There will be some serious culture shock for many Surf parents. To ease the pain, some words of wisdom:
1. Going forward, anticipate that no game will ever be played to win again, and game decisions will be based on long term development no matter how important you think the game is. Get used to playing out of the back no matter how bad they are at it, no matter how many times it results in turnovers, ridiculously easy goals and losses. They’ll either figure it out or will find out there is more to life than soccer. If the latter, hopefully it happened by age 12 instead of 15.
2. I dare you to get into a pissing match with him or bother him over things that your kid should be discussing with him directly. In fact, I strongly encourage you to throw your weight around and let him know how you know people and are the customer so he needs to listen to you. I also wish you the best at your kid’s next club.
3. Congrats if he believes your kid is a good fit for a particular college, your kid is probably 80% of their way to an offer as at least a recruited walk-on. Don’t be like
@crush and f**k it up.