Sporting California! What are they doing?

diamondcoach said:
Can’t speak to the current issues with Sporting, but will say that both of my girls played for them at one point. Oldest chose to leave (after 4 years with the club) because she wanted a fresh voice from a coaching standpoint, and wanted to be surrounded by better players. Her experience with Sporting was mostly positive as the only real frustration was simply losing to better teams.

My youngest, who is still in the NL, played a year + for Sporting. Her coach was nothing short of an ass. Loved the girls when they won, berated them if they lost. Honestly, someone who, in opinion, should not be coaching. Got to the point where she didn’t even start… And this was on a mediocre/bad team.

We left and went to a better club. Where she immediately started, they’ve made the national finals two years in a row, and she was named first team all conference. Amazing the difference a better coach/club can make.
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It's weird how a different coach or club can completely change a players performance.

It's also weird how teams that lose all the time often have ridiculous politics going on reguarding who plays. At some point you need to step back and question why there's so much drama when you're almost guaranteed to lose.
 
Carlsbad7 said:
Technically this is how ECNL and ECRL is designed to work since both teams players are in the same player pool. Parents hate this kind of action and fight agains
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Carlsbad7 said:
It's weird how a different coach or club can completely change a players performance.

It's also weird how teams that lose all the time often have ridiculous politics going on reguarding who plays. At some point you need to step back and question why there's so much drama when you're almost guaranteed to lose.
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I agree with this. Politics have affected our team and parents are constantly in the coach's ear/head so he plays specific players despite knowing the combinations are not working. We are still locked in until June but you can see what players and parents are unhappy.
 
ScrParentSocal said:
I agree with this. Politics have affected our team and parents are constantly in the coach's ear/head so he plays specific players despite knowing the combinations are not working. We are still locked in until June but you can see what players and parents are unhappy.
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Sounds like your coach is more afraid of players leaving than winning games. Unfortunately if you don't win players will leave even if they're getting minutes. So all the coach is doing is delaying the inevitable.
 
BLN World said:
Not sure what is going on with Coach Jenny but wished I had listened to my gut when wanting to leave this joke of a club Sporting after the challenge game nonsense. Several of my daughter's teammates have been told that they will not be rostering in their RL game this weekend since it's a "must win" game against SD Surf. Although there's less than 17 girls on the RL roster, the coach is planning to bring down a bunch of NL players for this "must win" game thereby displacing the RL players. Curious as to other clubs - now that NL plays mainly on Saturdays and RL plays on Sundays, is this happening with other clubs too? NL players playing for the RL team just for the win? I guess it's allowed under the ECNL rules but seems fishy and wrong. Not to mention their NL team at this age group is in dead last so not sure how much help these players will be anyway against a much superior club.
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Because Sporting (in true Sporting fashion) has no chance of winning and wants the score to be say a respectable, say only 4-0 or 5-0 lopsided loss...
 
Jenny has been pulled from coaching her ECRL/NL teams indefinitely. She allowed one of her ECRL teams to use a goalie without a player card. Some coaches have been fired, and some are planning to leave. The G12 ECRL team has lost 6 girls and maybe more in the next week. She likes to borrow players instead of growing her own. What a mess. I feel for the parents and kids who fell for her sales pitch.
 
ColdPizza said:
Jenny has been pulled from coaching her ECRL/NL teams indefinitely. She allowed one of her ECRL teams to use a goalie without a player card. Some coaches have been fired, and some are planning to leave. The G12 ECRL team has lost 6 girls and maybe more in the next week. She likes to borrow players instead of growing her own. What a mess. I feel for the parents and kids who fell for her sales pitch.
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Thats the problem when you try and recruit a team to the temecula area with the premise of being the only RL club available in the area, that has no business playing in that division. Was doomed from the start
 
ColdPizza said:
Jenny has been pulled from coaching her ECRL/NL teams indefinitely. She allowed one of her ECRL teams to use a goalie without a player card. Some coaches have been fired, and some are planning to leave. The G12 ECRL team has lost 6 girls and maybe more in the next week. She likes to borrow players instead of growing her own. What a mess. I feel for the parents and kids who fell for her sales pitch.
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Did the team fall apart?
 
ColdPizza said:
Not entirely. They will make sure to allow the better players to play up and keep them. They have already tried that with the better girls that left - didn't work. What a mess.
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They also have a ton of guest players helping them from other existing Sporting teams.
But if coaches have left Sporting CA South, who will coach the teams Jenny had...
 
nomo said:
Are you referring to all of jenny‘s south RL teams or specifically for her 12 RL‘s?
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This comment was in response to the coaches leaving.

But back to my previous comment: Jenny has been pulled from coaching her ECRL/NL/RL2 teams indefinitely.

The G12 ECRL team has lost 6 girls so far.

I just heard she will be suspended for 3 games in SoCal for using illegal G15 players last week. AYE AYE AYE the house of cards is falling.
 
BLN World said:
Not sure what is going on with Coach Jenny but wished I had listened to my gut when wanting to leave this joke of a club Sporting after the challenge game nonsense. Several of my daughter's teammates have been told that they will not be rostering in their RL game this weekend since it's a "must win" game against SD Surf. Although there's less than 17 girls on the RL roster, the coach is planning to bring down a bunch of NL players for this "must win" game thereby displacing the RL players. Curious as to other clubs - now that NL plays mainly on Saturdays and RL plays on Sundays, is this happening with other clubs too? NL players playing for the RL team just for the win? I guess it's allowed under the ECNL rules but seems fishy and wrong. Not to mention their NL team at this age group is in dead last so not sure how much help these players will be anyway against a much superior club.
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Certain clubs are notorious for playing NL players on the RL teams, while other clubs avoid it, even to the point of playing with no subs. Sporting USA, Legends, and Slammers will usually have NL players on the roster during league games; and they absolutely stack the RL teams with NL players during the playoff games, and other events.
 
And there are crappy MLS N teams who play a significant portion of their roster on their club's NPL team, flouting all MLS rules because NorCal lets them do so.
 
Carlsbad7 said:
Technically this is how ECNL and ECRL is designed to work since both teams players are in the same player pool. Parents hate this kind of action and fight against it.
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Wish more clubs operated this way. It is the best method for player development, and the strongest teams.
 
Code said:
Certain clubs are notorious for playing NL players on the RL teams, while other clubs avoid it, even to the point of playing with no subs. Sporting USA, Legends, and Slammers will usually have NL players on the roster during league games; and they absolutely stack the RL teams with NL players during the playoff games, and other events.
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This is becoming the norm. Also all you do now is roster the NL player on the RL roster.
 
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