04 Season Ending Thoughts

go99 wrote:It's all recruiting and bringing in players and for the most part parents do the recruiting for team. I will put it this way. Soccer is built on talent. Coaches don't make talent they can discover it and develop it to the best of their ability. The coaches that tells you he created the talent or can turn your kid into a player has just told you their first lie. Oh and the better the team the less they will have to recruit. Win alot, play well and parents will find their way there.

Probably one of the best posts ever on this forum. The truth is coaches don't make players great, the ALMIGHTY DOES. If a kid has natural talent, the coach matters not. If the kid is a daisy picker, Jose Mourinho cannot turn her into a player.

Good players like to play with other good players so they can win games and stomp people. The cycle will go on forever. The top teams get the better players and the bottom team fight to stay alive. It will not change much.

go99 wrote:It's all recruiting and bringing in players and for the most part parents do the recruiting for team. I will put it this way. Soccer is built on talent. Coaches don't make talent they can discover it and develop it to the best of their ability. The coaches that tells you he created the talent or can turn your kid into a player has just told you their first lie. Oh and the better the team the less they will have to recruit. Win alot, play well and parents will find their way there.

Great post. Plus bonus points for the flawless execution of the their there combo!!!

Soccer Po Boy wrote:

go99 wrote:It's all recruiting and bringing in players and for the most part parents do the recruiting for team. I will put it this way. Soccer is built on talent. Coaches don't make talent they can discover it and develop it to the best of their ability. The coaches that tells you he created the talent or can turn your kid into a player has just told you their first lie. Oh and the better the team the less they will have to recruit. Win alot, play well and parents will find their way there.

Great post. Plus bonus points for the flawless execution of the their there combo!!!

They're finding their way there now

Goaldad65 wrote:

go99 wrote:

soccrnut wrote:

go99 wrote:wow sting doesn't recruit? I remeber getting a sting business card back when my dd was in rec. But you all heard it here. No need to take your dd's out to sting. They don't take new players and rosters are already set. Once you are sting you are sting for life

wow...extreme much? you seem to be very well versed in taking comments out of context. so to clarify, in my experience, Sting does not ACTIVELY recruit in the same manner as some teams that I and friends have encountered.

Ah so they do recruit? Your contention is that they do it in a much classier way than all of the other clubs? Everybody recruits and the bigger more successful they are the more they are able to recruit. There are no right ways, no rules set up, no decorum. It is all in your mind. Clubs try to bring the best players they can into their club period.

As a Sting East Parent, none of our coaches actively recruit players from other teams. If someone is looking for a team for their daughter, they contact the Sting East Director and they put them in touch with the coaches. Our coach has actually posted on this forum looking for players, which I think is a great way to recruit when players are not knocking down your door. Now I will say I have seen Scarfone blatantly go up to teams after tournament games and recruit, but he is just a sleaze in my opinion, and can be an embarrassment to the other Sting coaches and organization.

I do agree w/ you about Scarfone, but I have encountered some other coaches from a couple of clubs that openly recruit while a player is in the middle of their game and the parents are trying to watch!
go99,
I think we are just trying to argue now...never said "classy" I will leave that quote for another poster! you may continue to defend your club to someone else...

not defending "my" club because I don't have any stock in it. Having seen the NTX soccer enviornment for a number of years, my only contention is sting is no better or honorable than any other club and Liverpool is no worse. They are all recruiting and trying to bring in the best players they can. Liverpool must recruit more than sting based on numbers. More teams and more coaches means more open spots. This honor in NTX soccer you think exist just doesn't.
BTW when I got the sting business card I didn't think this guy is awful or shady. I took it as a compliment and felt he was doing his job. And who knows, had I got the card earlier I would have been at Sting now (its a hell of alot closer)

Business Card: Happened to my kiddo a few years back. I didn't think much of it, but looked at it as a compliment as well.

go99, I am really starting to like you. For those of you who might think this another LP,LW,Illuminati conspiracy, I don't even know go99. As I read through the most active threads (for entertainment purposes only of course.....Ahem) I see shinning through your blatant homerism rays of brilliance.