I have a question to those posters who feel Mike was a good coach and all the problems were created by SCUMP.
Why won't you address the issues that have been raised with the player's behavior on the field? Anyone who saw this team play saw first hand the nastiness and lack of sportsmanship by some of those girls.
How in the world can you say that those girls did not cause disfunction on the team? I mean really, what coach or parent or player would say that one teammate calling another a b--ch, and using the F-word throughout the game did not contribute to the problems on that team.
RMJ - how about you? You seem to be a parent on that team. Are you saying that when members of that team called their teammates names, blamed losses on them and were generally nasty, it helped build the team up??? Really???
That group is like a pack of wolves and they get taken from club to club to club to club. The coach is who let it get this bad. The coach should have stood up to the parents YEARS ago and said, "You're child is a talented soccer player, but needs to learn how to play on a team."
I know some of these girls say Mike is getting them into UNC or other big name programs. I've never seen a UNC game, but I'm sure some of you have. How many times do UNC players call each other B***ches on the field. Does Dorrance turn a blind eye to f-bombs being dropped all over the field?
I can say this, in 10 years, let's all agree to come back to this message board and give updates on where these girls are in their lives. And before anyone says "Let's remember these are young girls we are talking about," let's also remember these young girls are the ones who are on the field, during games, using profanity and verbally abusing their teammates.
That is the real reason they can't find a club to play at. That core group, with Mike at the helm, is out of control. I think he should be embarrassed with how they act on the field.
