Mike C

Grasshopper you are right I have no clue what is going on. My daughter wasn’t one of the girls that was told she made the team then last minute cut. Your right I wasn’t one of the parents that heard the abuse first hand Your right I am not one of the parents that wants a tough coach. In my daughter’s 9 years of high level club soccer she has had the gambit of coaches. She has had soft coaches and really hard ones but in each case she would run through a wall for them. From day 1 she met Mike she was cautious. Also keep in mind it is not just parents that have issues with him. I have heard some Tophat coaches with negative comments as well. Just glad that my daughter that sucks will be playing for a top ten D2 school next year

Holy shizat, someone needs to take their meds.

Your assumptions are comical

 fanatic21 and so are your posts... 

mightydawg , LOL, your statement, " weight has little to do with being a successful soccer player," is that your personal opinion? Because I can share at least 10 articles stating that weight in fact does play a part in the performance of a player in a soccer game. 

As far as the use of psychologists used in the game is completely irrelevant to the point. Coach Mike C is a soccer coach - not a psychologist. If you believe soccer training should be supplemented by a sports psychologist - that is a duty the parents or club should provide and the responsibility should not be shifted to the coach to provide psychologist services in the 4-6 week he is spending with the players. The job of a coach is to work on skills, strategy, tactics, and arguably fitness. "Personal attacks" is a vague termed interpreted differently depending on how sensitive you are. What you consider personal attacks such as talking about weight - it's really not a personal attack if you consider the context. 

We cannot be that oblivious (I would say dumb but you will probably consider that a personal attack) to believe that an unfit player will perform the same on the field as a player who prioritizes nutrition, cardio, and skills. Please don't be delusional guys. Like I said - there are a million other outlets for kids to participate where weight doesn't matter - soccer is not one of them. 

All opinions are welcome....a lot of parents love to throw stones while living in a glass house...so let's talk about us.

WHO HOLDS US - SOCCER PARENTS - ACCOUNTABLE?

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Mike sorry grasshopper. I guess you don’t understand sarcasm. I was there for all of that as well as my daughter. Yes my daughter is not playing at a top 10 D1 school. I am sure if we stayed with you (sorry grasshopper) we would be playing at a top 10. So I guess Mike was right she does suck if she could only get a D2 scholarship

rifle my bad! I will make sure to use the brackets. My name isn’t Mike (I am actually a woman) but I am glad we are finding some common ground.

oraclesfriend - your points are well-taken and I would agree with most of it. Except that this bullying, harassment, and defamation always happens when ONE parent is held accountable and doesn’t like it. They run off to tell on the coach, start a defamation campaign, and always end up on this blog trashing folks. I agree coaches should be held accountable but so should parents. I agree bullying kids is not okay - but neither is bullying coaches and getting them fired just because you don’t like something they said. A lot of parents are here talking about abuse - but aren’t their comments on this blog abusive and defamatory in nature? Should other parents sit by on the sidelines and not say anything? The fact that Directors and clubs don’t get involved in this drama because they are AFRAID of being bashed my parents should tell you everything you need to know. Are we a mob or soccer parents?


Some soccer parents are toxic and as a soccer parent, I’ve had it with the bs.

Ink N A Z I?! 🤣😜

As a fellow woman in a male dominated field I fist bump you for doing that and kicking ass at it. Obviously you are not a snowflake. Neither am I. But as a woman in a healthcare field I do take issue with adults being mean to children. I also played sports (sometimes even on boys teams and kicking ass there too) and am familiar with the old school way of doing things. Like many old school things berating, embarrassing and insulting comments towards athletes (elite and not elite) need to go away.

The thing about the forum is that it is a place to ask questions, get information and opine about clubs/leagues/refs and so on. This particular thread was started once before by someone asking about this coach. It got some positive and some negative comments about the coach when it began. It was not begun by a disgruntled parent. Several of the initial negative comments were by people who were not on the current team that Mike got released from. In fact this was well before the season.

A soccer sideline is an emotional place. Perhaps the best thing for Mike would be some feedback on what comments he made that offended people. He might learn to curb what he says and yet still hold people accountable. There are ways to do that without insulting, embarrassing and humiliating teen girls. I have always been able to let a lot roll off of me but that does not mean that I should have to subjected to that. Much of what I was subjected to in the past would now 100% be considered sexual harassment. It never got under my skin, but I stand by the rights of others to complain about that and get it changed. This is no different IMO.

I posted about some actual situations that occurred and asked if they were ok.  Some people never addressed the situations and went straight to making assumptions about the poster.  So let me give you some info about my snowflake self and my snowflake daughter. And no I don't care if some people figure out who we are.  I took a while to think about replying to these comments. I don't want to seem self-aggrandizing or to be bragging on my kid.

I coached high school football with some great coaches.  The Head Coach was just inducted into the Georgia Coaches Hall of Fame.  While I was there we won 2 state titles and had dozens of kids to go play college football (many at SEC schools).  They won a lot more without me.

I took over a girls' soccer team that had never won more than 6 games.  Five years later we had won 3 region titles and made it to the final four in the play-offs (with only 2 girls that played athena II). 

I now run a junior wrestling program for one of the most successful coaches in GHSA history.  Between softball, soccer, and wrestling he has won I believe 11 state titles. The coaches on the junior program have produced over 150 state champs and placers.

Somewhere in this thread someone was talking about about what it took to be ELITE.  I have been around ELITE. I have seen some of the best in the history of this state.  They were always about developing and encouraging.  Of course they were all demanding and held athletes accountable.  But they never went after players personally or said things derogatory about there personalities.  There is a huge difference between criticizing the way a player does something and criticizing the player.  These are a couple of examples.

    If someone is playing poorly, take them out.  Tell them why they were taken out and what they should of done.  Don't tell them they suck and tell     them to just go sit on the bench. 

    Don't talk poorly about players where other players can hear.  Talk about your good players and what makes them successful. 

If you are coaching kids 14 and under and they are wanting to quit a sport, I think you are doing a terrible job.  The youth ages are about development and growth as players.  It is not the time to weed out the "snowflakes" or "weak" kids.  You never know what someone is going to develop into until after puberty.  

Now about that snowflake daughter.  She is keeper.  At her request and with doctor's permission, she has played in goal at U12 with a big toe broken in two places.  At U14 she she fractured a thumb in two places.  She played in a tournament the next weekend with a hard cast over that thumb, wrist, and forearm.  Two weeks later she talked the doctor into letting her play in a big game with just a splint, even though the thumb was not completely healed.  She has won the state wrestling tournament five times.  She has been to USA Nationals wrestling tournament twice and finished 5th and 2nd.  She is playing for Coach Rivah for the third time.  I haven't seen a soccer coach that is more demanding and expects more out his players (and he develops them without having anyone quit).  She is some kind of snowflake!

So go ahead and type you keyboard warrior.  Put down kids for "only" earning a Div II. scholarship.  

Some of us do have the experience and knowledge of what it takes to be ELITE.  Some of you only think you do.