ALERT!! Be Advised about this Control Freak Jacob Tudela Coach!

You all can keep ranting away about useless stuff and to each his own.. but at the end of the day the bottom line is for me personally I'm not paying money for control freak political agendas and other bullshit.
 
This thread is disgusting and I can’t believe it hasn’t been taken down yet.

I’m a parent on the TFC Club, which we started over a year ago after a discouraging experience with our previous club that included practicing on fields without goals, practicing in the dark, practicing on fields with hard concrete turf that was going to take out someone’s knee if we didn’t get off it, having games get cancelled because of “field availability” (translation: the boys needed it), and being treated like second class citizens because that particular club funneled its resources/attention/money to the boys teams (and yes, I’m leaving out the shadier stuff). When we launched the club, we had to deal with other clubs trying to block us and even calling in favors to board members to prevent us from joining CalSouth. What a country... if you’re spending your time trying to undermine the chance of girls 12 and under to play soccer, you need to re-evaluate things. But that’s what was happening and thankfully we fended that off, too.

One year later we have a thriving club with a caring coach and active parents who bought in to everything we’re doing. The culture is a big part of what we’re trying to build and it only takes a couple of parents to undermine it -you know, like any parent who seems irrational before they’ve even joined the team, blows it for their kid, then proves their character by posting some slander on a board like this one. (And you wonder why we didn’t want him involved with our club.) It certainly didn’t warrant an “alert” thread - which is something that should be reserved for coaches who threaten kids or parents, abuse them, steal money or break the rules. Shame on that guy.

Then another poster comes in and posts erroneous information about our scholarship kids, our Indiana camp and other stuff to undermine our club for this small community for whatever reason. I won’t even dignify that stuff other to say that anyone who spends time, anonymously, trashing someone else’s club with facts that they KNOW are wrong is obviously battling their own demons (or has an agenda, or both). Thank God this board doesn’t have any real reach, but still, I’m dumbfounded that this stuff just gets to stay on this board when it was designed to be recklessly damaging ... what’s the point of even having moderators?

Thanks to everyone who stuck up for us. Our goal from Day One was to build an all-girls club that drew kids from the Hollywood area, the valley and downtown LA. Now we have kids who drive an hour or more just to play with us and train with us. It’s a good thing, not a bad thing. We have a great coach who cares about his kids and feels strongly that he could build a team around families who can pay and families who can’t. It worked. It’s actually an awesome story, and all of our teams play with a distinct possession/attack style that’s different from all the kickball crap that dominates SoCal soccer and plagues US soccer as a whole. I’m not saying it’s better, just saying that it stands out in its own way.

This post was not designed to promote our club - we have more than enough kids now. We’re fine. But watching a couple of losers slander what we’re doing, under the cloak of anonymity, is absolutely reprehensible. You should take the thread down. Everyone on this board pretends to care about soccer - this is wrong, period, end of story, and almost all of you know it. Take the thread down.
 
TFCdad said:
This thread is disgusting and I can’t believe it hasn’t been taken down yet.

I’m a parent on the TFC Club, which we started over a year ago after a discouraging experience with our previous club that included practicing on fields without goals, practicing in the dark, practicing on fields with hard concrete turf that was going to take out someone’s knee if we didn’t get off it, having games get cancelled because of “field availability” (translation: the boys needed it), and being treated like second class citizens because that particular club funneled its resources/attention/money to the boys teams (and yes, I’m leaving out the shadier stuff). When we launched the club, we had to deal with other clubs trying to block us and even calling in favors to board members to prevent us from joining CalSouth. What a country... if you’re spending your time trying to undermine the chance of girls 12 and under to play soccer, you need to re-evaluate things. But that’s what was happening and thankfully we fended that off, too.

One year later we have a thriving club with a caring coach and active parents who bought in to everything we’re doing. The culture is a big part of what we’re trying to build and it only takes a couple of parents to undermine it -you know, like any parent who seems irrational before they’ve even joined the team, blows it for their kid, then proves their character by posting some slander on a board like this one. (And you wonder why we didn’t want him involved with our club.) It certainly didn’t warrant an “alert” thread - which is something that should be reserved for coaches who threaten kids or parents, abuse them, steal money or break the rules. Shame on that guy.

Then another poster comes in and posts erroneous information about our scholarship kids, our Indiana camp and other stuff to undermine our club for this small community for whatever reason. I won’t even dignify that stuff other to say that anyone who spends time, anonymously, trashing someone else’s club with facts that they KNOW are wrong is obviously battling their own demons (or has an agenda, or both). Thank God this board doesn’t have any real reach, but still, I’m dumbfounded that this stuff just gets to stay on this board when it was designed to be recklessly damaging ... what’s the point of even having moderators?

Thanks to everyone who stuck up for us. Our goal from Day One was to build an all-girls club that drew kids from the Hollywood area, the valley and downtown LA. Now we have kids who drive an hour or more just to play with us and train with us. It’s a good thing, not a bad thing. We have a great coach who cares about his kids and feels strongly that he could build a team around families who can pay and families who can’t. It worked. It’s actually an awesome story, and all of our teams play with a distinct possession/attack style that’s different from all the kickball crap that dominates SoCal soccer and plagues US soccer as a whole. I’m not saying it’s better, just saying that it stands out in its own way.

This post was not designed to promote our club - we have more than enough kids now. We’re fine. But watching a couple of losers slander what we’re doing, under the cloak of anonymity, is absolutely reprehensible. You should take the thread down. Everyone on this board pretends to care about soccer - this is wrong, period, end of story, and almost all of you know it. Take the thread down.
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I think the thread should stay up. Some people haven't had a chance to give this guy a smackdown yet. I'll let you in on a secret. When someone joins the forum then proceeds to rant about whatever their beef is on their first post, the people that have been part of this for many, many years laugh. They see right through it and proceed to rip them an a$$. Just like what happened to this individual. Although someone from the club got on and eloquently defended the club, it wasn't necessary. Everyone already saw through this guy. Most realized he's mad because his kid got cut or the club didn't want to do it his way.
It looks like you are new too. Yes, you are peeved and this parent (there is one at every club) but you don't need to rant either. I remember when the club advertised on here last year. Every post I saw was positive and wished them well. Personally I think its awesome they have a club in the area to cater to girls. Good luck to the club I hope it gets stronger every year
 
KJR said:
Man, you people are killing my weekend.

We have no problem with families who can afford the full fees -- and yes, we have a lot who are comfortably able to do so. They're great families with great kids. We could make a lot more money if we just pulled from those neighborhoods, if we didn't reach out to underserved communities and bring in girls who are too often left behind by the club system. But those are also great families with great kids.

We want them all. We want to make our playing field as level as we can. It puts a bigger financial burden on us as a club, but it's what we're about, and as the club President I'll get on a soapbox any day (or a Sunday night) to defend our project.

'Night, everyone!
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You have got to be fricking kidding me.
 
Nice post. You should consider a career in media.

TFCdad said:
This thread is disgusting and I can’t believe it hasn’t been taken down yet.

I’m a parent on the TFC Club, which we started over a year ago after a discouraging experience with our previous club that included practicing on fields without goals, practicing in the dark, practicing on fields with hard concrete turf that was going to take out someone’s knee if we didn’t get off it, having games get cancelled because of “field availability” (translation: the boys needed it), and being treated like second class citizens because that particular club funneled its resources/attention/money to the boys teams (and yes, I’m leaving out the shadier stuff). When we launched the club, we had to deal with other clubs trying to block us and even calling in favors to board members to prevent us from joining CalSouth. What a country... if you’re spending your time trying to undermine the chance of girls 12 and under to play soccer, you need to re-evaluate things. But that’s what was happening and thankfully we fended that off, too.

One year later we have a thriving club with a caring coach and active parents who bought in to everything we’re doing. The culture is a big part of what we’re trying to build and it only takes a couple of parents to undermine it -you know, like any parent who seems irrational before they’ve even joined the team, blows it for their kid, then proves their character by posting some slander on a board like this one. (And you wonder why we didn’t want him involved with our club.) It certainly didn’t warrant an “alert” thread - which is something that should be reserved for coaches who threaten kids or parents, abuse them, steal money or break the rules. Shame on that guy.

Then another poster comes in and posts erroneous information about our scholarship kids, our Indiana camp and other stuff to undermine our club for this small community for whatever reason. I won’t even dignify that stuff other to say that anyone who spends time, anonymously, trashing someone else’s club with facts that they KNOW are wrong is obviously battling their own demons (or has an agenda, or both). Thank God this board doesn’t have any real reach, but still, I’m dumbfounded that this stuff just gets to stay on this board when it was designed to be recklessly damaging ... what’s the point of even having moderators?

Thanks to everyone who stuck up for us. Our goal from Day One was to build an all-girls club that drew kids from the Hollywood area, the valley and downtown LA. Now we have kids who drive an hour or more just to play with us and train with us. It’s a good thing, not a bad thing. We have a great coach who cares about his kids and feels strongly that he could build a team around families who can pay and families who can’t. It worked. It’s actually an awesome story, and all of our teams play with a distinct possession/attack style that’s different from all the kickball crap that dominates SoCal soccer and plagues US soccer as a whole. I’m not saying it’s better, just saying that it stands out in its own way.

This post was not designed to promote our club - we have more than enough kids now. We’re fine. But watching a couple of losers slander what we’re doing, under the cloak of anonymity, is absolutely reprehensible. You should take the thread down. Everyone on this board pretends to care about soccer - this is wrong, period, end of story, and almost all of you know it. Take the thread down.
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