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Message: [QUOTE="Chuck, post: 2904325, member: 1646"] I became "that coach" yesterday. Not proud, but sounding it out here. I've explained our club / team in the past. U13 girls at an A flight regional league. We outpunch our weight class a bit because of a few really good players that focus on lacrosse. I'm the assistant coach, but the head coach missed our Sunday game so it was me and our trainer. We played a big Academy team that has an MLS affiliation, so I'm still not sure why they are in our league, but so be it. They're coach is a complete . During our first game last year the ref missed an obvious call and our coach yelled at the ref a bit. The coach yelled at our coach that "we're teaching our kids the right way to play, not trying to win a game." Meanwhile, he's all over the girls and ref himself. This year, in our first game, one of our girls took out one of theirs near (outside) the box. It was shoulder to shoulder, but a foul. He's screaming at the ref (while our girl is crying) that she's a dirty player and should get a red card. He actually said, "I was a professional, I know a dirty play, and you need to make that call... I played for a living." We lost 2-1 after taking out our primary goalie who likes to play in the field. Aargh. So I already hated this guy. Yesterday, we were dominating again, but it was 0-0 (we have scoring issues). He's yelling at his girls that they need to play with energy. He tells his girls on the bench that "when you are playing in a boring game like this that you don't care about, that's where you need to focus." A couple of our girls heard that. Clear dig on our team. So now I'm mad. Before the game, he didn't set up the goals (at their field), and he never gave the refs a second game ball. The ball goes out of bounds 40 yards and I'm telling my player not to go running for it. I ask the guy four times where the second game ball is, he refuses to look up. That's when I lost it a bit and went off on him about being his responsibility to prepare for the game and to get my player a damn ball (thankfully no actual cursing). He then runs over to my side with a ball and starts taunting me about wanting a ball. The game proceeded and we won 2-0. The other team's parents were yelling to the girls that they would "pay $50 for anyone that scores a goal!" After the game the guy refused to shake my hand in the line. Unbelievable. So that was a long post, and I wish I hadn't yelled at the guy, but if anyone has a 2006 daughter in Northern NJ or Rockland NY, I'd be happy to share the club to stay away from. I believe some of their other coaches are solid. [/QUOTE]

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