No matter what, I do feel like the coaches should have completed their seasons with their teams. That sets a good example for the players (and parents too) and it just doesn't seem right to bail on a season. Of course, both of Chavez's DA teams were, let's say, not up to his usual standards, but that's not a good enough reason to move on 3 months early. Neither team will make the DA playoffs, but Chavez could have finished out the season while working on his new club in his spare time. He also has plenty of people helping with the new club anyway, but I guess it's also possible he and Surf mutually agreed to part ways now given the announcement of the new club. That would make some sense too, but I'm pretty close to the situation and I believe it was an unexpected resignation the morning after his HS team unexpectedly lost in the CIF SS playoffs (they were the top seed and favorite in their D3 division - great team that hammered my daughters' HS not once but twice).
Some of these SCA coaches are walking away from coaching paychecks and Friday night clinic paychecks so there is a personal cost to this in addition to the reputational hit for moving on from teams prematurely again. The last thing the SGV needs is yet another club further dividing up the player pool, but it sure makes things more interesting.
After 10 years in SGV club soccer, it seems like we are destined for a lot of mediocrity because we just can't get the top players on the same team. Chavez was able to do this with his U18-19 team last year, but his struggles this year may be a sign that a team like that won't happen again with 11 clubs squeezed into one area fighting for players, field space, and coaching talent. Even a top team like Hazell's wonderful '05 team only lasted 2 years, then he moved to ECNL when we became Surf, he has a .500 record there, and he lost some players over the HS break so it will be tough sledding moving forward. Things are just weird in the SGV...