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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You bring up a good point. If the team’s results are good, but a coach is just on his phone most of the time, how much coaching or direction is actually going on? [/quote]

During a game, there really shouldn’t be much chatter from the sideline during play.  That’s actually a sign of bad coaching/joysticking.  A really good coach is able to get his points across during training.   Specific tactics can be communicated pregame and reinforced/changed with quick chats at half.  If there is a serious issue during a game, there may be place for a brief word with a player or two, but otherwise silence is golden.   That said, I see nothing wrong with a coach/TD making recruitment materials during a well played game to promote their top teams.   It’s actually part of their job, especially for a smaller club with no financial backing from big sponsors, large scale rec program, or a larger entity behind them.  [/quote]

Lol.   Pep sucks then.   [/quote]

Pep doesn't joystick players, does he?[/quote]

Of course not.  That's part of the reason this is such an ignorant statement:  "there really shouldn’t be much chatter from the sideline during play.  That’s actually a sign of bad coaching/joysticking."

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We are talking about youth soccer for ulittles, not pro european leagues.   The ignorant argument here is your own.[/quote]

Great comeback.  Not sure if I can recover from that one.

So youth players need [i]less[/i] instruction than professionals, not more.  Got it.

The best youth coaches will approach weekend games as an extension of the training week.  Some will coach the same way they would during a scrimmage - which could mean a fair amount of "chatter", pertaining to off-the ball positioning, after-the-fact technical corrections, mindset reminders, etc... .   Some will choose to quietly observe and save their points for the halftime talk, or even next week at the training ground.    Neither approach is necessarily better than the other.  Some coaches may even shift between one extreme and the other, and often be somewhere in the middle, depending on their professional judgement about what a team needs at that given moment.

It is as ignorant to state that "chatter" from the sidelines is a sign of bad coaching/joysticking, as it would be to suggest that a coach who sits an watches quietly is "not doing anything."

What matters is the content of the sideline chatter, not the quantity, but I'm guessing you have no idea how to determine quality coaching content from pure garbage, so you fall back on stupid and shallow platitudes like "there really shouldn’t be much chatter from the sideline during play.  That’s actually a sign of bad coaching/joysticking."

The only thing dumber than that statement was what followed it:  "I see nothing wrong with a coach/TD making recruitment materials during a well played game to promote their top teams."

Regardless of coaching style, at the absolute bare minimum a coach should be expected to be paying attention.   There is absolutely no way to justify - or defend - a coach who is not even watching his team play during a match.  [/quote]

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