paycheck is probably a low level misdemeanor. 3.) Learn the facts before you spout off.

!. They are paid to win, not only half the time.
2. even 22K is more than the profit they are bringing in.The team is losing money.
3. Know what your talking about first asshat.

It's "you're"...maybe don't try to insult peoples' intelligence while making 2nd grade grammar errors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish you people would lay into the Spirit players for stealing paychecks by the poor effort they give and the poor results they earn. They are a true disappointment on the pitch. We win as a team and lose as a team. Dont make it all out to be the coaches fault.

1.) The team is .500. 2.) The league minimum is $22K with a max of $51K. Stealing that amount of a paycheck is probably a low level misdemeanor. 3.) Learn the facts before you spout off.

!. They are paid to win, not only half the time.
2. even 22K is more than the profit they are bringing in.The team is losing money.
3. Know what your talking about first asshat.

Then RB should both won and not be an asshat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish you people would lay into the Spirit players for stealing paychecks by the poor effort they give and the poor results they earn. They are a true disappointment on the pitch. We win as a team and lose as a team. Dont make it all out to be the coaches fault.

1.) The team is .500. 2.) The league minimum is $22K with a max of $51K. Stealing that amount of a paycheck is probably a low level misdemeanor. 3.) Learn the facts before you spout off.

!. They are paid to win, not only half the time.
2. even 22K is more than the profit they are bringing in.The team is losing money.
3. Know what your talking about first asshat.

It's "you're"...maybe don't try to insult peoples' intelligence while making 2nd grade grammar errors.

Ok nerd and I bet ur soccer IQ is that of egg plant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact coaches have such a short span is maybe is a clue they are doing it wrong.

Top athletes have the upper hand - teams pay a lot of money for stars and will have limited tolerance for a coach who makes them ride the bench. The best relationships are built on (often grudging) mutual respect not fear, abuse or constant drama. Some US coaches saw the "lowlight" reel of bad behavior and think that is the whole ballgame - cycle perpetuates as then attracts aholes who want an excuse to act like that so they can feel good about themselves - and people now expect coach to show "passion" and "desire to win" with such behaviors and act as apologists for them.

People used to say Harvey Weinstein was a great director and his actions were all part of the package and the "cost of doing business" - and that people just didn't understand what it takes to be a top creative - turns out that just isn't true either.

You dont get it but thats okay. Very few outside of high level sports do.

This is where you embarrassed yourself. You'd crawl up and die under a rock if you ever knew who you just tried to patronize.
I'm not going to lord it over you though. Word to the wise - if the truth of your worldview depends solely on the premise of you being the best athlete to ever live - then you might want to open your mind a little but there champ...

Dipsht coaches ranting and raving is not them doing their job - it is behavior that is tolerated if they can also do their job. The professionals are in control of their emotions and use anger as a tool only sparingly if at all. A look without words from a gaffer I respected said more to me at halftime to make me raise my game than any ranting clownshow ever could.

Boorish bully behavior is normalized and excused by the weak, and tolerated by the craven if a team is winning. Once the results are crappy the crappy coaches/crappy human beings are gone too.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's another peach - coach for Villareal in Virginia. Just a 10 minutes clip of many that show him screaming at his own players and an 8 minutes fighting with the referee that stopped play - all started over the ref stopping play at mid-field to help HIS injured player. Called the ref "a real class act and disrespectful" among a series of other things. The sad part is when one of his players says, "I just want to play." No idea how this guy stays with a club.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOBSNEZR0Q

You are grossly exaggerating this. He didn't spend eight minutes arguing with the AR. It was a couple mins. Was he wrong? Probably but nothing egregious. And the yelling? Come on. Almost everything he is saying is instructive. It's not belittling at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:a) The Spirit definitely went local and did a small search to hire Richie. Ok.

b) He inherited a team that JG had basically lost control of...aided by an owner clinging on to the old world (playing the anthem prior to the Reign taking the field just so Rapinoe would not be able to protest. This infuriated Labbe, Dunn, Krieger and others who eventually demanded to leave or were nudged along by the same owner (BL). Enter SB as an additional owner - a GREAT person who is trying to help improve a team...RB did just that - he improved the team, added accountability and got more out of the players than JG could have ever. This team was a mess. He recognized that it was better to move Pugh a year early than a year late - and got draft picks for it that put us in a situation to be competitive.

c) The players loved playing for him. Sullivan, Huster, senior team members would have stepped forward to nip this garbage in the bud if there was really fire near the smoke.

d) Most importantly - the largest mistake the WS made was drafting KM from UCLA - the source in the article. She was a divisive influence at UCLA. She and Sanchez were not “that” close. When she came to the WS after the draft and into the Challenge Cup she divided the locker room. The Challenge Cup occurred at the peak of pandemic craziness and after the awful murder of George Floyd. Rightfully so, the team kneeled and supported BLM, etc. However, an out of shape rookie, with no playing time under her belt has zero right to come in the locker room and take over conversations about what the team should and should not be doing socially. Yelling at veteran players that want to help her is beyond the realm of poor locker room behavior. The WS did not do their homework and could have picked any number of players in that spot of the draft. When she did not EARN minutes, she was very vocal about playing time….and she never played into any level of respect of the veterans. An outspoken, locker room cancer who demanded to be released or traded for lack of playing time – got her wish and was waived. She was vocal about everything and did not think it was “fair” she wouldn’t be played. She claimed she was “promised” she would play but all she was promised is that she would compete for a spot and they believed she had the talent. Once she was waived – and this will tell you something – the only team that would take her is a 3rd tier German club that ultimately moved her on for the same reasons. She was scared to speak up? Hardly. She spoke up and acted like an a$$ in the locker room and a know-it-all / uncoachable player on the field. It is NOT brave to reach out to the Washington Post when you’re out of the game 18 months after you were drafted – and grinding your ax. She has nothing to lose. She can blame RB all she wants for not liking soccer, but accountability starts with yourself. She never acclimated to the pro environment. The WS has leaders on the team that LOVE RB and hate that he is leaving. Is he everyone’s cup of tea? Surely not – that’s the way it is with coaches. But isn’t it funny that the players with the least impact, the most entitled….always have the most to say. Poor baby – the coach was mean? Did he use the N word? No. No player would have tolerated that.


Ask anyone who knows him – RB is not the demon he’s being made out to be, but it sure does get clicks in an article.

The WS have been ready for the next level of coaching for some time since the players have evolved to the next level. Fair.

Appreciate the perspective. What a lot of people don't understand is that there is never 100% happiness in professional locker rooms even on the best teams. So when those players that don't fit in or don't get playing time are unhappy, there's often an axe to grind. It's hard to infer how players feel about RB from sideline of games or social media, but nothing seemed amiss among most of the group.

Do you know the rookie mentioned in the story that was unnamed? Local?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He used racial slurs. It’s like you are defending him and don’t think he should have been fired.

like what? Karen?

You want to know what the racial slur was? Is one racial slur better than another?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's another peach - coach for Villareal in Virginia. Just a 10 minutes clip of many that show him screaming at his own players and an 8 minutes fighting with the referee that stopped play - all started over the ref stopping play at mid-field to help HIS injured player. Called the ref "a real class act and disrespectful" among a series of other things. The sad part is when one of his players says, "I just want to play." No idea how this guy stays with a club.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOBSNEZR0Q

You are grossly exaggerating this. He didn't spend eight minutes arguing with the AR. It was a couple mins. Was he wrong? Probably but nothing egregious. And the yelling? Come on. Almost everything he is saying is instructive. It's not belittling at all.

Not the OP, but I listened....and the arguing goes on for at least 7-8 minutes. The audio is faint in some parts, but he just won't stop arguing and makes it personal at some point. It's a shame when the ref or coach make the game about themselves. In this case, I think both have done just that and cheated the kids in the process.