Bethesda Soccer On Way Down

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to change subject a bit and vent a different frustration.

I (and a good many other parents on our team) am getting quite upset that the 1st team gets its own field while our team has to share one with the 3rd team. 1st team also has more practices and had more pre-season scrimmages. The thing is, at least 1/3 of our team were just as good, but even this early in the season we can already see the skill gap is widening. Our coach is great, but there is only so much we can do on half an indoor turf field. Its utter BS that we pay the same amount, but get less space.

You are practicing on indoor turf fields in September?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to change subject a bit and vent a different frustration.

I (and a good many other parents on our team) am getting quite upset that the 1st team gets its own field while our team has to share one with the 3rd team. 1st team also has more practices and had more pre-season scrimmages. The thing is, at least 1/3 of our team were just as good, but even this early in the season we can already see the skill gap is widening. Our coach is great, but there is only so much we can do on half an indoor turf field. Its utter BS that we pay the same amount, but get less space.

We are on a top team and never had an entire field. At best 1/2 and at worst, 1/4.

75% of what makes a kid an A teamer is what they do outside of the team environment.

Well in this case our team is the only one sharing, 1st team is not. Older teams have their own fields.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to change subject a bit and vent a different frustration.

I (and a good many other parents on our team) am getting quite upset that the 1st team gets its own field while our team has to share one with the 3rd team. 1st team also has more practices and had more pre-season scrimmages. The thing is, at least 1/3 of our team were just as good, but even this early in the season we can already see the skill gap is widening. Our coach is great, but there is only so much we can do on half an indoor turf field. Its utter BS that we pay the same amount, but get less space.

You are practicing on indoor turf fields in September?

Separate issue, yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to change subject a bit and vent a different frustration.

I (and a good many other parents on our team) am getting quite upset that the 1st team gets its own field while our team has to share one with the 3rd team. 1st team also has more practices and had more pre-season scrimmages. The thing is, at least 1/3 of our team were just as good, but even this early in the season we can already see the skill gap is widening. Our coach is great, but there is only so much we can do on half an indoor turf field. Its utter BS that we pay the same amount, but get less space.

We are on a top team and never had an entire field. At best 1/2 and at worst, 1/4.

75% of what makes a kid an A teamer is what they do outside of the team environment.

Agreed, but having less field space and less team practices is still a detriment - at the very least in team cohesion. Not to mention same price less service. I’m sure my kid does at least as much if not more practices outside the team environment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to change subject a bit and vent a different frustration.

I (and a good many other parents on our team) am getting quite upset that the 1st team gets its own field while our team has to share one with the 3rd team. 1st team also has more practices and had more pre-season scrimmages. The thing is, at least 1/3 of our team were just as good, but even this early in the season we can already see the skill gap is widening. Our coach is great, but there is only so much we can do on half an indoor turf field. Its utter BS that we pay the same amount, but get less space.

And you pay the same as those in the first team?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to change subject a bit and vent a different frustration.

I (and a good many other parents on our team) am getting quite upset that the 1st team gets its own field while our team has to share one with the 3rd team. 1st team also has more practices and had more pre-season scrimmages. The thing is, at least 1/3 of our team were just as good, but even this early in the season we can already see the skill gap is widening. Our coach is great, but there is only so much we can do on half an indoor turf field. Its utter BS that we pay the same amount, but get less space.

And you pay the same as those in the first team?

Yes, prices are the same for all kids in the same age group, no matter what team.

[Anonymous]

Don’t know age of your kid but this is normal. For ours, we don’t have near as many practices and almost never get indoor space in snow. 1st team has its benefits. Unfair? Sure. Life? Yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to change subject a bit and vent a different frustration.

I (and a good many other parents on our team) am getting quite upset that the 1st team gets its own field while our team has to share one with the 3rd team. 1st team also has more practices and had more pre-season scrimmages. The thing is, at least 1/3 of our team were just as good, but even this early in the season we can already see the skill gap is widening. Our coach is great, but there is only so much we can do on half an indoor turf field. Its utter BS that we pay the same amount, but get less space.

You are practicing on indoor turf fields in September?

Typical Bethesda for you or any other club in the area . No surprise here. You must be new to travel soccer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t know age of your kid but this is normal. For ours, we don’t have near as many practices and almost never get indoor space in snow. 1st team has its benefits. Unfair? Sure. Life? Yes.

I get a certain level of preferential treatment, but doing it right in the face of the other teams just pisses people off. Having an extra practice is not something the parents of other teams can observe directly, but using a full field right next to the other team that only gets half is blatant.

[Anonymous]

Training in tight spaces makes for creative players who are competent under pressure. You're complaing about the wrong things my dude. Worry about how many touches your kid has a practice not how much space they have to practice in.
If your kid does not have to bring their ball to every practice before the age of 13 I have no idea what you're wasting your money on. Team, 11v11 scrimmaging and formations. tactics, strength and conditioning can all wait and should until ball mastery is had

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Training in tight spaces makes for creative players who are competent under pressure. You're complaing about the wrong things my dude. Worry about how many touches your kid has a practice not how much space they have to practice in.
If your kid does not have to bring their ball to every practice before the age of 13 I have no idea what you're wasting your money on. Team, 11v11 scrimmaging and formations. tactics, strength and conditioning can all wait and should until ball mastery is had

said by a first team player parent who gets full fields and extra practices

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Training in tight spaces makes for creative players who are competent under pressure. You're complaing about the wrong things my dude. Worry about how many touches your kid has a practice not how much space they have to practice in.
If your kid does not have to bring their ball to every practice before the age of 13 I have no idea what you're wasting your money on. Team, 11v11 scrimmaging and formations. tactics, strength and conditioning can all wait and should until ball mastery is had

said by a first team player parent who gets full fields and extra practices

You are really not doing your child any favors with this attitude. You are hurting them because I can only imagine you are putting this anxiety into them.

We have enough division in our world to not bring it between teams in the same club and reduce us to 1st team parents. We actively engage and root for second team players in our age group. The kids root for each other even though we know some of the parents want our spots.

Sincerely, this is the ideal situation to talk to a therapist. It really can’t be this serious and you need to uncover something. We have real stuff going on right now and you are worried that you did not iron out the details of what you wanted for your kid in advance. Next year, demand full fields for your kid in the next tryouts and see which club takes your son.

[Anonymous]

Former BSC 1st team player who left the club because the realities of who gets what goes far beyond field placements. Take my advice though cause my kid is still a 1st team player on a far better team and intially developed at a smaller club that only had 1/8 of a field typically to train on so again its not about the field space, its about the quantity of touches and measured instruction from caring and knowledegable adults. Not verbal abuse and imtimidation the BSC way

[Anonymous]

What club PP? Not many ECNL first teams in this area to move to…

[Anonymous]

BSC doesn’t have outdoor fields that they own. Rely on HS schools all around Mont Co so always a pain during fall and spring HS sport season