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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC Urban Dad here just scrolling through reading all these comments and waiting to watch MC smack down BLC in the spring league like they always do.  SR Asst Varsity coach is now the 26M coach, btw.  The parents who were previously coaching that team had over-extended their time as parent coaches and weren't moving the team to where they needed to be but didn't want to let go.  Got mad when MC brought in real coaches, which was what the aforementioned parent meeting was all about.  We had a front seat to the whole thing - those parent coaches were toxic to the team.  Team is in a much better place since they left.  My wife was in that same parent meeting and was happy to hear that the club was asking the girls to be more intense. Yes - if your kid is being too laid back at practice and isn't taking it seriously enough then they won't get better and shouldn't be playing at a travel level people.  4-5 people who left weren't cut out for playing at that level.  Thought they were better than they were and and tried out for other travel clubs and most ended up stepping backwards to lower level teams except for 1-2 who were truly exceptional and went to Baltimore teams.  Moving from ANY travel club (Pride, Heroes, Stars, MC etc..) to a rec program in middle school if you want your kid to be able to make their HS Varsity team is about as idiotic as parents who think that a 25-year old goalie buying Capital was going to change anything.  FWIW - the most successful clubs on a national level are run by former HS and collegiate level coaches, not kids who played in college or parents who have big egos and have enough money to buy into a club for swagger.  Just look at the success of M&D and Philly Blast, for starters, and check their execs resumes.

My advice to anyone truly looking for club and team information is this:  I have learned over the years that this forum is full of parents pretending to know more than they do, spreading rumors about other clubs in the hope of benefiting their own club and hiding behind the anonymity that this forum allows.  Go to tryouts.  Research who is running the club and what their resume looks like.  Look and see what events the club competes in and what brackets they are in and what the scores were.  If your kid wants to play in college find out if the Club is putting kids in college?  What level?  How does your child look against the other players?  Just do your own research because every club is different and even within each club the teams and dynamics at each age group are very different.  And those dynamics frequently change as players come and go and coaches shift.  Just my two cents.[/quote]

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There is a lot that is inaccurate above; with a smattering of some, limited accurate detail. This is the MC spin on a specific current situation with one team that lost a lot of players (7 total to different clubs) - but it is not the only team that has had these problems or that has had similar issues.

Bottom-line - [b]not only is the post ironic in doing exactly what it criticizes others for doing with a dose of patriarchy and machismo[/b] (think a lot of the posts above on this thread are authentically trying to share information to help decision making) . . .  but also, I think its tone says a lot about MC . . . . but just not in the way that the poster intended.

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As I was reading I immediately thought the same thing...his tone is exactly what is wrong with that place....hope he didn't think he was helping.[/quote]

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