Post by mswilb on Feb 15, 2009 21:06:28 GMT -6
I am sorry but offense is taken. There is no purpose to this post but to belittle young ladies who have worked extremely hard since conditioning began in September. As their coach let me first tell everyone how proud I am of each one of them. We started 2 seniors 1 who can play for any school in the state and 1 who saw her first soccer field her freshman year. 6 juniors 4 of whom played their first soccer in their freshman year. I learned that Vandy began the season with 60 girls most with experience, while we at DeRidder began with about 3 with D-1 and above club experience and several who never participated in anything but high school level soccer before this fall and I would be willing to bet that there are many Division II high school teams in the same condition. Top level Division I schools have an almost unlimited talent pool to choose from. So while we may not play what you would consider attractive soccer we have played well enough to reach the Semis and that is something to be proud of regardless of anyone opinion so kindly keep yours useless one to yourself.
Thanks
Shane Wilber
DeRidder Lady Dragons Proud Head Coach
While I am very proud of my opinion and since it is free country I am going to express it again instead of keeping it to myself.
Your post just proved my point, you started with a team with little experience and you made it to the semi-finals of the division. Congratulation to you, you are a great coach obviously. My point is that if you had been classified as a Division I team you would have never made it so far. I did not mean to belittle what you have done and it is quite remarkable that you got to the semis of your division. It is great that you are working hard to develop soccer in your area and I am sure it will pay off big time in a few years. I am very impatient to see how much better you come back next year and I wish you the best.
I understand your point and know that we could not compete with the top level of Division I my problem is that your post serves no purpose Division I teams should be able to beat us as they have larger student populations and therefore a deeper talent pool. As dhsfan stated we can go only about 13 to 14 deep into our bench before the level of play drops dramatically while the best teams in the state have JV players that could get playing time on most D2 teams. So when you post something like that you take away not only the effort that we put into our season but the accomplishment of Vandebilt as well, basically saying that they have not accomplished anything and while not trying to be an expletitive I can understand a kid trying to run down these young ladies I do not understand why an adult would want to.