Who is the biggest hack in NOVA Soccer?
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Anonymous
Then the lesson for you as a coach is this is how parents believe they are viewed by the club. |
Anonymous
The lesson for you is be an adult and not a snowflake. |
NOVASoccerCoach
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Well that's unreasonable because if I think your kid should come to additional training/pay for camps etc, its because I think they really need it, not because I want the club to make money. You're saying parents will think I just want their money when in reality there's no commission at all. |
Anonymous
How is it unreasonable under that situation to be viewed as nothing more than a open wallet? So you promote your clubs extra training, saying it is for the best of the player and then in another thread you ask what is special about HP? If a kid needed something in particular and you were truly interested in what is best for the kid then you would be able and willing to recommend outside training options, personal training as well as club opportunities. You may not get commission but steering kids towards club training at all costs is not always in the players best interest. This is when parents are made to feel like nothing more than a checkbook for the club. |
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I think you need to readjust your viewpoint here. Personally, I think paying for camps and such is all a cash grab. However, for example, if your kid lets say could be a very talented goalkeeper, I'm going to recommend them to GK training and GK camps. Whenever parents ask me what their kid additional camps/training they can do, I always tell them that if they worked at home it would be just as good and it would save them money. But of course, if I'm going to recommend a camp and I think the ones that our club has are good, I'll recommend it. Maybe I'll recommend others but most club coaches don't really have any sort of knowledge on which outside camps are any good. As a coach, I'm not here to save you money. I'm here to tell you what's best for your kid and what kind of training your kid needs to help them reach their goals. I'm not a "Travel Soccer Agent" looking to give you the best bang for your buck. I'm just here to recommend you what I think is best purely from a soccer-basis. |
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| From a business perspective one of the most valuable assets a coach (or TD/ED) at the elite high school age level can bring to the table are solid connections to college coaches. I.e where the college coaches trust the travel coach’s opinion enough to at least take time to go watch the player being referred. Paid soccer coaches are a dime a dozen now, so their network to creating a window into multiple college coaches is valuable, possibly more valuable than their ability to actually coach. The second best asset is the ability to honestly assess a player’s strengths and weaknesses and recommend training / approaches to focus on both (eliminating a glaring weaknesses and further honing difference making strengths). Next is the ability to coach the team aspect and IQ part of the game. In a distant fourth is the ability to train the player’s technical skills. That ability is much more important at the pre=HS ages. At he HS age it is pretty much up to the player to do their own homework and hone their individual technical skills. |