Coach:
Your post helps me see what I think is the central "problem" with SC soccer—including the play, the coaching, the refs, and the fans/parents:
The disparity in soccer experience and knowledge. When refs are weakest (when coaches are weakest, when players are weakest, when fans/parents are weakest) is when they come to ref'ing with little to no soccer experience/knowledge.
The problem in SC is we NEED new people/players to come to HS soccer, thus we will have this disparity. Sigh. . .
Since we are in the girls forum—don't we all cringe at the girls matches when parents/fans scream EVERY time a player falls or two players touch. . .cheer when the ref calls EVERY fall and touch. . .making no distinction between fair play/contact and dangerous/unfair play/contact. . .those are the worst HS girls matches to endure. . .takes a quality ref to keep this from ruining a match in HS.
