08 Girls

[Anonymous]

What is Mclean? Ohhh yeah! That club that used to be relevant!

[Anonymous]

Oh look, it's Mister Roster Counter again. Like clockwork.

McLean has 17 players on the U13 roster. Loudon has 19, VDA has 17. BRYC has 29 (!).

Go away, please.

[Anonymous]

McLean roster size
U15 - 22 players
U16 - 23 players
U17 - 22 players
U18 - 31 players

Is that normal? I think maybe too big? Clyde is just getting started with recruiting for his 2008 and 2007 teams. They will both be over 20 next year. Mark my words

[Anonymous]

What’s Mo going to do if it gets wind of this blog post thread, be awful to the girls or be weird with the parents LOL. It’s already happening... I expect some of the talent on the team to jump ship as he’s creating some awful form of toxic soup concoction that many families won’t be able to stomach long term. The abusive coaching style isn’t helpful and plenty of rumblings that folks are already looking to depart.

[Anonymous]

How would the Washington Spirit respond if Richie Burke started treating them like that

[Anonymous]

McLean rosters in low 20s makes sense. Lots of games played a year, injuries always happen unfortunately, competition for playing time raises the quality of everyone’s play, and those are good numbers for training. The oldest team at 30 is an anomaly. And remember their rosters are that size because players want to be there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:McLean rosters in low 20s makes sense. Lots of games played a year, injuries always happen unfortunately, competition for playing time raises the quality of everyone’s play, and those are good numbers for training. The oldest team at 30 is an anomaly. And remember their rosters are that size because players want to be there.

22 players on a U15 roster is too big. At that age there is maybe one or 2 injuries. With 11 allowed on the field at 18 rostered for games there is no need for more that 18 on a team at that age. Arlington has 16 girls at that age as well as U16. If they are running low on players they bring up a girl or 2 from their second team which makes everyone happy. All girls know they are on the team and will get to attend games every week. It's not necessary to have more than 18-20 girls on a team until you reach the U18 age group. Even then having 32 is insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s Mo going to do if it gets wind of this blog post thread, be awful to the girls or be weird with the parents LOL. It’s already happening... I expect some of the talent on the team to jump ship as he’s creating some awful form of toxic soup concoction that many families won’t be able to stomach long term. The abusive coaching style isn’t helpful and plenty of rumblings that folks are already looking to depart.



I thought he was youth coach of the year? Given the 2008 team to keep them from running to McLean? Now he's terrible and chasing them away?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:McLean rosters in low 20s makes sense. Lots of games played a year, injuries always happen unfortunately, competition for playing time raises the quality of everyone’s play, and those are good numbers for training. The oldest team at 30 is an anomaly. And remember their rosters are that size because players want to be there.

22 players on a U15 roster is too big. At that age there is maybe one or 2 injuries. With 11 allowed on the field at 18 rostered for games there is no need for more that 18 on a team at that age. Arlington has 16 girls at that age as well as U16. If they are running low on players they bring up a girl or 2 from their second team which makes everyone happy. All girls know they are on the team and will get to attend games every week. It's not necessary to have more than 18-20 girls on a team until you reach the U18 age group. Even then having 32 is insane.

^ Totally agree. With so many more elite teams in the area, maybe it's time to reevaluate how teams are put together. Rosters over 18 only helps your bottom line. Agreed increased competition does improve the quality of play to some extent, but let's not forget good quality coaching is most important to the overall development.

[Anonymous]

Did anyone notice how the Arlington parent equated his /her girl getting yelled at by Mo to professional players getting yelled at by Richie Burke? What does THAT tell you abut how high maintenance that team is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone notice how the Arlington parent equated his /her girl getting yelled at by Mo to professional players getting yelled at by Richie Burke? What does THAT tell you abut how high maintenance that team is?

They are used to winning, now they actually have to learn how to work to win. But nobody should have to put up with the coach's yelling at the girls. There's a fine line between motivating and scaring the kids. Now would be the time to start discussions about the coach with the club for next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone notice how the Arlington parent equated his /her girl getting yelled at by Mo to professional players getting yelled at by Richie Burke? What does THAT tell you abut how high maintenance that team is?

The most successful athletes of all time were yelled at as kids. You can pretty much name any of them. Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Tiger Woods to name a few. I've seen some pretty crazy AAU girls coaches in my day as well yet alone High School Girls basketball. Serena and Venus Williams have also talked about training as kids and how hard it was.

We are now growing up in a generation where discipline is not respected. Everything must be positive reinforcement. In my opinion, as nice as that sounds, many kids are not going to understand how to deal with failure and are going to be the most entitled human beings in the history of earth. Except for white people that is, we have to learn how to understand our white privilege and how fortunate we are to able to afford to play Club soccer.

In other words, white kids who don't want to be disciplined by coaches and accept they're white privilege will not be able to handle their failures nor are they going to want to compete against others. Please make room for minorities that are less fortunate than your kids so they can get the scholarships, not your weak white girl who doesn't understand what it's like to work hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone notice how the Arlington parent equated his /her girl getting yelled at by Mo to professional players getting yelled at by Richie Burke? What does THAT tell you abut how high maintenance that team is?

The most successful athletes of all time were yelled at as kids. You can pretty much name any of them. Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Tiger Woods to name a few. I've seen some pretty crazy AAU girls coaches in my day as well yet alone High School Girls basketball. Serena and Venus Williams have also talked about training as kids and how hard it was.

We are now growing up in a generation where discipline is not respected. Everything must be positive reinforcement. In my opinion, as nice as that sounds, many kids are not going to understand how to deal with failure and are going to be the most entitled human beings in the history of earth. Except for white people that is, we have to learn how to understand our white privilege and how fortunate we are to able to afford to play Club soccer.

In other words, white kids who don't want to be disciplined by coaches and accept they're white privilege will not be able to handle their failures nor are they going to want to compete against others. Please make room for minorities that are less fortunate than your kids so they can get the scholarships, not your weak white girl who doesn't understand what it's like to work hard.

And how many of those stars you mentioned turned out well adjusted? How many of MJ's HS teammates went on to stardom and HOF careers? Yelling doesn't make champions, champions endure in spite of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone notice how the Arlington parent equated his /her girl getting yelled at by Mo to professional players getting yelled at by Richie Burke? What does THAT tell you abut how high maintenance that team is?

The most successful athletes of all time were yelled at as kids. You can pretty much name any of them. Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Tiger Woods to name a few. I've seen some pretty crazy AAU girls coaches in my day as well yet alone High School Girls basketball. Serena and Venus Williams have also talked about training as kids and how hard it was.

We are now growing up in a generation where discipline is not respected. Everything must be positive reinforcement. In my opinion, as nice as that sounds, many kids are not going to understand how to deal with failure and are going to be the most entitled human beings in the history of earth. Except for white people that is, we have to learn how to understand our white privilege and how fortunate we are to able to afford to play Club soccer.

In other words, white kids who don't want to be disciplined by coaches and accept they're white privilege will not be able to handle their failures nor are they going to want to compete against others. Please make room for minorities that are less fortunate than your kids so they can get the scholarships, not your weak white girl who doesn't understand what it's like to work hard.

And how many of those stars you mentioned turned out well adjusted? How many of MJ's HS teammates went on to stardom and HOF careers? Yelling doesn't make champions, champions endure in spite of it.

Quite obviously the opposite does not and will not either, at U13 or otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone notice how the Arlington parent equated his /her girl getting yelled at by Mo to professional players getting yelled at by Richie Burke? What does THAT tell you abut how high maintenance that team is?

The most successful athletes of all time were yelled at as kids. You can pretty much name any of them. Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Tiger Woods to name a few. I've seen some pretty crazy AAU girls coaches in my day as well yet alone High School Girls basketball. Serena and Venus Williams have also talked about training as kids and how hard it was.

We are now growing up in a generation where discipline is not respected. Everything must be positive reinforcement. In my opinion, as nice as that sounds, many kids are not going to understand how to deal with failure and are going to be the most entitled human beings in the history of earth. Except for white people that is, we have to learn how to understand our white privilege and how fortunate we are to able to afford to play Club soccer.

In other words, white kids who don't want to be disciplined by coaches and accept they're white privilege will not be able to handle their failures nor are they going to want to compete against others. Please make room for minorities that are less fortunate than your kids so they can get the scholarships, not your weak white girl who doesn't understand what it's like to work hard.

Omg. Yes. My girls' travel coach was like Johnny from Cobra Kai, actually more like Krease. When I asked my mom as an adult why nobody said anything, she said 'because you never lost'.