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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes he did.  From conversations with other parents, it seems that prior to last year, travel was very fluid among the different teams within a given age group.  Players on the C team that were doing well would be pulled into B team games.  All that was stopped effective this fall.  In addition, I attended an SYC Town Hall last December where they stated the way travel 'billing' (for lack of a better word) would be handled.  Previously the team managers handled it but going forward it would be handled centrally (which makes sense from an efficiency standpoint).  Apparently the result was that the fees were doubled (and they said this was to account for the numerous travel scholarships that are awarded).  So yes, there has been some pretty big changes in the last two years.

It also seems that the former TD and other coaches who were let go were notified via email (no face-to-face meeting) and were not given an opportunity to present their case, with what essentially amounted to two days notice.  Of course if they were in at-will contracts then that's the way it goes, but that handling of the situation doesn't reflect well on SYC.  I have gathered that there are a lot of politics involved at the top of the soccer committee and this is probably reflective of that.[/quote]

It's been about a week since the announcement and likely a few practices, how's it going?[/quote]

I have a distinct feeling I am giving someone in the upper echelon of SYC anonymous feedback...but feedback is feedback.  We have had one practice, which I think went well but.  Didn't seem to differ too much from practice with prior TD.  New TD was not aware that we were participating in a futsal league and had a game scheduled for Sunday.  (In all fairness, he had only been on the job a day or two and SYC isn't known for its excellent communication skills so I am not surprised he didn't know.)  TD said he'd send an email to let the parents know what the deal was.  No email arrived but a coach did show up to the game (not the TD).  In talking with other parents on the team, there were a lot of (unanswered) questions as to why the former TD was let go, and lamenting that he was gone, as he was liked (at least by the parents I spoke with).  Which is not a knock on the new TD - we haven't gotten a chance to know him.

At the game on Sunday an LMVSC coach stayed to watch my child's game.  He mentioned that he used to report to Coach Este and has taken on an additional team as a result of Coach Este's move.  He wanted to watch our SYC team...not sure if he was sizing up the competition or what.  If he was it would be a little ridiculous as these are U Littles.  He did mention that LMVSC 'starts 'em young' (he was there with U13s for futsal).[/quote]

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