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JH is just like JT. JH likes to cause drama.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter is currently on the 2014 white team, and we haven't heard anything. We have been told they will not even begin to make offers for the blue team to any current players until this mess with the Pre ECNL team is resolved. I have no idea if my daughter is going to get an offer, get officially cut, or get nothing. I don't know if to be sad or relieved. We don't have an offer anywhere else. This was our first year with Bethesda and I'm just really disappointed all around. I had no idea it would be this messy and disorganized.

I highly recommend checking out MSI if they still have tryouts this week. They have a current BSC coach (JH) joining them next year who has been great since he came to BSC from Potomac. MSI Gold/Silver may not always compete at the same level as BSC Pre-E or Blue/White (depends on the age group), but he will develop players' technical skills. We played for him last year at BSC and he developed quite a few players who moved up to BSC Pre-E and E2.

I second this recommendation. Our neighbor is a current 2014 BCS family who declined their BSC Pre E offer. They are noodling on offers from Potomac, MSI, and I think PPA. As of right now, they are leaning towards MSI looks because of what they have heard about JH (their daughter wasn't previously coached by him) and apparently MSI is a fraction of the cost of both Potomac and PPA.

JH is just like JT. JH likes to cause drama.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter is currently on the 2014 white team, and we haven't heard anything. We have been told they will not even begin to make offers for the blue team to any current players until this mess with the Pre ECNL team is resolved. I have no idea if my daughter is going to get an offer, get officially cut, or get nothing. I don't know if to be sad or relieved. We don't have an offer anywhere else. This was our first year with Bethesda and I'm just really disappointed all around. I had no idea it would be this messy and disorganized.

I highly recommend checking out MSI if they still have tryouts this week. They have a current BSC coach (JH) joining them next year who has been great since he came to BSC from Potomac. MSI Gold/Silver may not always compete at the same level as BSC Pre-E or Blue/White (depends on the age group), but he will develop players' technical skills. We played for him last year at BSC and he developed quite a few players who moved up to BSC Pre-E and E2.

I second this recommendation. Our neighbor is a current 2014 BCS family who declined their BSC Pre E offer. They are noodling on offers from Potomac, MSI, and I think PPA. As of right now, they are leaning towards MSI looks because of what they have heard about JH (their daughter wasn't previously coached by him) and apparently MSI is a fraction of the cost of both Potomac and PPA.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter is currently on the 2014 white team, and we haven't heard anything. We have been told they will not even begin to make offers for the blue team to any current players until this mess with the Pre ECNL team is resolved. I have no idea if my daughter is going to get an offer, get officially cut, or get nothing. I don't know if to be sad or relieved. We don't have an offer anywhere else. This was our first year with Bethesda and I'm just really disappointed all around. I had no idea it would be this messy and disorganized.

I highly recommend checking out MSI if they still have tryouts this week. They have a current BSC coach (JH) joining them next year who has been great since he came to BSC from Potomac. MSI Gold/Silver may not always compete at the same level as BSC Pre-E or Blue/White (depends on the age group), but he will develop players' technical skills. We played for him last year at BSC and he developed quite a few players who moved up to BSC Pre-E and E2.

I second this recommendation. Our neighbor is a current 2014 BCS family who declined their BSC Pre E offer. They are noodling on offers from Potomac, MSI, and I think PPA. As of right now, they are leaning towards MSI looks because of what they have heard about JH (their daughter wasn't previously coached by him) and apparently MSI is a fraction of the cost of both Potomac and PPA.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter is currently on the 2014 white team, and we haven't heard anything. We have been told they will not even begin to make offers for the blue team to any current players until this mess with the Pre ECNL team is resolved. I have no idea if my daughter is going to get an offer, get officially cut, or get nothing. I don't know if to be sad or relieved. We don't have an offer anywhere else. This was our first year with Bethesda and I'm just really disappointed all around. I had no idea it would be this messy and disorganized.

I highly recommend checking out MSI if they still have tryouts this week. They have a current BSC coach (JH) joining them next year who has been great since he came to BSC from Potomac. MSI Gold/Silver may not always compete at the same level as BSC Pre-E or Blue/White (depends on the age group), but he will develop players' technical skills. We played for him last year at BSC and he developed quite a few players who moved up to BSC Pre-E and E2.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter previously had Coach MM (blue). He is a good coach and he puts in effort to develop the players. BSC 3rd and 4th teams are more competitive than MSI travel. Declined offers are likely a reaction to coaching staff for the higher team.

Sometimes they are, but not always. In some age groups the MSI Gold team has beat both BSC 3rd/4th teams. BSC 3rd/4th teams are usually better than the MSI Silver teams though. However, I heard that BCS coach JH is leaving BSC and going over to MSI and will be coaching the 2014 and 2012 Silver team (MSI announced him as a coach for next year on their website). JH is a great gain for MSI. He has a great reputation as a coach, for both older and younger teams, and mostly importantly as an individual. If MSI can pull together a good roster for its Silver teams (heard they are off to a good start with the 2014 team giving the BSC debacle), I'm betting on MSI's 2014 Silver team over whatever Pre E team BCS manages to cobble together.

This is correct at more and more ages, plus things can change awfully fast with a few strong additions and added depth if girls leave BSC/Potomac for MSI.

Agreed. And whether BSC/Potomac like it or not, girls are leaving for MSI, Juventus, FCGB, ROSA, others. Maybe not from E1 or E2, but from the teams that finance the clubs' overall operations.

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Anonymous wrote:For the current 2014 girls, the season has/was a series of bad mishaps. The coach of the e1 team was/is a yeller. Very few like him, they just tolerate him. Allegations of a conflict of interest relationship with a parent of a child on on the team. Coach of e2 team nice enough but not always present (parents with coaching experience often had to step in to coach when she couldn’t be there). Coach of pre e team was nice, but was new. Coach of blue and white team, a failure to launch. Then come tryouts and other than the girls on the e1 team no one really knew where they stood. It took them forever to announce the coaching slate for next year and when they did, the list was lackluster at best. The coach of e1 and e2 teams, has a winning record but apparently he accomplishes that by creating a negative competitive spirit. The coach of the Pre E team, I don’t know of anyone with anything positive to say about him. Coach of the 4th team seems nice enough but the word is he always gets stuck with the bottom team and they expect him to work a miracle with them.

The end result - offers came out, and those who got Pre E offers went in search of something betterf.

WOW!!! wake up and smell the drama... Parents who don't get the offers they want or think their child deserves come on these forums and talk poorly about coaches who have been nothing short of outstanding. The current 2014s u11 coach Jasons main focus has and continues to be the development of the whole team and the individual player (which is more then most coaches). Jason took the 2014 E1s for two years... They spent fall 2024 losing most of their regular season games and could not make it out of a bracket to save their lives at their tournaments... By winter 2025 the girls were cohesive, well connected and developing. They trained up and eventually ranked number 1 in the state defeating all their competitors at Jefferson cup- top flight. Jasons coaching is unmatched. And while our team moves forward out of the youth development program we know we are in good hands moving forward with Kevin Layton.

Posts like the one above come from parents who say they want to work under coaches who only focus on development, but then complain when they get lesser offers then they think they deserve or who club hop and trophy chase!!!

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter previously had Coach MM (blue). He is a good coach and he puts in effort to develop the players. BSC 3rd and 4th teams are more competitive than MSI travel. Declined offers are likely a reaction to coaching staff for the higher team.

Sometimes they are, but not always. In some age groups the MSI Gold team has beat both BSC 3rd/4th teams. BSC 3rd/4th teams are usually better than the MSI Silver teams though. However, I heard that BCS coach JH is leaving BSC and going over to MSI and will be coaching the 2014 and 2012 Silver team (MSI announced him as a coach for next year on their website). JH is a great gain for MSI. He has a great reputation as a coach, for both older and younger teams, and mostly importantly as an individual. If MSI can pull together a good roster for its Silver teams (heard they are off to a good start with the 2014 team giving the BSC debacle), I'm betting on MSI's 2014 Silver team over whatever Pre E team BCS manages to cobble together.

This is correct at more and more ages, plus things can change awfully fast with a few strong additions and added depth if girls leave BSC/Potomac for MSI.

Anonymous wrote:For the current 2014 girls, the season has/was a series of bad mishaps. The coach of the e1 team was/is a yeller. Very few like him, they just tolerate him. Allegations of a conflict of interest relationship with a parent of a child on on the team. Coach of e2 team nice enough but not always present (parents with coaching experience often had to step in to coach when she couldn’t be there). Coach of pre e team was nice, but was new. Coach of blue and white team, a failure to launch. Then come tryouts and other than the girls on the e1 team no one really knew where they stood. It took them forever to announce the coaching slate for next year and when they did, the list was lackluster at best. The coach of e1 and e2 teams, has a winning record but apparently he accomplishes that by creating a negative competitive spirit. The coach of the Pre E team, I don’t know of anyone with anything positive to say about him. Coach of the 4th team seems nice enough but the word is he always gets stuck with the bottom team and they expect him to work a miracle with them.

The end result - offers came out, and those who got Pre E offers went in search of something betterf.

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is currently on the 2014 white team, and we haven't heard anything. We have been told they will not even begin to make offers for the blue team to any current players until this mess with the Pre ECNL team is resolved. I have no idea if my daughter is going to get an offer, get officially cut, or get nothing. I don't know if to be sad or relieved. We don't have an offer anywhere else. This was our first year with Bethesda and I'm just really disappointed all around. I had no idea it would be this messy and disorganized.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter previously had Coach MM (blue). He is a good coach and he puts in effort to develop the players. BSC 3rd and 4th teams are more competitive than MSI travel. Declined offers are likely a reaction to coaching staff for the higher team.

Sometimes they are, but not always. In some age groups the MSI Gold team has beat both BSC 3rd/4th teams. BSC 3rd/4th teams are usually better than the MSI Silver teams though. However, I heard that BCS coach JH is leaving BSC and going over to MSI and will be coaching the 2014 and 2012 Silver team (MSI announced him as a coach for next year on their website). JH is a great gain for MSI. He has a great reputation as a coach, for both older and younger teams, and mostly importantly as an individual. If MSI can pull together a good roster for its Silver teams (heard they are off to a good start with the 2014 team giving the BSC debacle), I'm betting on MSI's 2014 Silver team over whatever Pre E team BCS manages to cobble together.

Anonymous wrote:My daughter previously had Coach MM (blue). He is a good coach and he puts in effort to develop the players. BSC 3rd and 4th teams are more competitive than MSI travel. Declined offers are likely a reaction to coaching staff for the higher team.