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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

But it isn't fun and casual when you have completely stacked teams season after season. And it isn't fun if you are on a team where not enough kids show up for games because people consider it optional because it's rec.  And it is a waste to spend your time coaching or managing a team and then not have players show up for games.  This is exactly why families choose travel soccer over rec, even low-level travel teams.  They don't want to put up with this nonsense.  [/quote]

100% correct!

Unfortunately this happens all the time. Usually it’s a rec coordinator stacking his team and leaving the scraps to the other coaches. Eventually people either leave by quitting soccer or joining travel.  That’s why rec players crumble when they get to high school because they never faced real competition except maybe an all star tournament twice a year. If you and your kid love soccer you are better off going travel to avoid these rec coordinators ego. [/quote]

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