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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, you 2014 parents really thought your team would stay together for years and years and no one would ever leave for other opportunities?  Talk about ABSURD.  This is just not something that happens.  Very few teams endure and keep intact.  Especially with the age group change happening, you're nuts if you think this team was going to ALL stay at GFR and no one would seek other opportunities.

Gotta run get on my plane with my kid to Dallas now. lol[/quote]

LOL..i love the ending but I think the concern is the secret back door special opportunities that are being offered to a "select few" while the year is going on at another club that the same coach works for. Its a clear conflict of interest. That coach doesn't even coach the 2014s at Bethesda so it is clear they are funneling talent elsewhere. No team stays together forever, but they way some of the GFR coaches are doing it is alarming and definitely a conflict of interest. If you were running a business (which GFR clearly is) and and your supervisor found out that you were sending your clients to a rival competitor, you would be terminated immediately. They are paid by GFR to train and develop these kids, not send them and encourage them to go elsewhere to another club THEY WORK FOR AND GET PAID BY. At the end of the year, if the customer wants to try a different competitor then of course that is fine. If the parent wants to look at other opportunities prior to the end of the year, that is fine. But an employee of a business encouraging and setting up opportunities to land clients and customers for another competitor is unethical and violates the conflict of interest acknowledgment that each coach signs at GFR. [/quote]

Actually, this is exactly what I'd want my kids coach to be doing.  I might not be happy about it if I was the GFR boss lady but if my GFR coach was telling me my kid should be training with an ECNL team because they are that level of player and GFR doesn't have the competition they need to continue to develop, I'd be thrilled.  And if that coach could then point me in the direction because of his connections with that ECNL club?  EVEN BETTER!  Again, BSC is not GFR's competitor.  [/quote]

If you actually think 2 soccer clubs are not competitors, then you need to look up what a competitor is. The coach is actively involved in the process and only sends a "select few" and not open about it. You admitted that if you were the GFR boss lady that you might not be happy about it. If its ethical and ok, why would you be unhappy at all? Because its not ok and violates all ethical norms in business. You attitude just shows, you are ok with anything that doesn't effect or benefits you. There will be a time when it actually does and then you will be the one unhappy about it. It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.[/quote]

GFR isn't a business.  It's a non profit.  I meant that the GFR boss lady might be upset about it bc she might not want to lose some good players but at the end of the day she should be happy that they are developing players at GFR who can play at the ECNL level.  This is why she wants a pathway but until they have one, this is the way. [/quote]

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