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A college soccer coach tells a parent to back off the recruiting process. He explains coaches ignore parental hype, want to hear from the player directly, and suggests commenting "showcase" for event recommendations instead.
A college soccer coach tells a parent to back off the recruiting process. He explains coaches ignore parental hype, want to hear from the player directly, and suggests commenting "showcase" for event recommendations instead.
Coach, coach, good to see you. I want to talk to you about my son. There's a lot of information. I know you got stuff going on. I know you're scouting. I know you're working. I know you're distracted, but this is about my son, and really, that's more important than kind of everything you're doing here. So let me tell you, I want to give you a lot of information. I'm going to be sending you stuff. I'm going to be following up. And now I know it might be more than you want to hear, but really, my kid is special. You need to know. I know he hasn't been on a lot of all-star teams. There hasn't been a lot of interest. In fact, he hasn't started. You may not get to see to play today, but you know what, I'm special, he's special, you're going to listen to me.
If you're a father and you're talking to a college coach this way, first of all, they hate you parents pretty much across the board. So whatever you do say to us, if you decide to come up to us, make it short and sweet. Do not talk to us about everything about your child. Now, you can come up to us at a showcase, just be very polite and quick to the point like you would do at a business meeting. Your opinion of your child, we don't really care about because we don't think you know anything about soccer, even if you do. This is why if before in an email you say to us, hey, here's— and shouldn't come from you, come from your kids. But if your kids say, my father might come up to you and say hi, even that's a little bit on the edge. But if you really feel necessary to play a role in it, make sure it comes from your child. If you want to know what showcase you need to go to, comment the word showcase and I'll be able to send you the right showcases. And now you know what to do at the showcase.
