Sporting California! What are they doing?

ColdPizza said:
Word on the street is that Jenny has been suspended. Four G12 RL girls have left the team...maybe more on the horizon.
I am not sure other teams are affected, but a whirlwind is brewing.
I am NOT surprised...
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sounds like you have first hand knowledge of what's transpiring? thats a hefty portion of a team all at once
 
ColdPizza said:
Word on the street is that Jenny has been suspended. Four G12 RL girls have left the team...maybe more on the horizon.
I am not sure other teams are affected, but a whirlwind is brewing.
I am NOT surprised...
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Any knowledge on why the suspension, how long the suspension and reason girls are leaving?
 
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.
 
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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I will speak on Legends due to having friends on their NL teams. (with the reverse problem). A coach told his team that the RL players will be playing instead of the actual rostered NL players because they are better. And that if the NL player is not rostered for game day, they can go help the RL team or the RL2 team.
 
ScrParentSocal said:
I will speak on Legends due to having friends on their NL teams. (with the reverse problem). A coach told his team that the RL players will be playing instead of the actual rostered NL players because they are better. And that if the NL player is not rostered for game day, they can go help the RL team or the RL2 team.
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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.
 
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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It's on the boys side too with MLS Next. Only core players are exclusive to MLS Next. Futures players are allowed to play a certain number of games in MLS Next and otherwise with the second team. Reserve players can guest up on the MLS Next side but otherwise (at least in the ideal) are usually suppose to play with the second team (but the issue is the double practices). They are supposed to be interlocking, which is why sometimes the teams in second tier with MLS Next Teams over them can fluctuate in performance. Also a reason why the east coast clubs broke out of EA (to give more flexibility in their ability to interlock).

The stupid parts of this are "must win" (there's no such thing...maybe make a case for national championship rounds)...and the RL kids playing up on the NL (that means the coaches either made mistakes in placement, or worse, sent some weaker players down to RL in order to make that team competitive and filled the bench with fillers).
 
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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ask Blues;)
 
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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Yep. NL parents would hate it, while the RL parents in question not so much. Especially if the kid took the RL spot since they were promised they could guest NL games from time to time.
 
Willy Falcon said:
Is the Blues/Sporting merger true? Lots of dots are connecting in the background,
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no idea, what would actually merge though? Blues would take on all those teams and then they would be blues teams so blues would have double spots at all age groups? Or it would be like Legends/Sharks and Sporting would call themselves Blues CA or something?
 
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.
 
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
 
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