Anonymous
Post 04/22/2025 22:23     Subject: Valor
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Valor just posted they are hiring coaches 🤣🤣🤣


I just saw that too. I am trying to understand. Why not post that you are hiring in like Feb? So you have coaches in place before tryouts? Unless a lot of coaches just very recently told Valor they’re not coming back next year?


OMG
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2025 22:11     Subject: Valor
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Valor just posted they are hiring coaches 🤣🤣🤣


Ok and?

See the post above
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2025 22:08     Subject: Valor
Anonymous wrote:Valor just posted they are hiring coaches 🤣🤣🤣


Ok and?
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2025 22:07     Subject: Valor
Anonymous wrote:Valor just posted they are hiring coaches 🤣🤣🤣


I just saw that too. I am trying to understand. Why not post that you are hiring in like Feb? So you have coaches in place before tryouts? Unless a lot of coaches just very recently told Valor they’re not coming back next year?
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2025 21:54     Subject: Valor
Valor just posted they are hiring coaches 🤣🤣🤣
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2025 19:40     Subject: Valor
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You all are crazy. I've come to the conclusion that it isn't Valor, it's the community it services. If you are so bent on the coach's name and assignment it would make more sense to find a coach you want and go to that club instead of harping on the fact that they haven't hired a coach for the 2nd or 3rd team. What if they said, Jane Doe is now the coach and has played D1 and won a state championship. Does that mean you kid will become messi under her coaching?


Centreville where Valor is located is middle class to working class. It isn't known for its high maintenance wealthy families. Its not Mclean or Arlington.

You are paying $3000 for the *coaching*. That's it. It’s not high maintenance to not want to buy a pig in a poke.


You are forgetting about CYA zip codes which includes people in the Oakton and Chantilly pyramids. Not working class at all. Lots of socially awkward tech-y people who overthink and over analyze everything.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2025 19:01     Subject: Valor
Anonymous wrote:New parent here, what are the alternatives if we have a girl and live in Oak Hill?


Herndon. Vienna. GFR. BRYC. BAC.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2025 18:56     Subject: Valor
New parent here, what are the alternatives if we have a girl and live in Oak Hill?
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2025 18:48     Subject: Valor
Since they read this thread, they know parents want the coach slate before tryouts.

(Which, any reasonably org would know anyway. Its literally just the most basic information.)
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2025 17:04     Subject: Valor
Anonymous wrote:I teach and don't have time to read along during the day-can someone just tell
me if there is any info on the coach slate yet. Or when it will be published. One of my kids has tryouts this week! Thx


Has anyone reached out to the club leadership to inquire about when the coaching slate will be released? It might help if they heard from multiple members—sometimes a few emails can move things along.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2025 16:28     Subject: Valor
I teach and don't have time to read along during the day-can someone just tell
me if there is any info on the coach slate yet. Or when it will be published. One of my kids has tryouts this week! Thx
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2025 12:59     Subject: Valor
Anonymous wrote:You all are crazy. I've come to the conclusion that it isn't Valor, it's the community it services. If you are so bent on the coach's name and assignment it would make more sense to find a coach you want and go to that club instead of harping on the fact that they haven't hired a coach for the 2nd or 3rd team. What if they said, Jane Doe is now the coach and has played D1 and won a state championship. Does that mean you kid will become messi under her coaching?

If the club is going to continue to treat only 1st teams with any level of respect(you know the most basic of providing a coach name) maybe they should charge us lowly level teams less money.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2025 12:57     Subject: Valor
Anonymous wrote:You all are crazy. I've come to the conclusion that it isn't Valor, it's the community it services. If you are so bent on the coach's name and assignment it would make more sense to find a coach you want and go to that club instead of harping on the fact that they haven't hired a coach for the 2nd or 3rd team. What if they said, Jane Doe is now the coach and has played D1 and won a state championship. Does that mean you kid will become messi under her coaching?


Centreville where Valor is located is middle class to working class. It isn't known for its high maintenance wealthy families. Its not Mclean or Arlington.

You are paying $3000 for the *coaching*. That's it. Its not high maintenance to not want to buy a pig in a poke.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2025 12:52     Subject: Valor
Anonymous wrote:You all are crazy. I've come to the conclusion that it isn't Valor, it's the community it services. If you are so bent on the coach's name and assignment it would make more sense to find a coach you want and go to that club instead of harping on the fact that they haven't hired a coach for the 2nd or 3rd team. What if they said, Jane Doe is now the coach and has played D1 and won a state championship. Does that mean you kid will become messi under her coaching?


💯

Travel soccer in the US is almost exclusive to upper middle class and above. Which is why there are so many arrogant parents with delusions of entitlement. Most of them who probably never played soccer themselves but somehow feel they know better than the coaches and staff.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2025 12:52     Subject: Valor
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Its the "happy" adjective that no one believes given all the unhappy parents in this thread.

If Mr. Valor Staffer counted up 700 paying customers, no one is arguing about the 700. They aren't all happy customers for sure though.

Every other local club that we are looking into has posted almost full coaching slates for all levels.

Valor is a far, far outlier with having begun tryouts without coaches for most of their teams.
That is simply an inarguable fact.


False statement again. Either an outright lie if you knew and still made that statement. Or you didn’t know but made that claim without actually fact checking which would make you equally untrustworthy. Simply look at the other threads. There are parents asking about coaching slates in several different clubs.


What's an outright lie? "Every other local club that we are looking into has posted almost full coaching slates at all levels"?
This is absolutely true. We, our family, are looking into: SYC, Burke, Herndon, Vienna...all have nearly full lists posted for all levels.

Its completely bananas to show up for a tryout and accept a team offer and pay money without ever seeing a coach who doesn't exist yet. Bananas.

Are there clubs *currently holding tryouts* that have not posted their coach lists like Valor is trying to get away with doing?




Do Herndon and Burke only field one girls team for each age group? They only list one coach for each age, similar to what Valor has done so far.
Vienna and SYC mostly seem to have their sh*t together.
And someone from Arlington just started a post about the full coaching slate not being announced there either.


Don’t conflate complacency with competence. A full coaching slate doesn’t mean you automatically get a good coach. It often just means they hired a warm body for someone to call coach at the end of the day.