What about the 3-4 players from Armour are they baking soda? |
That's a GA tactic, maybe writing is already on the wall for the switch? |
This is exactly the reason people are leaving FVU because the leadership is attacking coaches that even the players still there want coaching. Try selling to families why FVU is worth staying at. Tell me why playing for MV and CW is good for my child. In the past, every team CW and MV has coached actually gets worse, so tell me why it will be different. Tell me why it is going to be better in the future under the same leadership that governs one of the worst boys programs in the country. MV is the ECNL Director and not a single other club would even hire him to coach. You had to lie and say CW was coaching a team at tryouts because you knew that players would not sign up for MW. The reality is players were going to leave regardless, the timing was never going to be good for you. Look in the mirror rather than attacking and you will see why players are leaving. |
The 09s had 30+ players on the roster last season??? That is a blatant lie. |
It's August 1 for the new season. July was playoffs. So they wanted to play in playoffs and then leave. |
Like any rational person. They were part of the reason that team made playoffs and any good club would have sent them whether they were leaving or not. Especially since you pay dues through the end of July. |
How would it have changed anything for FVU if the players told them they were leaving in May? It would have created a divide on the team for playoffs and likely would have got FVU to remove our coaches. |
This thread is hilarious. 42 pages and still going. End of the day NM and ML got fired, took around 10 players from various age groups across the river whether on true or false pretenses and FVU is left wondering how that happened.
FVU leadership was arrogant enough to think firing 3 out of their 4 McLean coaches would come with no repercussions, but they will live on in some way, wether itâs ECNL or go back to VYS. We just witnessed the end of a pretty damn good team FVU 2010âs whom will never be the same. We played them every year and will miss that level of competitivenessâŚfrom a VDA parent. Oh well. Just another Friday in DMV youth soccer I guess. Letâs see what 2026 brings us, if itâs anything like the last 4 years, itâs gonna be exciting and drama filled. |
It would have been honest. There's that. Many other players go to the playoffs with a team they decided not to stay with. Happens every year, but a least they are honest about it. Say whatever you need to sleep at night, travel across the river and play spring ball. Parents made their choice, the coach was underhanded and shady about it, but he wanted players to follow him. Go. Enjoy. Your player will be missed, but the crap this situation created will not. FVU is not awful, it's not great at the moment, but it's not awful. We will figure out, really good and skilled kids are still grinding it out and they like each other a lot, they are hungry to play together as team. So say whatever you need, follow who ever you want. I hope it will be worth it. But FVU will be just fine. And for everyone else who is reading this and chose to leave after playoffs or right before to play with BSC at the playoffs. No need to bash the club you left - doing so says more about you than the club you left. |
This is not true by any means. Amongst the new BSC parents were a couple of the biggest, most vocal complainants of these coaches, especially NM. This hypocrisy is crazy! Keep in mind too some players chose to leave, but many more actually chose to stay. I guess most people did not feel as you've imagined... but good story. |
KL and NM working together after years of talking trash about each other publicly and while recruiting eachotherâs players. This should be fun to watch! |
Lies! More than a few had no plan or intention to leave at all, until they got the calls from the new BSC coaches. In fact, their initial reaction was shock and despair that the team could be breaking apart as leaving was never their intention. But the manipulation, hard sell and promises worked on them. |
100% |
Please explain the manipulation, hard sell and and promises!! Didnât two of the 5 coming over not sign up in the first place? |
If FVU had handled it a little cleaner, cutting NM and ML loose sooner and not appearing to be in the throes of chaos all of the time, almost no one would have followed them. I think most people realize they are both low level in terms of their knowledge of the game and coaching ability. |