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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is everyone panicking about 2013’s VRSC team?  GD doesn’t usually coach teams that young.  Maybe he’s only just assisting?  He expects when you get to his level and age that fundamentals and certain technical skills have been developed.  He thrives on creating set pieces and executing higher level strategies to close out games. [/quote]

Sounds like he thrives on shaking down parents for cash-for-playtime. Sounds like a real loser.[/quote]

My daughter played for him and started.  Never had to pay.  That’s because she actually could play.  Why is everything on this string so dramatic?[/quote]

Any coach who shakes parents down for cash to get playtime for their kids is unethical and sleazy. Every kid should be playing in every game regardless of whether they bribe the coach or not. [/quote]

How is this different than trying out and playing for your fall / spring coach in the preceding summer in Super Y? Players do it to get better and so their coach gets to know them better, with a view to getting a leg up for playing time in the fall. Parents pay the club for the privilege, and the club pays the coach to coach the team. Lots of local coaches similarly offer clinics and camps during summer and school breaks where there is always a contingent of the coaches club players present. Does sending the money through the club so they can take a cut actually launder it for you? Sounds like GD’s extra sessions were well known by players, parents, and club, and have been for years, so this seems like much adu about nothing, except that’s what this board exists for. [/quote]

Very well said.  His side business of training has been in existence for a long time.  The club(s) always knew and parents and players also knew.  It only became an issue when GFR and the board was being put on notice and things took a turn.  GFR board lashed out at coaches not only GD who were training and said they needed to take a cut.[/quote]

My kids have done a fair amount of private and group training over the years and it always annoyed me when the club took a cut. I sent my kids to the coach not the club, and the club added absolutely no value, but they took money out of the coach’s pockets and off his or her family’s table. In my view, it’s the clubs who are the sleazy greedy people when they force individual coaches to give them a share of what parents want to pay them. [/quote]

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