SoccerSpoiler
SILVER ELITE
Experience is the only way wisdom comes. The old days of recruiting (stealing) other teams top players can only work with a dad who can be GM and then would do all the work for you as coach. It's a gift. I was the GM in Temecula for 1 year back in the day and got a lot of hate because of splitting up the Legends South team and instead took our fire power up North. I was used as a pawn and never did it again. Car pooling was the key to pulling this off but it sure pissed off the locals and I wish I wasn't used like that. It was wrong and one of the few mistakes I made in youth soccer....lol. When she got to blues and Tad, I learned how insane and competitive the parents were and I decided to go solo and just focus on my baby goat and make sure she makes no excuse and works hard. Tad had no GM. He and Rob worked the fields and did recruiting the right way, moo. My dd worked hard and the team won all the time. The problem with this old GM model for coach is if coach pisses off his GM. GM Father can now take all the top goats, say bad things about the former coach (club) and preach and sell how amazing the new coach, club are and how "green" the greener pasture is. It's crazy.....
This is very true about the GM father and this definitely has happened before. I think @TeamDadJokes can explain how a GM Father can take most players and move them to another team. He mentioned a similar scenario in the past. I think this also happened as well with that team that is now west coast 2010 team. GM father took them all to West Coast from coach Filipovic. I remember reading a story in the past. If AR did not recruit most of these players and the GM father did then it can definitely make or break a team if the situation is not resolved and worked out.