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[quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Folks, This is not complicated.

Re: Classic/Select, go to the managers of the league and ask.

Re: Travel, go to the online ranking services and see who the top teams are. Then research the clubs or the coaches. For example, if you research U13, you will see that MRM Rush is the top club and can see how they have performed against ECNL teams. You will see that the same coach also coaches a U14 teams that is also highly ranked. Dig further and you will see that the same coach and co-coach have major experience and success sending players to the top DI programs. Then ask around.

I can't tell you who the best coach or team is for your kid but the process is not difficult. My kids have had classic/select coaches that were Argentine's who played professionally but now work in the area and others who played at the collegiate level and coached travel but have other priorities, i.e. kids. There are some coaches who have plans to move to travel after a year or two of classic. [/quote]

Do you have anything new to say? You keep repeating. First of all MSI Classic is not the same thing as a professionally coached select team. Almost all coaches in MSI Classic are parents and they are nice people but I haven't met a single one who is able to coach at the level of a paid professional.
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Shenanigans. Seriously.

I can't imagine there are no D license or even C license coaches in MSI Classic. Probably someone who played college soccer, too, and combines playing experience with coaching expertise. Geez -- I know a couple of people who meet that description from rec league.

Meanwhile, tons of "paid professionals" are just now getting their D licenses. And many of those who get that license are clueless people who get through that training and still think they can coach U10s the same way they were coached on their community-college teams but some dude who just screamed at them all the time.

On the WHOLE, OK, the average "paid professional" is going to be better than the average parent. But the top 20 percent of parent coaches will be better than half of the paid people. Many of the paid people have no clue how to deal with kids or how to teach, even if they played at a half-decent level. A lot of parents pick up those skills as they raise their kids and deal with other youth activities.[/quote]

Nobody disputes that these quality coaches exist. The trick is in knowing who the good coaches even are in an environment like MSI Classic where the coaches only real motivation is to coach their kids. When their kids are done or have moved on the parents stop coaching. There is nothing tangible but a few lightning in a bottle coaches who only coach for 2-3 years. That makes promoting a Classic like envy as a highly variable, volatile and risky option for a would be “serious” player.

Classic Soccer is what it is, a teaching, advanced recreational league that serves kids of limited (possibly temporarily) dedication to one or two sports, and nothing more. It can provide a good/decent competitive low impact environment to keep kids involved in the sport. It is not and does not claim to be a pathway to anything more than the sport itself.

That kids do move on to travel means that Classic simply succeeded in developing a growing love and dedication to the sport. And that was the real goal all along. [/quote]

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