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[quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad][quote=Anonymous]
Read what you just wrote. Yes it is. No one is disputing these coaches exist, as another poster said.
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And yet I just read this ...

[quote]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.[/quote]

THAT is anecdotal evidence, and the generalization has been refuted.

If you don't want to believe there are tons of parent coaches out there who are better qualified than the 24-year-old dude who just finished the grassroots courses, I don't know what to tell you.

Peeking now at a couple of clubs that I don't want to single out (in part because they're nice enough to list their coaches' credentials on their sites, which many clubs do NOT do):

- A club's girls travel director has a D license and topped out his playing career at PDL. (No college playing experience listed.)

- Same club has a coach with an E license, though he has an NSCAA goalkeeping diploma.

- Another coach is a D license "candidate"

- Moving to another club: Coach of two travel teams played at minor colleges and has an E license.

- Another has an E and also played minor-college soccer

- Another played college *club* soccer and has an E. Also plays over-40 soccer

- Another played college *intramurals* and has an E.

- Another club: E license

- Another club: Coach played at NOVA and got E license. Also served as *travel director* for a small club.

Of course, credentials don't mean everything. Some of these coaches may be terrific. The younger ones all have to start somewhere (though maybe they should try a rec team before they move up to travel?).

You do have to wonder, though, about people who say they've been coaching professionally for seven years and can't be bothered to get a D license. Yeah, coaching education should be more accessible in this country, but that's plenty of time.

If you just got out of a big-time college program AND have a good rapport with kids, great. Someone in my E license course a few years ago met that description. (She didn't stick in youth soccer very long, though -- she's now an assistant at Maryland.)

But do you really think there aren't coaches at MSI Classic who can't match up favorably with some of the coaches above? Or perhaps a coach who got a D license but just shouts nonsense at players all day? (We've all seen those coaches, haven't we? If not, I'd venture to say you've never seen fewer than three travel soccer games in your life.)

So ... shall we move on? 
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Seeing as you literally highlighted the part of my post in which I said no one’s denying that these qualified parent coaches exist, I don’t see how you get off on saying I “don’t want to believe there are qualified parent coaches out there.”

You must just like reading what you write, but you’re arguing with yourself here...[/quote]

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