EnsworthSoccer

We've never sought to sandbag. If anything, the opposite.

This is crazy. http://www.lebanondemocrat.com/Soccer/2017/08/22/MJCA-coach-pulls-team-from-field-with-storm-approaching.html

What is CC's enrollment? I am under the impression that we are the smallest of the 14 D2-AA schools with 460 students (about 225 female). I could be wrong.

That Sean Fraser link is one of the better pieces about coaching philosophy that I have read.

The list is pretty small, except for in D1 AAA, where it is relatively large. In D2-AA, the smallest classification by number of schools, we get 15 from 11 schools. Both D1 AA/A and D2-A each get 15. In my opinion, that is a reasonable number. I believe that 45 girls from D1 AAA make all-state. I don't know if that is too many or not, but it is 3x the number of any other classification. By comparison, in North Carolina's public 4A classification (the largest in the state, with probably a much larger overall number of students enrolled than are in TN's D1 AAA) only 31 boys made all-state this fall. I am not a D1 AAA coach, so I have no dog in this fight, but I think the number we are afforded in our classification is reasonable - and given the number of high quality players we have - appropriate.

Just found out that it's not going to be a district. Chattanooga Christian just successfully appealed the TSSAA to drop down to D2-A for the next two years (would have been in a district with Baylor, McCallie, and GPS), so we now have a giant region that will take up 1/2 of our regular season games on the girls' side with the addition of St. Cecilia and Lipscomb to our original region.

Yeah, but they have the Moon Pie Festival in Bell Buckle. And probably good stock of RC Colas. And if you look up in the sky from there you can see Sewanee.

Depends on whether one organization or the other mandates that the kids can only play within that organization. ECNL currently does not have that policy, and the TSSAA currently allows kids to play ECNL. I worry about the fatigue factor from ECNL far more than SRPL, given the number of games. The girls will need to factor in what their overall goals are related to playing soccer. Their parents will need to be sensible. Playing both may be too much. USSDA has had the "club only, no school" policy since 2012. My former school in North Carolina had a few players who elected to play USSDA only. One of those ended up at UNC Chapel-Hill (now currently the leading scorer at Charlotte, currently ranked 4th in D1), but another ended up at a D3 mid-table school in the Liberty League. I have to wonder if giving up the last two years of high school soccer was worth it in order to play D3. We had others prior to 2012 who managed to play both USSDA and high school, including this guy: http://www.mlssoccer.com/players/jonathan-campbell Again, it's all about the players and their goals, unless an organization says "No". If that organization says "No" for the right reasons, such as being sincerely worried about over-training, then we will all learn to deal with it, I am sure.

I am confused completely, and I usually am not. I also am not a referee, though sometimes I pretend to be one from the sidelines during games. The link at bottom is a comparative analysis of the rules of the NFHS, NCAA, and FIFA conducted by some guys named Don and George with some pretty official-sounding referee titles. They were comparing the 2016-2017 rules of all 3 organizations to each other. On offsides, they indicate that there is no difference between the 3 sets of rules, and they reference a footnote that reads: "Footnote to the FIFA Offside Law 11 concerning interpretation of “INTERFERING†and “GAINING AN ADVANTAGEâ€. “Interfering with an Opponent†means preventing an opponent from playing or being able to play the ball by clearly obstructing the opponent’s line of vision or movement for challenging an opponent for the ball. “Gaining an Advantage†by being in an offside position means playing a ball that (1)rebounds or is deflected to him off the goal post, crossbar or an opponent; (2) that rebounds or is deflected to him from a deliberate save by an opponent; (3) receiving the ball from an opponent who deliberately plays the ball such as a miskick or misdirected header (except for a deliberate save), is not considered to have gained an advantage and is not offside." I think that last sentence is the key. There is no way I can or will coach my defenders not to try to play a ball that comes to them -- they probably wouldn't listen to me even if I tried. The rule puts them in a difficult position, but I guess it is one more way that the rules have been altered over the years to make it easier for teams to score. Anyway, here is the comparison: https://www.nfhs.org/media/1016876/2016-soccer-guide-interscholastic-revised.doc+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

We are on the other side of the park from you guys. You just have to be willing to walk through the scary woods to find us. The speed will graduate in May. I am not weird. Simply misunderstood.

I am sure they will.

We're playing DCA.

So will fans who want to have a seat at games that are not on the stadium field need to bring portable chairs (i.e., no bleachers)? Thanks in advance. We are on Field 1 on Friday.