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Anonymous wrote:On a serious note- and please no peanut gallery or trolls just spewing rubbish rumors.
How many Valor coaches are actually coaching their own kid? I only know of one that is disliked by most of the parents on the team. Are there more? Specific age group and gender please.

Someone went thru in this thread many pages ago and counted a bunch of teams (10-@) with parents coaching their own kid. And those were just the teams people who post here mentioned or knew about, so there are likely more. That's a substantial percentage of their teams, and its almost all lower-tier teams, where parents are generally unhappier anyway. Getting a substandard experience for the same price your kid's friend pays for the "gold" team with the "real" coach is a recipe for sour customers.

Someone also went through that list and debunked some as people who didn't even have children.

There is zero benefit to the other players/families to pay for a team situation with a Daddy Coach and so many ways the team dynamic can go very wrong. If Valor offered a large discount to play on those teams, that would be a different situation.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On a serious note- and please no peanut gallery or trolls just spewing rubbish rumors.
How many Valor coaches are actually coaching their own kid? I only know of one that is disliked by most of the parents on the team. Are there more? Specific age group and gender please.

Someone went thru in this thread many pages ago and counted a bunch of teams (10-@) with parents coaching their own kid. And those were just the teams people who post here mentioned or knew about, so there are likely more. That's a substantial percentage of their teams, and its almost all lower-tier teams, where parents are generally unhappier anyway. Getting a substandard experience for the same price your kid's friend pays for the "gold" team with the "real" coach is a recipe for sour customers.

If you can't identify the specific coach, you're just spreading the same rumors without any factual substance.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On a serious note- and please no peanut gallery or trolls just spewing rubbish rumors.
How many Valor coaches are actually coaching their own kid? I only know of one that is disliked by most of the parents on the team. Are there more? Specific age group and gender please.

Serious question. I have only been in the travel soccer world for a few years but been around other travel youth sports for over a decade. Why is a parent coaching their kid in soccer such a big deal? It happens in other travel/AAU sports ALL the time and is almost the norm

I don't think it should be frowned upon if the coach remains impartial with his/her son/daughter on the team. I understand the perceptions that could come with a coach with his/her own child on the team.

The only one I know of in Valor is the 2014 girls third team. I cannot speak to how good or bad that coach is, but I've read some of the gripes about him. The only observation I can comment on, which might piss off some of the parents on his team, is that his daughter seems to be the best player on the team. I've only seen that team play two games, so my observation is only from those two games. But from what I can see, that team's performance would fall apart if his daughter was pulled. So, from a reasonable person's standpoint, is it really favoritism to his daughter if she gets more minutes?

We took one of our kids to travel baseball specifically to avoid Daddyball coaches.

Anonymous wrote:On a serious note- and please no peanut gallery or trolls just spewing rubbish rumors.
How many Valor coaches are actually coaching their own kid? I only know of one that is disliked by most of the parents on the team. Are there more? Specific age group and gender please.

Someone went thru in this thread many pages ago and counted a bunch of teams (10-@) with parents coaching their own kid. And those were just the teams people who post here mentioned or knew about, so there are likely more. That's a substantial percentage of their teams, and its almost all lower-tier teams, where parents are generally unhappier anyway. Getting a substandard experience for the same price your kid's friend pays for the "gold" team with the "real" coach is a recipe for sour customers.

Travel soccer is expensive. For $3200+, people expect a professional coach.

BRYC used to do some parent-coached travel teams that they charged $800/year for. But people knew what they were signing up for.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On a serious note- and please no peanut gallery or trolls just spewing rubbish rumors.
How many Valor coaches are actually coaching their own kid? I only know of one that is disliked by most of the parents on the team. Are there more? Specific age group and gender please.

Serious question. I have only been in the travel soccer world for a few years but been around other travel youth sports for over a decade. Why is a parent coaching their kid in soccer such a big deal? It happens in other travel/AAU sports ALL the time and is almost the norm

DP, but I think the fees for those other sports are not as high. Some people also like that soccer isn't as bad with the daddyball stuff as those other sports. If they wanted to deal with the bro dads running things, they would sign up for baseball or basketball.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On a serious note- and please no peanut gallery or trolls just spewing rubbish rumors.
How many Valor coaches are actually coaching their own kid? I only know of one that is disliked by most of the parents on the team. Are there more? Specific age group and gender please.

Serious question. I have only been in the travel soccer world for a few years but been around other travel youth sports for over a decade. Why is a parent coaching their kid in soccer such a big deal? It happens in other travel/AAU sports ALL the time and is almost the norm

Not the norm in high level/expensive AAU basketball.

Anonymous wrote:On a serious note- and please no peanut gallery or trolls just spewing rubbish rumors.
How many Valor coaches are actually coaching their own kid? I only know of one that is disliked by most of the parents on the team. Are there more? Specific age group and gender please.

Serious question. I have only been in the travel soccer world for a few years but been around other travel youth sports for over a decade. Why is a parent coaching their kid in soccer such a big deal? It happens in other travel/AAU sports ALL the time and is almost the norm

On a serious note- and please no peanut gallery or trolls just spewing rubbish rumors.
How many Valor coaches are actually coaching their own kid? I only know of one that is disliked by most of the parents on the team. Are there more? Specific age group and gender please.

Most clubs even lower level clubs like Valor will advertise a coach slate before tryouts. It is usually about 85% complete with a few TBDs because they don't know if they will be able to fill a roster for some lowest level teams.
Other local clubs are missing a few coach hires but published what they have and thats the normal.

Valor seems to be missing so many that they decided posting what they have to date would be more disastrous than posting nothing. Draw your own conclusions about the quality of the hires and prevalence of parent daddyball coaches.

Anonymous wrote:Did both Lewis brother coaches quit and go to VSA or just KL? No loss, just curious.

EL is still around. He has been recruiting for U9 Girls and is a coach for the age group.

Anonymous wrote:Is there a shortage of coaches in this whole area? Parents of other clubs posting about not having coaches listed.

Too many clubs and too many teams, that’s my guess

Anonymous wrote:No way is he retiring! He make almost $500k a year running these clubs!

Lol $500k is crazy.