As of Friday my company is "allowing me to explore other career opportunities". Maybe I should see if DCU would hire me to develops some youths.
I hope it works out for United's youth programs. It seems they had at least a few players in the program (at least one of whom is in the USSF player pool) with some promise. It would be a shame if that was lost because a couple coaches couldn't manage to control their emotions at the critical moment (if that's the case here)...
1) Being a great player doesn't necessarily mean being a great coach - A great player might make a great mentor or player advisor, but not necessarily everything that goes into being a coach 2) Being a good and especially a great coach at one level doesn't necessarily mean being a great coach at ALL levels of the game (kids, pre-teen, teens, rec, select, developmental, professional level in the US, professional level in the big leagues, national in the US, national in the big countries, etc, etc, etc) 3) Being a good and especially great coach doesn't necessarily mean being a great administrator of a coaching program since you're now dealing with managing coaches, who may or may not be appropriate for the level or type of your program, and who you may or may not have selected
I hope things are being blown out of proportion. He seemed like a pretty cool headed and likable individual. Either way, it does not look good.
What 'things'? Everyone creates these scenarios in their head then proceeds from there. But all our scenarios are probably completely off.
Going purely on the quote above ("It was bizarre"), I am thinking that he turned into a green ogre, ripped the head off an opposing player, swallowed the head whole, and then proceeded to referee the match wearing only a diablo mask and speedos, issuing yellow cards for every player who played the ball out of bounds and red cards to anyone who dared question his authority - including the actual referee. In all seriousness, though, the Richie Burke aside surprised me - he always struck me as a great coach. I have refereed a lot of games that he was coaching and his teams always seem to develop well under him. Of course, that was several years ago. Before the green ogre incident.
Kids now a days can be some serious A-holes in this country, and dont like to listen to authority. Maybe Maes' lost his cool and just couldnt take it anymore? I know, i used to see these kind of kids all my life as i was one just like back in the late 90s.
who knows. only the people there know what happened, and then we don't know the why's. Somewhere it will turn up for us.
Haha. I want to coach U13 boys sooner or later, see what i can do, but because of how boys act at that age it makes me hesitant, and with how parents can be crazy too!
parents - don't worry. start right from the first practice. tell them STFU (nicer than that). seriously, tell them to keep there mouths shut, I usually told them that I get to yell at there kids for 4 hours a week, they can yell the rest of the time. then, i wouldn't yell at the kids (because they really don't need another person yelling at them). instead, i'd set out my expectations - do your best (in my opinion), have fun, listen when I speak. Parents do suck, but I still love my kids. it's fun to see my kids play in high school, college, travel (though they never know that I'm watching them)! where is that BDT?
Why is it that no one who posts here seems to have the slightest idea what happened? Some kind of volcanic eruption in the presence of several score soccer people can't be kept totally secret, can it? Well, can it?
http://www.examiner.com/blogs-116-thepitch~y2008m7d29-Maessner-checks-in Maessner on vacation in NE and taking some time off, but "definitely coming back" for next season
This reminds me of my U-5 coach who decided that he could coach us all the way through high school, he was so "dedicated" to all of us that he organized an ouster of our high school coaching staff just so he could see us through. Bless his heart, my last season in high school we went 6-12 because the guy just didn't know how to coach us past age 13! Oh and and by DCUntd when you say NE around here you might want to clarify that it's Nebraska and not New England....
DOH! And I think I may have messed up my verb tense, too. I think he's back now. Anyway... back when I coached I loved it. But back when I reffed, the parents were much much worse than as a coach. I agree with the observation that it is easy to set the tone early with the parents, and then you have a sort of corporate culture in place for new parents to adapt to. As a ref, I have had to throw the parents out of games. That was fun. My favorite incident was loudly instructing the coach that if he couldn't control the outbursts of his parents I would only let the game continue without spectators. He loudly agreed and then did nothing. 5 minutes later I threw all the parents out. After the game I called the league to report the incident and they patiently listened to me before saying "Yeah we have had problems with that team all season, that's why we assigned it to you. We figured if you had a problem with them, too, that we would kick them out of the league." And they did. The worst part was, it was a teenage girls game, and there were girls literally crying that their parents couldn't watch them play. I felt sort of badly about that. But there was a group of parents who were very loudly using inappropriate language and interfering with the game. (Insert joke here about your least favorite fan group)
I thought NE was the part of DC that included Deanwood, Trinidad & Brookland. It seemed like a strange place for Maessner to take a vacation.
Do people really vacation in Nebraska? I thought that was a state you drove through on your way to a vacation somewhere else.
He can make great money (read: better than DCU money) husking corn there this time of year. It's a workation.
I'm from Nebraska and it's not a bad place to visit. Lots of stuff to do and see, especially if you're into history.