Great Falls Reston Soccer

[Anonymous]

It really is the coaches that make all the difference. Maybe that’s why this thread is all over the place. Lots of good coaches left this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It really is the coaches that make all the difference. Maybe that’s why this thread is all over the place. Lots of good coaches left this year.

Who were the good coaches who left and where did they go?

[Anonymous]

ST, SA, BL to Herndon and Valor

[Anonymous]

RP also landed at Herndon, apparently. Not sure where KB went to.

[Anonymous]

Lee Mt. Vernon as the new TD

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Safe sport complaints weren't from this last weekend. They were from several weeks ago. Probably just a LS parent trying to stir the pot. Gus is a class act and I don't know why any complaints would be filed against him. He is respected by many!

Ummm, sure. The person you are touting as a "class act" is notorious for picking favorites and playing the people who pay him a lot of $$$$ to privately train them This is a well known fact.
Respected by many? Why don't you ask some of the former GFR families who left last season about that claim. Or anyone who was coached by him at Bethesda or FCV.

All coaches have their favorites. That's just human nature. However, in this case, I would agree with you that there is definitely a correlation between being a "favorite" and paying for extra training on the side. What makes that particularly obvious is that some of those players aren't nearly as good as their playing time would suggest. But no club is going to question the coach about something like this. Your choice is to deal with it or move on (as some players chose to do).

As a former parent of the coach mentioned the writing was on the wall for us since my kid was good, but there were a few better players on the team. He made promises of getting her to top teams and leagues and schools when we paid for private training sessions. When she got in high school and the course load was too much to get to those private trainings the playing time dropped significantly and we left after the season was done. She was never treated the same after we had to stop paying him on the side.

Did your DD go to other travel team or just decide to stop entirely? I am not seeing how to manage travel and HS AP load.

[Anonymous]

No player is treated fairly unless they are doing privates at $100+ per hour. It’s disgusting. I know many who have left for this reason.

[Anonymous]

We’re at GFR and are not doing privates at $100/hr and are being treated fairly so it does happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’re at GFR and are not doing privates at $100/hr and are being treated fairly so it does happen.

No, it doesn’t.

[Anonymous]

I can’t speak to anyone’s experience but ours, but, yes, it does.

[Anonymous]

What a crock. Favoritism runs deep here. I see it all the time, players getting playing time because they pay the $100 training.

[Anonymous]

GD is notorious for this. You can be the worst player on the team and still play lots of time in every game as long as you're training with him privately.

[Anonymous]

That has not been our experience on the boys side, but would drive me crazy if it were!

[Anonymous]

We’re new to GFR this year at a younger age group and have been happy with the coach. He runs good drills and seems thoughtful about practices and development of the team.

[Anonymous]

I think it's coach dependent, but also happy at GFR. Is playing time equal? No, but I don't see kids getting playing time that don't deserve it. Some coaches are more about the wins (looks good for them), others more about the kids, so you luck out when you get one that actually cares about development.