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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ha, yeah. The email I got (despite signing up during the early bird registration) was: "Hi parents! This email list is your team. We don't have a coach for you, so one of you will have to do it. Please let me know who. Your first game is this Saturday at 10am."  That email came on the Thursday before the first game.

It was a ridiculous season. One other parent and I co-coached. Neither of us knew the first thing about soccer, let alone about coaching.  I was traveling for work every other week.  3/4 of the kids had never played before, we were clearly the team of leftover kids that didn't have an "in" team.  We had enough kids for the field plus 2 extra, IF everyone showed up - we frequently had to play games a player or two short (and the opposing teams always had a full field plus a full team worth of subs). One of the opposing coaches yelled at me on the field for not agreeing to skip water breaks, because his kids wanted to play through (he had enough for 3 full teams and subbed out the whole field every 3-5 minutes, I was one short of a full field so had zero subs on a late May afternoon).

My kid quit soccer at the end of that year. Can't say I was sorry. [/quote]

Why is that anyone else’s fault? People’s expectations of rec sports programs are completely unrealistic in this area. It’s often going to be just as messy as you describe and that’s OK (except for the other coach yelling of course). It supposed to fun and casual and community-led. It’s why travel soccer costs 20x or more what rec soccer does.[/quote]

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