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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Objectively, on the girls side Valor is doing a good job in the younger age groups.  Both the 14s and the 15s are near the top of the standings for preencl.  Moving forward the 14s are going to lose many of their players to national league teams.  Imo this shows that those coaches and Valor is doing a good job[/quote]

I have overall become skeptical of the idea that team success is a big reflection of coaching. Sometimes from the outside you see a team that is doing really well and think they must have a great coach. And then you talk to someone from the inside and they will tell you, the coach actually sucks. It’s just a good group of players. Very few teams fully stay together for more than a year or two. So it’s hard to attribute changes in their record to coaching. Sometimes it’s that that they gained a few good players. Some coaches are better than others at recruiting and building teams.

I think the real test of a good coach is if they can work with the same group of players over a few years and show significant progress in in terms of how well they play together as a team. Or if a significant number of players follow a coach to a different club. Individual development can be affected by so many outside factors with so many kids having trainers around here. [/quote]The 14s bled players over the years. Many made union which is well documented as a dumpster fire. The team could have been much stronger if they were able to keep players on the girls side but this is what happens at valor. Kids leave and in most cases they can’t backfill. [/quote]

But they did backfill and those players did well, the results speak for themselves.  Maybe they could have been stronger, but that is speculation at this point.   [/quote]

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