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Anonymous wrote:BSC seems to be having a down year at 2014G. What is going on there?

A down year? You are probably the same person that has trolled the BSC thread with this stupidity. Get a life and look at the difficulty of their league competition as they “rank” nationally. The team’s prior coach was horrendous and the new coach practically had to start from scratch.

Prior coach horrendous? Practically started from scratch? I see KL's mom is on here. I don't recall last years team losing to some of the "difficult" league teams Pipeline or Maryland United last year and smashed Ukrainian Nationals 5-0. Just because they played differently last year, doesn't mean the coach was horrendous. If you compared their results and the outrageous behavior from the sidelines this year, many would say this years coach is "horrendous".

How does KL’s playing style differ from last year’s coach? I understand difference in sideline behavior, but what’s different on the pitch?

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Anonymous wrote:BSC seems to be having a down year at 2014G. What is going on there?

A down year? You are probably the same person that has trolled the BSC thread with this stupidity. Get a life and look at the difficulty of their league competition as they “rank” nationally. The team’s prior coach was horrendous and the new coach practically had to start from scratch.

Prior coach horrendous? Practically started from scratch? I see KL's mom is on here. I don't recall last years team losing to some of the "difficult" league teams Pipeline or Maryland United last year and smashed Ukrainian Nationals 5-0. Just because they played differently last year, doesn't mean the coach was horrendous. If you compared their results and the outrageous behavior from the sidelines this year, many would say this years coach is "horrendous".

How does KL’s playing style differ from last year’s coach? I understand difference in sideline behavior, but what’s different on the pitch?

From my perspective, KL tells them what to do constantly and his way is the only way. It becomes predictable and good team figure them out quickly (even the not so good ones). When mistakes are made a verbal lashing is coming, thus creating fear and little to no decision making on their own. The other coach allowed them to play and “to figure it out”. This empowered them to make decisions. They may have not made the right decision but it was “their” decision to make. A teachable moment where the player learns through her decisions not from being constantly told what to do. At the end of the day, it’s “their” (players) game. The other coach was not perfect, no doubt but you can’t say that he didn’t allow them to play. A there was a more team like and happier atmosphere and they all cared about one another.

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Anonymous wrote:BSC seems to be having a down year at 2014G. What is going on there?

A down year? You are probably the same person that has trolled the BSC thread with this stupidity. Get a life and look at the difficulty of their league competition as they “rank” nationally. The team’s prior coach was horrendous and the new coach practically had to start from scratch.

Prior coach horrendous? Practically started from scratch? I see KL's mom is on here. I don't recall last years team losing to some of the "difficult" league teams Pipeline or Maryland United last year and smashed Ukrainian Nationals 5-0. Just because they played differently last year, doesn't mean the coach was horrendous. If you compared their results and the outrageous behavior from the sidelines this year, many would say this years coach is "horrendous".

How does KL’s playing style differ from last year’s coach? I understand difference in sideline behavior, but what’s different on the pitch?

From my perspective, KL tells them what to do constantly and his way is the only way. It becomes predictable and good team figure them out quickly (even the not so good ones). When mistakes are made a verbal lashing is coming, thus creating fear and little to no decision making on their own. The other coach allowed them to play and “to figure it out”. This empowered them to make decisions. They may have not made the right decision but it was “their” decision to make. A teachable moment where the player learns through her decisions not from being constantly told what to do. At the end of the day, it’s “their” (players) game. The other coach was not perfect, no doubt but you can’t say that he didn’t allow them to play. A there was a more team like and happier atmosphere and they all cared about one another.

This is right on KL. Good coach but it’s his way or the highway.

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Anonymous wrote:Which is better for DD's development, to play at age (u13) on a higher quality team or up (u14) on a lesser quality team? Both teams play in same league so overall competition is similar (other than age effects), quality of coaching is also similar, and she would start on both teams. Seems to come down to whether it's better to play with and against bigger / faster / stronger players or with teammates who have significantly better skills.

Playing up generally doesn't mean playing against better quality (mostly bigger not faster) if those are your options. My daughter's team wasted an entire spring season "playing up" for the bigger field against just horrible teams to get used to the bigger pitch. I get how some smaller clubs are forced to combine age groups, but you are almost always better playing against the top age competition assuming it's actually available near you.

Most of the teams playing up at u13 are playing mostly 2 or 3rd teams. Take the GA teams, they can’t play GA or Aspire teams so they are in EDP no mans land. Most of their tourneys are the same. Also, there is a reason why most of the world wants to hold off on 11v11 until u14 let alone 10/ 11 year olds. Most parents love the idea of playing up for the perception of an early advantage. However, it’s the long game. IYKYK

Short version is if you're playing up, the league you're in matters a lot. It's not a good experience if you're dominating every game playing up, but it can be a lot better than playing same-age because the quality of teams in the pre-MLS/ECNL/GA leagues varies so much at u12.

Longer version is my DC's team played up a year for the last few seasons and there's been some good and some bad. Playing at our age group was a mixed bag because there were 2-3 close games and the rest were blowouts. Playing up the first two years was almost worse because almost all the games were blowout. As other said, we were playing second or third teams who were bigger but not better. Not sure our kids got better from playing up. Then last year when they were a u12 team, they played up in u13 league and that was shockingly the best experience. The top u13 teams were off to MLS/ECNL/GA/etc, but the teams we played were either other top u12 teams or top teams whose clubs don't have an option for MLS/etc. The teams they played against were generally similarly skilled as our team but bigger and faster which forced our kids to play smarter. Then we'd go back to playing our normal u12 league and it a lot less fun (same as before where only 2-3 games are competitive and rest aren't). We played in some tournaments against other u12 teams that hadn't played up and you could see the difference. Our team had to fight every single u13 game whereas the other teams were only used to competing in a handful of games each season. Looking at this year, I'm not going to say it was life changing and we're suddenly far ahead of the other teams, but playing up was the highlight of last year from a team development perspective.

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Anonymous wrote:BSC seems to be having a down year at 2014G. What is going on there?

A down year? You are probably the same person that has trolled the BSC thread with this stupidity. Get a life and look at the difficulty of their league competition as they “rank” nationally. The team’s prior coach was horrendous and the new coach practically had to start from scratch.

Prior coach horrendous? Practically started from scratch? I see KL's mom is on here. I don't recall last years team losing to some of the "difficult" league teams Pipeline or Maryland United last year and smashed Ukrainian Nationals 5-0. Just because they played differently last year, doesn't mean the coach was horrendous. If you compared their results and the outrageous behavior from the sidelines this year, many would say this years coach is "horrendous".

How does KL’s playing style differ from last year’s coach? I understand difference in sideline behavior, but what’s different on the pitch?

From my perspective, KL tells them what to do constantly and his way is the only way. It becomes predictable and good team figure them out quickly (even the not so good ones). When mistakes are made a verbal lashing is coming, thus creating fear and little to no decision making on their own. The other coach allowed them to play and “to figure it out”. This empowered them to make decisions. They may have not made the right decision but it was “their” decision to make. A teachable moment where the player learns through her decisions not from being constantly told what to do. At the end of the day, it’s “their” (players) game. The other coach was not perfect, no doubt but you can’t say that he didn’t allow them to play. A there was a more team like and happier atmosphere and they all cared about one another.

This is right on KL. Good coach but it’s his way or the highway.

And how many girls fell out of love for the game and quit because of this? a shame.

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Anonymous wrote:BSC seems to be having a down year at 2014G. What is going on there?

A down year? You are probably the same person that has trolled the BSC thread with this stupidity. Get a life and look at the difficulty of their league competition as they “rank” nationally. The team’s prior coach was horrendous and the new coach practically had to start from scratch.

Prior coach horrendous? Practically started from scratch? I see KL's mom is on here. I don't recall last years team losing to some of the "difficult" league teams Pipeline or Maryland United last year and smashed Ukrainian Nationals 5-0. Just because they played differently last year, doesn't mean the coach was horrendous. If you compared their results and the outrageous behavior from the sidelines this year, many would say this years coach is "horrendous".

How does KL’s playing style differ from last year’s coach? I understand difference in sideline behavior, but what’s different on the pitch?

From my perspective, KL tells them what to do constantly and his way is the only way. It becomes predictable and good team figure them out quickly (even the not so good ones). When mistakes are made a verbal lashing is coming, thus creating fear and little to no decision making on their own. The other coach allowed them to play and “to figure it out”. This empowered them to make decisions. They may have not made the right decision but it was “their” decision to make. A teachable moment where the player learns through her decisions not from being constantly told what to do. At the end of the day, it’s “their” (players) game. The other coach was not perfect, no doubt but you can’t say that he didn’t allow them to play. A there was a more team like and happier atmosphere and they all cared about one another.

This is right on KL. Good coach but it’s his way or the highway.

I wish my DD’s coach would give his players some direction and let then know when they made the right or wrong decision more often. It’s a team sport where players have specific responsibilities and they’re not going to learn what they should and should not do by osmosis.

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Anonymous wrote:BSC seems to be having a down year at 2014G. What is going on there?

A down year? You are probably the same person that has trolled the BSC thread with this stupidity. Get a life and look at the difficulty of their league competition as they “rank” nationally. The team’s prior coach was horrendous and the new coach practically had to start from scratch.

Prior coach horrendous? Practically started from scratch? I see KL's mom is on here. I don't recall last years team losing to some of the "difficult" league teams Pipeline or Maryland United last year and smashed Ukrainian Nationals 5-0. Just because they played differently last year, doesn't mean the coach was horrendous. If you compared their results and the outrageous behavior from the sidelines this year, many would say this years coach is "horrendous".

How does KL’s playing style differ from last year’s coach? I understand difference in sideline behavior, but what’s different on the pitch?

From my perspective, KL tells them what to do constantly and his way is the only way. It becomes predictable and good team figure them out quickly (even the not so good ones). When mistakes are made a verbal lashing is coming, thus creating fear and little to no decision making on their own. The other coach allowed them to play and “to figure it out”. This empowered them to make decisions. They may have not made the right decision but it was “their” decision to make. A teachable moment where the player learns through her decisions not from being constantly told what to do. At the end of the day, it’s “their” (players) game. The other coach was not perfect, no doubt but you can’t say that he didn’t allow them to play. A there was a more team like and happier atmosphere and they all cared about one another.

This is right on KL. Good coach but it’s his way or the highway.

I wish my DD’s coach would give his players some direction and let then know when they made the right or wrong decision more often. It’s a team sport where players have specific responsibilities and they’re not going to learn what they should and should not do by osmosis.

You don't think they know? They know their responsibilities and they know when they make a mistake. You don't think her coach speaks to her when she comes off or asks her questions? Highlighting it and putting a spotlight on them does not help and further destroys their self image and makes them less likely to make another decision on her own. You have a lot to learn about girls soccer and how girls view the game. But as long as the girls does what she is told thats ok by you.

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Anonymous wrote:BSC seems to be having a down year at 2014G. What is going on there?

A down year? You are probably the same person that has trolled the BSC thread with this stupidity. Get a life and look at the difficulty of their league competition as they “rank” nationally. The team’s prior coach was horrendous and the new coach practically had to start from scratch.

Easy killer. Just asking. Coaching situation makes sense, but not sure league competition explains the gap in results between this and prior BSC U12 E1 teams, or between this and other current E1 teams. Rankings app has them outside top 200, which seems like an outlier for a first team at Bethesda. Will they pick up any players from the 2013s?

Funny, the BSC 2014G E1s last year were never outside the top 200 ever. Hmmm 🤔. Yeah it must be the coach but looks like it’s the current coach, instead. Create an environment of fear and mind games, and you get the results you are seeing now. Last year’s team is broken up by KL and then you blame the previous coach? Pipeline 1-4 and Maryland United 0-2 (I think last year’s team beat them). Struggling in most matches. Pathetic. Play up in a second bracket and still can’t be successful. Stop Blaming a previous coach for this year’s team failures and take responsibility and accountability. This team needs a mentor and leader! Empower and encourage them, not humiliate and destroy them. The emperor (KL, everyone is looking at you) has no clothes and it shows. He needs to Focus on that 2014G second team of his before he loses them too. Rumor has it some are about to bail. Ooppps one just did this week, the smartest thing CB could ever do. But I guess we will blame last year’s coach for that too. Ridiculous. Do better and stop blaming others.

I honestly don't know why ANY of the 2014 E2 players would stay. KL and most Bethesda ECNL coaches are known for never promoting from within the club. A bunch of those girls are more than capable of being E1, and have been in the past, but KL will never bring them up. If he puts you on E2, he sees you as E2 long-term, and he only cares about the top teams. Period. I would be shocked if there was not an exodus.

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Anonymous wrote:BSC seems to be having a down year at 2014G. What is going on there?

A down year? You are probably the same person that has trolled the BSC thread with this stupidity. Get a life and look at the difficulty of their league competition as they “rank” nationally. The team’s prior coach was horrendous and the new coach practically had to start from scratch.

Easy killer. Just asking. Coaching situation makes sense, but not sure league competition explains the gap in results between this and prior BSC U12 E1 teams, or between this and other current E1 teams. Rankings app has them outside top 200, which seems like an outlier for a first team at Bethesda. Will they pick up any players from the 2013s?

Funny, the BSC 2014G E1s last year were never outside the top 200 ever. Hmmm 🤔. Yeah it must be the coach but looks like it’s the current coach, instead. Create an environment of fear and mind games, and you get the results you are seeing now. Last year’s team is broken up by KL and then you blame the previous coach? Pipeline 1-4 and Maryland United 0-2 (I think last year’s team beat them). Struggling in most matches. Pathetic. Play up in a second bracket and still can’t be successful. Stop Blaming a previous coach for this year’s team failures and take responsibility and accountability. This team needs a mentor and leader! Empower and encourage them, not humiliate and destroy them. The emperor (KL, everyone is looking at you) has no clothes and it shows. He needs to Focus on that 2014G second team of his before he loses them too. Rumor has it some are about to bail. Ooppps one just did this week, the smartest thing CB could ever do. But I guess we will blame last year’s coach for that too. Ridiculous. Do better and stop blaming others.

I honestly don't know why ANY of the 2014 E2 players would stay. KL and most Bethesda ECNL coaches are known for never promoting from within the club. A bunch of those girls are more than capable of being E1, and have been in the past, but KL will never bring them up. If he puts you on E2, he sees you as E2 long-term, and he only cares about the top teams. Period. I would be shocked if there was not an exodus.

I could not agree with you more! Fake promises, "bubble" players, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:BSC seems to be having a down year at 2014G. What is going on there?

A down year? You are probably the same person that has trolled the BSC thread with this stupidity. Get a life and look at the difficulty of their league competition as they “rank” nationally. The team’s prior coach was horrendous and the new coach practically had to start from scratch.

Easy killer. Just asking. Coaching situation makes sense, but not sure league competition explains the gap in results between this and prior BSC U12 E1 teams, or between this and other current E1 teams. Rankings app has them outside top 200, which seems like an outlier for a first team at Bethesda. Will they pick up any players from the 2013s?

Funny, the BSC 2014G E1s last year were never outside the top 200 ever. Hmmm 🤔. Yeah it must be the coach but looks like it’s the current coach, instead. Create an environment of fear and mind games, and you get the results you are seeing now. Last year’s team is broken up by KL and then you blame the previous coach? Pipeline 1-4 and Maryland United 0-2 (I think last year’s team beat them). Struggling in most matches. Pathetic. Play up in a second bracket and still can’t be successful. Stop Blaming a previous coach for this year’s team failures and take responsibility and accountability. This team needs a mentor and leader! Empower and encourage them, not humiliate and destroy them. The emperor (KL, everyone is looking at you) has no clothes and it shows. He needs to Focus on that 2014G second team of his before he loses them too. Rumor has it some are about to bail. Ooppps one just did this week, the smartest thing CB could ever do. But I guess we will blame last year’s coach for that too. Ridiculous. Do better and stop blaming others.

I honestly don't know why ANY of the 2014 E2 players would stay. KL and most Bethesda ECNL coaches are known for never promoting from within the club. A bunch of those girls are more than capable of being E1, and have been in the past, but KL will never bring them up. If he puts you on E2, he sees you as E2 long-term, and he only cares about the top teams. Period. I would be shocked if there was not an exodus.

I could not agree with you more! Fake promises, "bubble" players, etc.

But where else can someone who lives in MC and wants to play at a high level U13 or above go other than BSC, unless they have parents willing and able to drive 90 minutes twice a day?

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Anonymous wrote:BSC seems to be having a down year at 2014G. What is going on there?

A down year? You are probably the same person that has trolled the BSC thread with this stupidity. Get a life and look at the difficulty of their league competition as they “rank” nationally. The team’s prior coach was horrendous and the new coach practically had to start from scratch.

Easy killer. Just asking. Coaching situation makes sense, but not sure league competition explains the gap in results between this and prior BSC U12 E1 teams, or between this and other current E1 teams. Rankings app has them outside top 200, which seems like an outlier for a first team at Bethesda. Will they pick up any players from the 2013s?

Funny, the BSC 2014G E1s last year were never outside the top 200 ever. Hmmm 🤔. Yeah it must be the coach but looks like it’s the current coach, instead. Create an environment of fear and mind games, and you get the results you are seeing now. Last year’s team is broken up by KL and then you blame the previous coach? Pipeline 1-4 and Maryland United 0-2 (I think last year’s team beat them). Struggling in most matches. Pathetic. Play up in a second bracket and still can’t be successful. Stop Blaming a previous coach for this year’s team failures and take responsibility and accountability. This team needs a mentor and leader! Empower and encourage them, not humiliate and destroy them. The emperor (KL, everyone is looking at you) has no clothes and it shows. He needs to Focus on that 2014G second team of his before he loses them too. Rumor has it some are about to bail. Ooppps one just did this week, the smartest thing CB could ever do. But I guess we will blame last year’s coach for that too. Ridiculous. Do better and stop blaming others.

I honestly don't know why ANY of the 2014 E2 players would stay. KL and most Bethesda ECNL coaches are known for never promoting from within the club. A bunch of those girls are more than capable of being E1, and have been in the past, but KL will never bring them up. If he puts you on E2, he sees you as E2 long-term, and he only cares about the top teams. Period. I would be shocked if there was not an exodus.

I could not agree with you more! Fake promises, "bubble" players, etc.

But where else can someone who lives in MC and wants to play at a high level U13 or above go other than BSC, unless they have parents willing and able to drive 90 minutes twice a day?

That’s the heart of the problem. You’re going to have to make the drive, and that stinks. But we know plenty of people who do it, often with carpooling. Unless girls are willing (and able, because the commute isn’t easy) to drive elsewhere, BSC has no incentive to change and they know it.

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Anonymous wrote:OP,

I would honestly go to a neutral training or pickup like VA Street Soccer, find a girls who boss your girl and then ask them where they play and train and get that parents opinions. Here are a few details from the Rankings app:

Top 10 VA 2014’s teaming from NOVA:

1. Loudoun Pre-GA Red
2. McLean Pre-GA Green
4. SYC Pre-GA
6. Arlington Pre-ECNL
7. Great Fall Reston Pre- ECNL
8. VA Valor Pre-ECNL
9. VSA Pre-ECNL VDA West

Caveat, the club we most likely will be going to is not in the top 10. We are currently in a top 5 program and the coaching is overrated. Being on a winning team does not help a player develop. The top 2014 girl from SYC took a year off from club to train with False8 and then guests with different clubs. You have a lot of that going on and only a few Arlington teams seem to be transparent about who they brought in to guest for them on IG. It is very hard to gauge wins and losses when you don’t know who played unless you were there.

It is really important when discussing wins and losses to get the teams right. For example, on the boys side, the ECNL clubs love to boast victories against MLS Next. They just leave out the II or Academy Division.

McLean 2014 Green beat SYC 2013 Aspire team 2-0

McLean 2014 Green beat SYC 2014 Pre-GA 3-0

From the rankings app, it looks like they are playing up a year against the “vaunted” 2013 group and holding their own.

Get the Rankings app so you can sift through any “fake news” posted here. Check out local futsal tourney’s this winter like Capitol Futsal Cup and MD State Futsal Cup. Walk up to any of the ballers you see, compliment the parents, ask who they play for and how their experience is. I hope you find a good spot for your daughter to develop.

Insert Billy Madison “Everyone is now dumber” speech

Lol

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Anonymous wrote:BSC seems to be having a down year at 2014G. What is going on there?

A down year? You are probably the same person that has trolled the BSC thread with this stupidity. Get a life and look at the difficulty of their league competition as they “rank” nationally. The team’s prior coach was horrendous and the new coach practically had to start from scratch.

Easy killer. Just asking. Coaching situation makes sense, but not sure league competition explains the gap in results between this and prior BSC U12 E1 teams, or between this and other current E1 teams. Rankings app has them outside top 200, which seems like an outlier for a first team at Bethesda. Will they pick up any players from the 2013s?

Funny, the BSC 2014G E1s last year were never outside the top 200 ever. Hmmm 🤔. Yeah it must be the coach but looks like it’s the current coach, instead. Create an environment of fear and mind games, and you get the results you are seeing now. Last year’s team is broken up by KL and then you blame the previous coach? Pipeline 1-4 and Maryland United 0-2 (I think last year’s team beat them). Struggling in most matches. Pathetic. Play up in a second bracket and still can’t be successful. Stop Blaming a previous coach for this year’s team failures and take responsibility and accountability. This team needs a mentor and leader! Empower and encourage them, not humiliate and destroy them. The emperor (KL, everyone is looking at you) has no clothes and it shows. He needs to Focus on that 2014G second team of his before he loses them too. Rumor has it some are about to bail. Ooppps one just did this week, the smartest thing CB could ever do. But I guess we will blame last year’s coach for that too. Ridiculous. Do better and stop blaming others.

I honestly don't know why ANY of the 2014 E2 players would stay. KL and most Bethesda ECNL coaches are known for never promoting from within the club. A bunch of those girls are more than capable of being E1, and have been in the past, but KL will never bring them up. If he puts you on E2, he sees you as E2 long-term, and he only cares about the top teams. Period. I would be shocked if there was not an exodus.

I could not agree with you more! Fake promises, "bubble" players, etc.

But where else can someone who lives in MC and wants to play at a high level U13 or above go other than BSC, unless they have parents willing and able to drive 90 minutes twice a day?

That’s the heart of the problem. You’re going to have to make the drive, and that stinks. But we know plenty of people who do it, often with carpooling. Unless girls are willing (and able, because the commute isn’t easy) to drive elsewhere, BSC has no incentive to change and they know it.

you said carpooling. They are going to come
For you. First rule of carpooling, dont talk about carpooling.

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Anonymous wrote:BSC seems to be having a down year at 2014G. What is going on there?

A down year? You are probably the same person that has trolled the BSC thread with this stupidity. Get a life and look at the difficulty of their league competition as they “rank” nationally. The team’s prior coach was horrendous and the new coach practically had to start from scratch.

Prior coach horrendous? Practically started from scratch? I see KL's mom is on here. I don't recall last years team losing to some of the "difficult" league teams Pipeline or Maryland United last year and smashed Ukrainian Nationals 5-0. Just because they played differently last year, doesn't mean the coach was horrendous. If you compared their results and the outrageous behavior from the sidelines this year, many would say this years coach is "horrendous".

How does KL’s playing style differ from last year’s coach? I understand difference in sideline behavior, but what’s different on the pitch?

From my perspective, KL tells them what to do constantly and his way is the only way. It becomes predictable and good team figure them out quickly (even the not so good ones). When mistakes are made a verbal lashing is coming, thus creating fear and little to no decision making on their own. The other coach allowed them to play and “to figure it out”. This empowered them to make decisions. They may have not made the right decision but it was “their” decision to make. A teachable moment where the player learns through her decisions not from being constantly told what to do. At the end of the day, it’s “their” (players) game. The other coach was not perfect, no doubt but you can’t say that he didn’t allow them to play. A there was a more team like and happier atmosphere and they all cared about one another.

This is right on KL. Good coach but it’s his way or the highway.

I wish my DD’s coach would give his players some direction and let then know when they made the right or wrong decision more often. It’s a team sport where players have specific responsibilities and they’re not going to learn what they should and should not do by osmosis.

Exactly this, I wish my kid's coaches gave them better feedback/direction. Assuming a 10/11 year old can constantly figure out what they are doing wrong and pivot without coach direction is folly.