Anonymous
04/06/2025 12:50
Subject: GFR Falling apart?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Then they shouldn’t market themselves as a travel club if it’s going to be run by rec parents. Let them have a rec program run by parent coaches. See how fast that lasts without the travel parents coughing up $2,500/year. Plenty of other clubs nearby that will take their money and provide better coaches and training.
They market themselves as a soccer club: that is rec and travel.
They probably have more rec players than travel players. Rec players are very profitable around here by the way.
Anonymous
04/06/2025 12:18
Subject: GFR Falling apart?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Then they shouldn’t market themselves as a travel club if it’s going to be run by rec parents. Let them have a rec program run by parent coaches. See how fast that lasts without the travel parents coughing up $2,500/year. Plenty of other clubs nearby that will take their money and provide better coaches and training.
They market themselves as a soccer club: that is rec and travel.
They probably have more rec players than travel players. Rec players are very profitable around here by the way.
What do you mean by profitable?
Anonymous
04/06/2025 11:32
Subject: GFR Falling apart?
Anonymous wrote:We started in GFR’s rec program and continued with their travel program for a few years. I have nothing but good things to say about the coaches we had, they were very focused on development. Moved on, as DS wanted to play above RL, and received the training there to play at a higher level. Sad to see how they’ve treated their management and coaches over the last few years.
Similar situation. My daughter left after many years in the travel program to play GA but all of this chaos the last few years definitely has had a negative impact. Players who had NM as a coach are very unhappy right now to have him removed middle of the year especially. He had turned a few teams that needed good coaching completely around. Sad for those who lost him
Anonymous
04/06/2025 11:26
Subject: GFR Falling apart?
We started in GFR’s rec program and continued with their travel program for a few years. I have nothing but good things to say about the coaches we had, they were very focused on development. Moved on, as DS wanted to play above RL, and received the training there to play at a higher level. Sad to see how they’ve treated their management and coaches over the last few years.
Anonymous
04/06/2025 11:20
Subject: GFR Falling apart?
Anonymous wrote:Then they shouldn’t market themselves as a travel club if it’s going to be run by rec parents. Let them have a rec program run by parent coaches. See how fast that lasts without the travel parents coughing up $2,500/year. Plenty of other clubs nearby that will take their money and provide better coaches and training.
They market themselves as a soccer club: that is rec and travel.
They probably have more rec players than travel players. Rec players are very profitable around here by the way.
Anonymous
04/06/2025 10:57
Subject: GFR Falling apart?
Let’s face it. A lot of the “travel coaches” don’t have licenses anyways. And they have no interest in Coach education to get better. The travel system is broken. There’s a huge need for better coaches who are invested in their trade. But what you are paying for are uneducated coaches, who scream and yell and chase the W - think about long term development and fun… Oh wait that doesn’t exist in most travel clubs… keep chasing those bumper stickers tho
Anonymous
04/06/2025 10:51
Subject: GFR Falling apart?
Then they shouldn’t market themselves as a travel club if it’s going to be run by rec parents. Let them have a rec program run by parent coaches. See how fast that lasts without the travel parents coughing up $2,500/year. Plenty of other clubs nearby that will take their money and provide better coaches and training.
Anonymous
04/06/2025 10:13
Subject: GFR Falling apart?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is this whole thing an effort to get GA/MLS Next 2 to GFR? And in order to make it happen they had to oust the ECNL guys? Or is this an effort to get into The Onion with friends?
Absolutely not. The guys who are running the club are rec soccer guys, they probably don't even know what MLS next is lol
You label them “rec soccer guys” as if it’s an insult. The rec soccer model is how youth sports is intended to be and what provides the best outcomes. There are many studies that support this.
The travel model is nothing but a scheme designed to generate money for soccer directors by selling parents on a false hope of scholarships by following a mythical pathway. A pathway that changes every 12-24 months, by the way.
Anonymous
04/06/2025 09:43
Subject: GFR Falling apart?
Anonymous wrote:So the board of a soccer org doesnt know anything about soccer or hiring coaches?!
This board sure doesn’t.
Anonymous
04/06/2025 09:26
Subject: GFR Falling apart?
So the board of a soccer org doesnt know anything about soccer or hiring coaches?!
Anonymous
04/06/2025 07:29
Subject: GFR Falling apart?
RS, NM and ML were directors and coaches. So they basically fired the people who would usually hire the new coaches. Board members with little to no soccer experience will be doing that now? These guys had decades of experience coaching in this area.
Anonymous
04/05/2025 22:27
Subject: GFR Falling apart?
Which teams don't have coaches any more
Anonymous
04/05/2025 22:11
Subject: GFR Falling apart?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So they only fired two coaches, total.
RS and NM also coached several teams. 12 teams lost head coaches
NM coached 12 teams? Wow, why’d they fires the hardest working man in ECNL? I heard he also held down a full time job as a brain surgeon.
Anonymous
04/05/2025 22:10
Subject: GFR Falling apart?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So they only fired two coaches, total.
RS and NM also coached several teams. 12 teams lost head coaches
Yikes. Not sure where gfr is going to find so many coaches last minute.
Im sure no one has offered parents a refund.
Anonymous
04/05/2025 20:23
Subject: GFR Falling apart?
Anonymous wrote:So they only fired two coaches, total.
RS and NM also coached several teams. 12 teams lost head coaches