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Post by Keeper on Mar 28, 2024 5:54:36 GMT -5
I think it's annoying and it mostly does not help. Either parents yell the obvious "SHOOT!" and they often distract players so that they make a mistake. Or they yell things that are wrong, like "dribble!" when passing would have been better. I got annoyed at another mom for yelling to my kid recently. "Talk, one of you!" when I had told my kid not to not hesitate, that it's better to go for the ball than not when you're not sure what your team mate is doing and there's no time to "talk". I try to not coach from the sideline, but yeah sometimes I can't help saying something like "RUN!". But I often cheer and say things like nice pass! Nothing wrong with saying RUN!! LOL Except when the coach has told them not to. Maybe the coach is slowing the game down. Maybe they don’t have subs. Maybe someone is injured and can’t run like that. Lots of other reasons too so just don’t coach from the sideline. And never ever ever yell for a kid to shoot, that’s joystick coaching 101.
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Post by Keeper on Mar 15, 2024 16:15:55 GMT -5
I don't recall the exact rule, but I believe it is over the summer. Meaning, High School coaches can work with players over the summer, but as soon as school starts again in August, they are not allowed to be working with their players...as Club Coaches or in Private Sessions. Are there any Chamblee girls parents here who can clarify the exact rule? The exact rule from ghsa, 2.69 (c) A GHSA coach (certified teacher or community coach) may not coach a non-GHSA team in a competitive setting during the school year that includes any player(s) who participate in the sport he/she coaches at the member school. EXCEPTION: In a situation in which the child or step-child of the coach is the only player on a non-school team from the coach’s school, the coach would be exempted from this rule. This rule states if a soccer coach is on the staff at a member high school (head, assistant, or lay coach) and coached club soccer in the fall, that coach can’t coach ANY player, male or female on any club team and that is also in the soccer program at your high school, INCLUDING THE OPPOSITE GENDER TEAM. www.ghsa.net/reminder-soccer-coaching-restrictions
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Post by Keeper on Mar 14, 2024 19:26:12 GMT -5
Expect Gsa 2010 ECNL and RL to get new Coaches as Judson and Chad have had those groups since U12s and will probably take the 2012s.
Concorde 2010 ECNL Platinum should be keeping Eddie H, the RL Platinum will be getting a new coach. Premier side, Mark C should be keeping the ECNL 2010s and the RL team out of South just got a new coach as of January so doubt that changes.
Concorde 09s John will probably have to drop the ECNL Platinum due to coaching at AIS. Ecnl Premier and RL Platinum look to be keeping Brian and Rivah.
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Post by Keeper on Mar 6, 2024 21:31:50 GMT -5
Not that I’ve ever heard. Gregg and Ken’s egos are so high they don’t care who’s added. GB isn’t leaving? Thought his days were done. He owns the club. Why would he leave?
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Post by Keeper on Mar 6, 2024 10:13:49 GMT -5
Yes the territorial veto’s were taken away last year as historically GSA has vetoed all ECNL/RL expansion in the Metro. Has Concorde also vetoed expansion historically? Not that I’ve ever heard. Gregg and Ken’s egos are so high they don’t care who’s added.
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Post by Keeper on Mar 5, 2024 15:04:44 GMT -5
There will always be GA clubs in play for ECNL...this is not a knock on GA. As has been mentioned numerous times, GA has some very good clubs that would compete with the best of ECNL. TH has applied for Girls ECNL every year since they lost DA, but the rumblings are that there are a number of people on the ECNL board that do not want TH for various political reasons. TH was in ECNL before DA and it took them 2-3 years of applying before getting in the first time. Once DA came around, TH (TG) treated ECNL as a 2nd tier league and TG put his focus on DA. This still ruffles some the wrong way. The other interesting dynamic is that TH/NASA has ECNL on the boys side, but that has not been able to influence the higher ups at ECNL. "IF" TH was ever approved for Girls ECNL, I seriously doubt ECNL would give them 2 teams....like they have in GA. Debate all you want, but this rumors comes up every year.....FTR I could care less about leagues and enjoy watching TH, CF, UFA, and other teams play and have for many years. What I want to see is the top talent in the Atlanta area play each other....TH vs CF, UFA, or GSA.... these matches back in the ECNL and/or DA days were some of the best at all age groups u14-u18.....whatever format, please bring that back for the good of the girls game.... One of the other rumors is that ECNL leadership has stopped letting current clubs block other clubs from joining if it benefits them. Meaning it used to require a vote from all existing local clubs in a regional league before new clubs were let in. Often clubs would work together to keep certain clubs out if it was to their benefit. Not sure how this would actually be implemented unless members voting on new members was done away with. Yes the territorial veto’s were taken away last year as historically GSA has vetoed all ECNL/RL expansion in the Metro.
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Post by Keeper on Feb 21, 2024 20:58:42 GMT -5
Bro..not as seasoned as you. Good on ya. But I think you missed my point with what is happening moving forward with leagues. I never said SCCL was competitive with GA. Rather, I said neither GA nor SCCL was competitive with ECNL. GA is not the premiere destination for top players that it (or DA) once was. Look at tophat, for example, and their younger teams vs their older teams. Their younger teams do not draw anything close to the level of talent they once did: ie every top player wanted to play there in the past. That is not the case anymore and it's a clear trend. Now, you may argue that this is an issue stemming from the club per se, but the recent moves of other GA top clubs to ECNL tells the story. So, that leaves GA in a spot where it's no longer competing with ECNL but is still charging like a top academy all while brining in inferior clubs. Which makes SCCL an appealing choice. I get it that parents/coaches who have been in the forest of Georgia/US soccer have a hard time seeing the forest, but for parents looking for an alternative to ECNL, SCCL makes way more sense now compared to a couple of weeks ago even Really? Tophat 11 gold just beat GSA 11 ECNL and CF Plat 11 ECNL in a tourney this past weekend. As well as CESA ECNL. Doesn’t seem like they have a talent issue. True that 2011 Tophat team beat those ECNL teams in a preseason event where I believe two of those head coaches were in Dallas. It’s also true that that Tophat team is barely folding on as they are starting to crumble under the constant pressure and berating from Ted C. Just go look at how the 2010s are doing. So we’ll see how that talent looks in a year or two or like most older Tophat teams the burnout gets them.
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Post by Keeper on Feb 9, 2024 15:36:30 GMT -5
Why on earth would Nasa and Concorde drop and play in a lower level league then ECNL. Maybe for the their second teams. Nationally MLS Next is considered a higher level league than ECNL for boys. This is primarily because MLS Academies play in MLS Next. Hahahahaha!!! I guess Friday happy hour has already started. “Considered a higher level league than ECNL” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Post by Keeper on Feb 9, 2024 13:33:16 GMT -5
NASA and Concord will soon be in MLS Next then the opinions on this forum will change Why on earth would Nasa and Concorde drop and play in a lower level league then ECNL. Maybe for the their second teams.
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Post by Keeper on Feb 6, 2024 22:32:27 GMT -5
Final? And yeah Walton is (always) stacked with high level players so there are always disappointments. 4-1 final
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Post by Keeper on Feb 6, 2024 20:45:25 GMT -5
Johns Creek is stacked with ECNL players on all three teams. Centennial has a couple quality ones but no where near the same depth. Not familiar with Alpharetta. Johns Creek gets Walton tonight, it will be interesting to see how those two really good teams stack up. Fair to note these are for the most part early season so you never know how teams are affected by injuries/illness or just uncertainty in positions. Well JC is dominating Walton at half. Should be 3-0 but a bad call from the turf monster, not a player, leads to a Walton PK to get on the board. Still a 2nd half to play but it’s not looking good for the east Cobb snobs. Heard Walton coach made some very questionable cuts of high level nasa ECNL players so it may be coming back to bite him in the arse.
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Post by Keeper on Feb 3, 2024 18:57:03 GMT -5
Told by multiple parents today the whole club has folded and all teams disbanded. It’s a nightmare as families are scrambling to find a spring team and with SCCL already set for spring whole teams will be completely split up.
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Post by Keeper on Feb 3, 2024 18:55:01 GMT -5
Johns Creek is stacked with ECNL players on all three teams. Centennial has a couple quality ones but no where near the same depth. Not familiar with Alpharetta.
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Post by Keeper on Jan 26, 2024 15:27:24 GMT -5
Hasn’t Lakepoint always charged for parking on these events weekend? I know they did the first year or two they were open.
Just look at it as a convenience fee for not having to go deal with Braly. 🤣
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Post by Keeper on Jan 15, 2024 10:34:31 GMT -5
Las time I looked the only rule was that players couldn't play 2 ECNL/RL games in the same day. Meaning you could run an ECNL Pool of both NL and RL players and pick who plays each day. But I don't know if there's some kind of special restriction for GA or ECNL clubs with 2 GA or 2 ECNL teams from running a single pool. The way the rosters work, and I'll use ECNL as the operating example (though it's effectively the same with GA/DPL,) is that a player can be rostered on ecnlR and brought up to ECNL, but an ECNL rostered player cannot play down on an ecnlR team. So, if you were to pool in that sense, a player who is rostered on ecnl could not be dropped to ecnlR. As for the example of concorde with 2 ECNL teams, pool wouldn't work in that example because premiere is a singular ECNL team with a roster, and platinum is a singular ECNL team with a roster. ECNL players cannot be rostered on 2 ECNL teams simultaneously. So you can't move a player from premiere to platinum for one game or move a player from platinum to premium either. It would be no different that moving a premiere player to play with the GSA team for a game. All of this is assuming league play. Non ecnl Tournies, friendlies etc outside of league play are not governed by those rules If a team manager or rules savant can confirm this (for both ecnl and ga) i'd love it Wrong on one part, an ECNL player (rostered on that team) can play down with the RL team anytime as long as they follow the one game a day rule. This has been done multiple times by AFU, Gsa and CF. Especially for players coming back from injury and GKs.
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Post by Keeper on Jan 15, 2024 10:28:49 GMT -5
Players can’t move between ECNL Platinum and Premier because they’re in the same league. At some age groups ECNL Platinum coaches might convince a player or two that didn’t make their team to play on the ECRL Platinum team so they can move to ECNL Platinum if needed but that’s rare. This is actually wrong now. Players can move between Premier and Platinum now, and did so quite a bit on the Girls side.
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Post by Keeper on Jan 11, 2024 11:14:20 GMT -5
I assume you’re referring to ECNL, not ECRL. For ECNL girls, the Platinum team is their top team so the Platinum coach gets to choose his or her players before Premier. I’m guessing both teams at each age group have quality coaches so for the most part it comes down to having the best players, that’s why Platinum is always the better team. For ECRL girls, it’s a different dynamic since Platinum is based out of their Central location and Premier is based out of their Columbus location. So sometimes ECRL Premier is the better team. Interesting to see that in the 2008 Girls age group, Premier actually finished the fall in 1st place, ahead of Platinum. But that seems to be a major anomaly. In every other age group, Platinum is at or near the top of the standings, while Premier is mid-to-bottom of the table. theecnl.com/sports/2023/8/8/ECNLG_0808235831.aspxInteresting as well is that 08 ECNL Premier team is coached by GB the owner of concorde.
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Post by Keeper on Dec 7, 2023 16:23:44 GMT -5
So they went convenience to the airport over convenience to the majority of Atlanta soccer families. This will be interesting to see in the next 5-10 years.
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Post by Keeper on Nov 24, 2023 21:42:26 GMT -5
They do. Only clubs that don’t play each other are NASATophat and Concorde.
For Academy scheduling there’s literally an “Alliance” where they schedule themselves first before adding the smaller clubs.
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Post by Keeper on Nov 13, 2023 11:35:23 GMT -5
Are we really talking about rankings from some app? 🤣🤣🤣 what is this U9s from Concorde, nth and Ufa debating the best? I can’t believe people try to sell those things considering the amount of fractures in US Soccer. They can’t even get a proper ranking for college football and that’s far more sacred and funded then youth soccer.
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Post by Keeper on Nov 4, 2023 19:30:32 GMT -5
Doubtful. That’s mostly going to be private info the clubs aren’t sharing anymore.
Back in the Ga Soccer days they’d publish the number of players registered from each club but even then that wasn’t accurate as it didn’t take into account rec in house and the us club players (ECNL/npl/sccl).
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Post by Keeper on Oct 25, 2023 8:08:07 GMT -5
Ufa Norcross has two teams Premier coached by Juan Cruz and Red by Matt Holmes.
Concorde Central has six teams, Black, White, Red, Gold, Silver and Bronze. Saxon Venair and Byron Peters oversee the 14s for CF so if you’re looking for the better coaching it’s Concorde. Add in there’s more stability compared to UFAN whose top players have to leave for Forsyth.
If you want ECNL/RL Concorde is the answer. If you want a good Academy experience then maybe UFAN or even Rush out of Brook Run.
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Post by Keeper on Oct 20, 2023 21:11:06 GMT -5
We are currently looking to move to a new association. My daughter has played for a group that has became a waste of time. I have submitted tons of videos of the coaching and proof of our lack of adequate coaching. It’s no secret. Half of the year is paid, we are 2.5 months into that. Tournament fees are paid. I stopped payment on the next payment as we will not be continuing with them. We have moved to a better fitted team. The former team knows all of this but refuses to give us her player card bc of the stopped payment. What are my options? Not much except move to a club that’s not part of the same league. Ie move from SCCL to Ga Soccer. If you’re making a move from one SCCL club to another SCCL club you’ll probably have to pay the full year financial obligations. If it’s Ga Soccer then you can appeal to Ga Soccer but they’ll probably tell you the same thing, pay in full to get released. What league are you currently in?
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Post by Keeper on Oct 11, 2023 21:06:05 GMT -5
Sorry had to go get more popcorn….
Did I miss anything? 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
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Post by Keeper on Oct 5, 2023 15:57:14 GMT -5
Now imagine this scenario, 20+ fields, all in one location, near the busiest airport in the world so teams from all over the country can get there easily all with every national team coaches offices overlooking the fields. Couldn’t that be something. Now imagine that in a part of the country that’s not one of the worst to be in in June and July between all the rain, humidity and heat we get.
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Post by Keeper on Oct 5, 2023 15:55:18 GMT -5
Isn't Washington guaranteed rain? I understand San Diego, but if they're going to host playoffs where it rains then can't we just stay here? I'm all for moving it to a Round of 16 only for all age groups. May be an unpopular opinion... Obviously you know nothing about the northwest. Washington in June and July is guaranteed perfect weather. No humidity, no rain, and temps in the 70-80°s. Wish the boys would go up there over San Diego again….
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Post by Keeper on Oct 3, 2023 20:43:00 GMT -5
So the coach saying this is likely to happen is saying it because.... a) it really could happen b) he is just talking out of his butt c) it's a devious plot to give false hopes to players/parents I'm inclined to think it's a combination of b and c. I was surprised when our very levelheaded team manager said it over the weekend. If the ECNL team above you is struggling there is a chance your club will promote your coach as the new ECNL coach. Then maybe your coach will promote their current players to replace the struggling ECNL ones at tryouts.
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Post by Keeper on Oct 3, 2023 9:03:49 GMT -5
There is zero chance a current Southeast ECNL-RL team gets moved up to ECNL next year. Everyone has ECNL locally and none of the clubs are ready to take on two ECNL teams. Especially considering how much Concorde is struggling with two.
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Post by Keeper on Sept 26, 2023 6:57:30 GMT -5
Any chance you’ll divulge the insider info or give us another clue or two?? Negotiations are underway and I would not want to jeopardize that or potentially expedite things sooner because they want to control the narrative. The person is local and nope it isn't James... Is this a promotion or more of a lateral move for this new person? 🤔
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Post by Keeper on Sept 20, 2023 9:42:38 GMT -5
What refresher is more than 20-30 mins? I think the initial was maybe an hour but after that the yearly renewal is only 30 mins tops. Background checks are every two years and even as Team Managers have been covered by the club. If never heard of a parent or coach paying that out of pocket.
Safesport as a company and how they dealt with all the NWSL issues is why I do not care for them, but the idea and what they’re trying to do, even with their “woke” ideas is totally fine by me. We need more education and actual conversations instead of thinking the world is fine and shouldn’t continue to change.
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