Funny thing about fields. Excepting my middle school, all of my schools I went to are gone--torn down (including both of the HS buildings we used--the new one opened my senior year). But the soccer field belonging to the HS I went to that my club team used is still there, and the goals haven't moved in 50 years, at least according to Google maps satellite view.
I was trying to choose my words in the best way that I could, and I hope my slight criticism of dad coaches can be taken in the best light. Absolutely. Our community soccer organization follows that guidance from US Soccer. The tough thing is that it is one thing to have the accessible (free) curriculum, and it is another thing for rec coaches to actually implement the curriculum described here (there). Too many either are unaware of the curriculum or think they know better than the curriculum because they learned twenty years ago a different (not great) way. Pretty much the whole issue with education on a whole.. but I will stop here since that is another topic I could talk for far too long about. During fall rec season, Tim coached our middle child. He printed off the curriculum (it is in slide form), and he brought it to all practices so he could have a guide to go by. The curriculum is an entire lesson plan for the whole season. Play-practice-play. Throughout the season, he would have other coaches stop by his field to ask him questions about how to run the practice (hey how come your kids are always doing something organized with the soccer balls?). So he printed out more packets of the slides. He started handing out the curriculum slides like candy. So many good discussions in that podcast episode. I could talk and talk and talk about this topic. How we fell in love with the sport. Pick-up soccer culture. I focus on one major thing for my kids when it comes to soccer - building a lifelong love of the sport. I appreciated that discussion perhaps the most. It resonates very loudly with me. The whole joking of not coaching future Messi-s. Building a lifelong love of soccer. I know pretty much everyone you mentioned - I graduated from both Aquinas and Walsh (undergrad) - so lots of connections there. My middle brother played soccer with Damien, I played soccer with his sister, our moms grew up on the same street, etc., etc. I always thought it was going to be the club for our kids. And it most likely will be for my younger two kiddos. The club has changed a whole lot, you are right. The merger seemed to usher in the biggest changes.
I've heard that the JV-B coach at my daughter's future HS had never played or coached soccer before (just finished his second year). Luckily, another coach I know who's club team has multiple players at that school assures me my daughter will make at least JV-A as a freshman. And supposedly the JV-A coach is pretty good.
Bump? If this Cucho thing turns out to be nothing, it'll be no big deal. But if he's on borrowed time, like has been rumored in another thread, and if things go off the tracks... I guess we'll know more around 7:30 tomorrow. Hopefully someone knows what they're doing. In all honesty, it's probably somewhere in the middle on how the season turns out. Is the water on Crewville nastier than it was a few weeks ago? It definitely seems so. Is it entirely polluted beyond repair? No.
Repped for bumping this thread. Apathy is all around me, both professionally and personally. I visit here for the passion, overreaction or not.
Hey, we're Crew fans. We've been overreacting for decades. Greg Andrulis hides in the locker room? FIRE HIM. We go on a streak where we get seven points in 10 games? CUT EVERYONE! @KCbus might even write a fake "FU FO" letter. We win five games immediately after that streak? What'd we say! We're Massive! The FO sends out an email to remind people who travel two hours to get to a game that they're not attending bonus events? THEY'RE TERRIBLE FANS AND SHOULD BE GRADED F TRIPLE MINUS. Do I want him fired? No. Am I watching this situation with a curious eye? Yes. Then again, maybe Wilfried Nancy is that hard-nose coach some asked for 20 years ago. He's not a chain-smoking (we think), accented Eastern European, but he does an accent.
Only in MLS can you have a full press release about an extension with no details on the actual extension.
And I couldn’t find any about the original contract. I’d assume a three or four year original deal, and then one or two year extension.
https://www.columbuscrew.com/news/columbus-crew-wilfried-nancy-agree-to-contract-extension still no real details
This is what Brianna MacKay reported: "While exact details of Nancy's new contract remain undisclosed, Crew president and general manager Tim Bezbatchenko said the coach's contract coming into the season still had "multiple years" remaining on it." So, at an absolute minimum, I think it's safe to assume we have him under contract for at least three for more years. At least two more years remaining on his contract at the start of this season, plus at least one year in the extension.
Cmon man CCC is all that matters rn , just say less because you been really quiet since we started winning.
Freddie Shero used to do stuff like that (HoF NHL coach)--but he made the mistake of trying to rescue the Rangers after willing 2 cups with the flyers. He said it kept the players loose and on their toes.
A period that includes winning the MLS Cup and making it to the CCC semi-finals....although, maybe we are just feeding the troll with this bright and sunny synopsis?