Should a coach travel on a family’s private plane?

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Anonymous wrote:Swim is one of the only sports where stats speak for themselves....

Except that they don't always follow that even then. Happened to my DS several times. It's wild.

Happens with T all the time. His tuckahoe swimmers have gotten preferential treatment for years. Winter Classic rosters are a perfect example.

This is BS. The great thing about this sport is it really is empirical and the times are readily available. Spent two minutes looking it up: went to meet mobile to see who swam for York at the Winter Classic and then compared to the rankings on swimcloud for York filtered by age group to see who was highest rated and then compared to the roster on mynvsl to see the Tuckahoe list. Results are that this post is full of crap. No swimmer got passed over so a Tuckahoe kid could swim who didn't earn it.

If your kid didn't get to swim I understand you may be looking for other reasons to rationalize it, but don't spread your hatred here with thin allegations.

Agree 100%. York had kids attend Winter Classic from all NVSL teams—not just Tuckahoe. Coach T selected swimmers from Donaldson Run, Chesterbrook, Overlee, Highlands, Yes, a lot of Tuckahoe swimmers attended, but they’re all strong swimmers who earned their spots.

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So you looked across all age groups and both genders? I think not. Or else you would clearly see kids were left out and others chosen who should have never been there.

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Anonymous wrote:So you looked across all age groups and both genders? I think not. Or else you would clearly see kids were left out and others chosen who should have never been there.

Different poster (also a York parent and not a tuckahoe member)- I strongly disagree that Tuckahoe kids were favored to swim at winter classic. Honestly I think that is absurd. Being able to send 80 kids to Winter Classic definitely creates some selection problems. It's different than summer swim when you can just go down the ladder. You have to look across strokes and try to figure out the kids who are likely to score points ideally in multiple events. Definitely having swum a bunch of different events makes a big difference- b/c the kids need times in most if not all events to be considered. I do think that the coaches look some at attitude- they want kids who they can count on to show up for all 3-4 days and come back for finals if they make it. They may also slightly favor kids whose parents they can count on to volunteer- even more so if the parent is an official. The attitude and volunteering aren't going to put a slower kid in over a faster kid- but when picking between 2 I suspect it helps.

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Anonymous wrote:So you looked across all age groups and both genders? I think not. Or else you would clearly see kids were left out and others chosen who should have never been there.

I did look across genders and age groups and I did not see anyone there who didn't deserve to be there. This is such an odd post when 1) York "won" the meet by significant margins, and 2) this is so easy to look up.

I'm so sorry you are wrapped up around this one. I get that you feel your kid should have been there and as a parent you want to fight for them, but this is a stretch at best.

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I’m glad this thread has turned into a landing page for every disgruntled parent of a 9 year old swimmer who thinks their kid is the next Olympian. You should all be embarrassed to post of all this b-s anonymously without any shred of evidence.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m glad this thread has turned into a landing page for every disgruntled parent of a 9 year old swimmer who thinks their kid is the next Olympian. You should all be embarrassed to post of all this b-s anonymously without any shred of evidence.

That may be a bit harsh of a check on a parent, but I do agree the anonymity makes posters feel they can toss any allegation they want.

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Anonymous wrote:So you looked across all age groups and both genders? I think not. Or else you would clearly see kids were left out and others chosen who should have never been there.

Okay elaborate . Please

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End of the day any coach with any sort of good sense would know where the line is between being friendly but professional with the parents of the kids you coach and actually being chummy with them. If Torey wants his Club to be successful he needs to learn how to do that quickly.

The fact that he was bad mouthing some of his swimmers does not shock me at all…sounds about right based on everything else I have heard about him or witnessed myself in the summer. There is a reason my kids don’t swim hot him at York.

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Anonymous wrote:End of the day any coach with any sort of good sense would know where the line is between being friendly but professional with the parents of the kids you coach and actually being chummy with them. If Torey wants his Club to be successful he needs to learn how to do that quickly.

The fact that he was bad mouthing some of his swimmers does not shock me at all…sounds about right based on everything else I have heard about him or witnessed myself in the summer. There is a reason my kids don’t swim hot him at York.

Yup, more non-specific BS.

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The fact that there are multiple threads on one coach should tell people enough. How many other coaches would this happen to?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So you looked across all age groups and both genders? I think not. Or else you would clearly see kids were left out and others chosen who should have never been there.

Okay elaborate . Please

Yeah which age group and gender do you see as problematic???? Because I am not seeing it at all…

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that there are multiple threads on one coach should tell people enough. How many other coaches would this happen to?

I think that's pretty much the point. You have a handful of people who don't like Torey and no specific reasons or examples to back any of the allegations. This could be one parent whose kid didn't get to swim at Winter Classic driving all of this or perhaps a coach or owner of another club who lost a location and is also being vocal with their grudge. Without specifics, volume of threads on an anonymous site means nothing. Each and every time details are asked for, the only responses are vague hints or ridiculous statements (the coach is chummy because he swam a relay against his kids in practice one day; some coaches talk smack about their swimmers and I can picture him doing it so he must have; he won a competitive contract but it must have been a sham because there is no way he could figure out how many swimmers a facility could hold and how much to charge per swimmer to underbid two other clubs by eating into his own profit).

If anything, the volume of threads shows me how ridiculous this all is. Can't we go back to just complaining about how tech suits are unfair in the NVSL, little kids shouldn't have to be walked off for false starts and how d1 teams don't support all star relays?

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that there are multiple threads on one coach should tell people enough. How many other coaches would this happen to?

I think that's pretty much the point. You have a handful of people who don't like Torey and no specific reasons or examples to back any of the allegations. This could be one parent whose kid didn't get to swim at Winter Classic driving all of this or perhaps a coach or owner of another club who lost a location and is also being vocal with their grudge. Without specifics, volume of threads on an anonymous site means nothing. Each and every time details are asked for, the only responses are vague hints or ridiculous statements (the coach is chummy because he swam a relay against his kids in practice one day; some coaches talk smack about their swimmers and I can picture him doing it so he must have; he won a competitive contract but it must have been a sham because there is no way he could figure out how many swimmers a facility could hold and how much to charge per swimmer to underbid two other clubs by eating into his own profit).

If anything, the volume of threads shows me how ridiculous this all is. Can't we go back to just complaining about how tech suits are unfair in the NVSL, little kids shouldn't have to be walked off for false starts and how d1 teams don't support all star relays?

The denial is strong!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact that there are multiple threads on one coach should tell people enough. How many other coaches would this happen to?

I think that's pretty much the point. You have a handful of people who don't like Torey and no specific reasons or examples to back any of the allegations. This could be one parent whose kid didn't get to swim at Winter Classic driving all of this or perhaps a coach or owner of another club who lost a location and is also being vocal with their grudge. Without specifics, volume of threads on an anonymous site means nothing. Each and every time details are asked for, the only responses are vague hints or ridiculous statements (the coach is chummy because he swam a relay against his kids in practice one day; some coaches talk smack about their swimmers and I can picture him doing it so he must have; he won a competitive contract but it must have been a sham because there is no way he could figure out how many swimmers a facility could hold and how much to charge per swimmer to underbid two other clubs by eating into his own profit).

If anything, the volume of threads shows me how ridiculous this all is. Can't we go back to just complaining about how tech suits are unfair in the NVSL, little kids shouldn't have to be walked off for false starts and how d1 teams don't support all star relays?

The denial is strong!

I was thinking the same thing!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact that there are multiple threads on one coach should tell people enough. How many other coaches would this happen to?

I think that's pretty much the point. You have a handful of people who don't like Torey and no specific reasons or examples to back any of the allegations. This could be one parent whose kid didn't get to swim at Winter Classic driving all of this or perhaps a coach or owner of another club who lost a location and is also being vocal with their grudge. Without specifics, volume of threads on an anonymous site means nothing. Each and every time details are asked for, the only responses are vague hints or ridiculous statements (the coach is chummy because he swam a relay against his kids in practice one day; some coaches talk smack about their swimmers and I can picture him doing it so he must have; he won a competitive contract but it must have been a sham because there is no way he could figure out how many swimmers a facility could hold and how much to charge per swimmer to underbid two other clubs by eating into his own profit).

If anything, the volume of threads shows me how ridiculous this all is. Can't we go back to just complaining about how tech suits are unfair in the NVSL, little kids shouldn't have to be walked off for false starts and how d1 teams don't support all star relays?

The denial is strong!

I was thinking the same thing!

Yes, that was a pretty strong denial. And the two responses from at least one person offered nothing substantive to the thread. That should be the most telling point.