Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:PWSI and VSA are VDA. There is nothing special about VDA. It’s the same below average coaching your DS or DD has gotten since they were U9. Only difference is the travel and costs. The boys side has lost most the talent due to the decision to go ECNL.
It's amazing how quickly VDA deletes posts. Can't stand the truth. In any case, word of mouth is far more powerful in the business world and that can’t be deleted.
Any coach, any sport, any league in the world is under same scrutiny. Either you win every game, or "something is wrong with you". You can never prove he is the reason a team lost and he can't prove he's the reason they won. His "great team" is winning... therefore, he's doing *literally* his job exactly as he should. He didn't take a super-team and tank them to mid-level, they are dominating. So, as for other teams, what do you expect? Every age group to be #1? I'm sorry... did I miss the ECNL webpage where one club has a #1 team in every age..? Darn. So, it would seem that you're DD is either playing all the time, exactly where she should, or you're gonna cry. There is zero harm to anyone. Girls are going to college. The best team in the area continues to show it. The teams only gained girls and those that left did so at their free will. Children, not pros. The coaches are doing exactly as they should. Sorry you had a bad experience, but watch out for VDA to continue to rise rise rise
Anonymous wrote:Coaches need to do a better job and parents would complain less.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:PWSI and VSA are VDA. There is nothing special about VDA. It’s the same below average coaching your DS or DD has gotten since they were U9. Only difference is the travel and costs. The boys side has lost most the talent due to the decision to go ECNL.
It's amazing how quickly VDA deletes posts. Can't stand the truth. In any case, word of mouth is far more powerful in the business world and that can’t be deleted.

Anonymous wrote:PWSI and VSA are VDA. There is nothing special about VDA. It’s the same below average coaching your DS or DD has gotten since they were U9. Only difference is the travel and costs. The boys side has lost most the talent due to the decision to go ECNL.
Anonymous wrote:Good refs don't generally get yelled at over bad calls because they generally make fewer of them.
New young refs will make bad calls and parents and coaches will yell at them. While this is certainly not ideal, what these refs need to do is really be objective about the call they made and recognize and admit if they made a mistake.
If week after week you keep getting called out for the same missed calls the problem just may be you and you should look into the rule, your positioning or any reason you keep missing the call and why you keep calling the same thing the same way.
Just because you are a ref doesn't mean you made the right call and by the same token, just because 10 parents hoot and holler doesn't mean you made a bad call either. But a young ref needs to be open to be self reflective and correct mistakes.
Anonymous wrote:Parents just need to chill on the refs and let the coaches express their displeasure for any bad calls. Parents are the ones abusing refs. Never have I ever seen a call overturned or calls go the teams way, whose parents abuse the ref. I would not mind being a ref on my days off but forget it. Parents are just idiots. I Could not handle it without knocking someone out. VDA over FCV.
Anonymous wrote:Maybe a rating system? Higher rated refs get paid more. Each team gets one vote. Over time, trends will emerge and highlight the good ones
Anonymous wrote:There is definitely a shortage of refs and especially high quality refs. Nothing like your DD working to play highly competitive soccer and have to deal with terrible ref calls. IMHO - refs allow a very physical level of play for girls soccer. A lot of games turn into rugby matches.