dudemon wrote:I don't read any of the posts above as proposing that the CC coach "sabotaged" his own team, but sometimes coaches make decisions to change lineups that backfire. Sometimes they want to see what options they have or don't have, and those experiments don't always work out. Sometimes coaches make decisions based on a longer view of things and those decisions can adversely impact short-term results. Sometimes parents pressure coaches to try their kid at a certain position. I don't know the reasons for the changes in lineups for CC, but I think we can safely exclude the possibility of "sabotage."

4D-Record wrote:Sounds like the "Squirrel heads" are on the shoulders of the Tyler parents.

And to answer your question, NOOOOOO, the consideration was never made about Tyler. CCO's wheels fell off, that's all. Have fun playing in D2, you and Plantit should get along just fine.

dudemon wrote:I don't read any of the posts above as proposing that the CC coach "sabotaged" his own team, but sometimes coaches make decisions to change lineups that backfire. Sometimes they want to see what options they have or don't have, and those experiments don't always work out. Sometimes coaches make decisions based on a longer view of things and those decisions can adversely impact short-term results. Sometimes parents pressure coaches to try their kid at a certain position. I don't know the reasons for the changes in lineups for CC, but I think we can safely exclude the possibility of "sabotage."

4D-Record wrote:Sounds like the "Squirrel heads" are on the shoulders of the Tyler parents.

And to answer your question, NOOOOOO, the consideration was never made about Tyler. CCO's wheels fell off, that's all. Have fun playing in D2, you and Plantit should get along just fine.

crazyET wrote:Dudemon: you may not be showing any disrespect but 4D Record's comment about us enjoying D2 shows very little class or respect. Especially if he is from your club, since you will be likely joining us there unless you fix everything that is apparently broken before your make up game on the 12th. I have never once badmouthed CC or said their first half run was luck or "smoke and mirrors" as Go described it. I was very impressed with your first half wins. On the other hand, just about everyone has jabbed at Tyler for knowing nothing about soccer, our focus on football, our supposed culinary tastes, our supposed pension for inbreeding. We have even been told to "go back to East Texas where (we) belong." I have taken it all in stride and even thrown more than a few jabs our way myself. I just wanted to know if anyone else besides us in our East Texas bubble thought anything positive about our team. I do think we have improved but I also don't believe we were that far behind the first half of the season when every loss we experienced was a tie at half time and we were the ones stumbling over ourselves in the second half of those games. Thank you for being more tactful than 4D and for your kind words. I hope you fix your problems soon because I have been pulling for you since you qualified.

go99 wrote:Hold on I didn't say it was smoke and mirrors or luck. I look at the game against Suarez and I see a game that just went their way. I don't think cc is a better team than suarez and if that played that game several times suarez would win most of the time. They just had a few games early on that they won that raised the level of peoples expectations. They didn't beat Azzuri because I don't think they are a better team than azzuri. I think the 2 team are comparable and azurri may have the physical edge. I love to make fun of the E texas folks just as much as the next guy but that team is every bit as good as CC and maybe better, regardless of changes or fallen wheels.

go99 wrote:I do think Azzuri is just as good as CC maybe a little better. Not sure how that will hold up, I would assume it would be easier for CC to bring in talent. Although I hear the coach is a screamer which doesn't help.

crazyET wrote:

go99 wrote:I do think Azzuri is just as good as CC maybe a little better. Not sure how that will hold up, I would assume it would be easier for CC to bring in talent. Although I hear the coach is a screamer which doesn't help.

That is the challenge out here but, frankly, I am pretty pleased with all the boys on this team. They all work hard and bring their own strengths. There is no drama between the parents or coach and the kids all get along great.

crazyET wrote:Dudemon: you may not be showing any disrespect but 4D Record's comment about us enjoying D2 shows very little class or respect. Especially if he is from your club, since you will be likely joining us there unless you fix everything that is apparently broken before your make up game on the 12th. I have never once badmouthed CC or said their first half run was luck or "smoke and mirrors" as Go described it. I was very impressed with your first half wins. On the other hand, just about everyone has jabbed at Tyler for knowing nothing about soccer, our focus on football, our supposed culinary tastes, our supposed pension for inbreeding. We have even been told to "go back to East Texas where (we) belong." I have taken it all in stride and even thrown more than a few jabs our way myself. I just wanted to know if anyone else besides us in our East Texas bubble thought anything positive about our team. I do think we have improved but I also don't believe we were that far behind the first half of the season when every loss we experienced was a tie at half time and we were the ones stumbling over ourselves in the second half of those games. Thank you for being more tactful than 4D and for your kind words. I hope you fix your problems soon because I have been pulling for you since you qualified.

plantit wrote:

crazyET wrote:

go99 wrote:I do think Azzuri is just as good as CC maybe a little better. Not sure how that will hold up, I would assume it would be easier for CC to bring in talent. Although I hear the coach is a screamer which doesn't help.

That is the challenge out here but, frankly, I am pretty pleased with all the boys on this team. They all work hard and bring their own strengths. There is no drama between the parents or coach and the kids all get along great.

+ They can skin a buck , they can run a trout line and dem country boys can survive.

Ibystander wrote:ET, that wasn't you giving CPR to the possum, I hope?

crazyET wrote:

Ibystander wrote:ET, that wasn't you giving CPR to the possum, I hope?

Nope, not me. I'm not a PETA fan. If it needed CPR, it was ready for the stew.

crazyET wrote:Forbin: I don't take any of it too seriously as you can tell from some of my responses and attempts at self-depricating humor. My point was simply that we take our fair share of bashing on here and probably most of that is my fault for getting on here and engaging in this, often times, nonsense. I am certainly not offended by any of it. I'm not from here originally and used to have some of the same attitudes about the area. I can't complain too much about the jokes since I once got a cookbook for Christmas from a vendor in Louisiana that had recipes for muskrat, squirrel, nutrea, beaver, of course alligator and crawdads, and several creatures I had never even heard of. I guess he figured I could use it since I was right next door. I look forward to many battles next year. Which team are you with? I understand if you'd rather not say.