Originally posted by SuzieSkywalker
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This gets right to the point, doesn’t it? You may have spared some of your families, but not all of them, and you certainly didn’t spare anyone outside of the Stars. This is precisely the cold, calculating, and disrespectful sort of attitude I personally and so many others find so offensive. I could actually care less whether you value the R1PL, the central issue is the Stars as a club decided to enter a team into a league and then chose not to support it. By doing that you screwed way more people than you actually want to consider. That is a rather sad indictment on how you run that club. Basically you don’t give a hoot about anybody, including the very families that support your club.
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Here is what your families should start considering. The Stars are not going to pay the price for your transgressions, they are. As a former supporter I know full well that every family knows exactly just how tenuous their child’s spot is on one of your teams. For heaven’s sake, everyone within the entire state knows how you threaten and belittle your players and lord knows that no one is exactly blind to what the constant recruiting actually means. Your own sideline jokes in a gallows way how you would cut your own mother if you thought someone else would score more goals. We all just ignore it hoping that we can endure long enough to reach what we all stupidly think is a pot of gold at the end. In the end though a good number of us either burn out, run out of money or just realize the pot of gold just wasn’t what we thought it was and look to leave the club. The problem is there is not as many options as we would like to think.
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What the other Stars families never seem to take into account though is where are they going to go if their daughter does get cut or finally has had enough and asks to leave? The sad truth that we learned is there are not a whole lot of open arms just dying to scoop up ex-Stars players. When players such as my daughter leave the Stars they are usually burnt out on soccer and dispirited from the way they were treated. Let’s face the truth, it is not like the girls have much left to bring to a new team and what the parents will find is the other clubs/coaches already know this. What we found was most think there is just too much baggage to take a chance on. The older the girls are and more ingrained the Stars culture is in them the more true this becomes. On top of that, the Stars families should probably also factor in how angry some of these clubs are with the Stars for their shenanigans. Issues this R1PL fiasco really do cause hard feelings and that does create difficulty when one of the families wants to or is forced to leave. The way some of us left our other clubs doesn’t help either. The other clubs hate the Stars and a lot of us burned bridges to join them so no one should expect to get a break if you decide leave. You’ll be real lucky to get out of hell.
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Here is what your families should start considering. The Stars are not going to pay the price for your transgressions, they are. As a former supporter I know full well that every family knows exactly just how tenuous their child’s spot is on one of your teams. For heaven’s sake, everyone within the entire state knows how you threaten and belittle your players and lord knows that no one is exactly blind to what the constant recruiting actually means. Your own sideline jokes in a gallows way how you would cut your own mother if you thought someone else would score more goals. We all just ignore it hoping that we can endure long enough to reach what we all stupidly think is a pot of gold at the end. In the end though a good number of us either burn out, run out of money or just realize the pot of gold just wasn’t what we thought it was and look to leave the club. The problem is there is not as many options as we would like to think.
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What the other Stars families never seem to take into account though is where are they going to go if their daughter does get cut or finally has had enough and asks to leave? The sad truth that we learned is there are not a whole lot of open arms just dying to scoop up ex-Stars players. When players such as my daughter leave the Stars they are usually burnt out on soccer and dispirited from the way they were treated. Let’s face the truth, it is not like the girls have much left to bring to a new team and what the parents will find is the other clubs/coaches already know this. What we found was most think there is just too much baggage to take a chance on. The older the girls are and more ingrained the Stars culture is in them the more true this becomes. On top of that, the Stars families should probably also factor in how angry some of these clubs are with the Stars for their shenanigans. Issues this R1PL fiasco really do cause hard feelings and that does create difficulty when one of the families wants to or is forced to leave. The way some of us left our other clubs doesn’t help either. The other clubs hate the Stars and a lot of us burned bridges to join them so no one should expect to get a break if you decide leave. You’ll be real lucky to get out of hell.
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