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Post by coachray40 on May 18, 2007 14:26:10 GMT -6
Girls side already started a thread, so figured i would start one for the boys.
Some of the teams participating:
D1: Catholic(2 teams), St Amant, East Ascension (2 teams), St Charles Catholic, Dutchtown, University, Episcopal, Baton Rouge HS, Lee, Woodlawn, St Michaels
D2 Catholic, St Amant, East Ascension, Dutchtown, University, BBT(Belaire, Broadmoor, Tara) Mckinley,
D3: Catholic, St Amant, East Ascension, Dutchtown, University(2 teams), Episcopal/Redemptorist JV, Baton Rouge HS, Catholic-Pointe Coupe, Runnels , St Michaels
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Post by coachray40 on Jun 10, 2007 20:05:31 GMT -6
Some scores from weekend#1:
Division I St Amant 4, Episcopal 4 St Charles Catholic 5, Dutchtown 2 East Ascension "A" 4, Catholic-BR "A" 3
Division II Hahnville 6, St Amant 4
Division III St Amant 7, Catholic-PC 1
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Post by biome22 on Jun 10, 2007 20:25:45 GMT -6
Division I: University Gold 8, Lee Llamas 3
Goalscorers: Michael Copeskey (4) Micah Peters (2) Matt Copeskey(1) Gregory Shaw(1)
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Post by brhsoccer14 on Jun 10, 2007 21:48:17 GMT -6
I guess Catholic "A" played two games today... 4 PM Catholic 4:2 McKinley
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Post by coachray40 on Jun 11, 2007 7:07:59 GMT -6
You are correct--each team in one half of Division I has to play 2 games in a day to accomodate the odd # of teams entered(15). We get to do it on the last weekend
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Post by farmboy on Jun 11, 2007 7:28:40 GMT -6
Why is ST micheals in Div II and 3 ?
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Post by racsoccer on Jun 11, 2007 7:55:17 GMT -6
DII: Parkview 5 Christian Life 4
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Post by biome22 on Jun 11, 2007 8:09:56 GMT -6
I was talking to one of the assistant coaches for St. Michael and he said that his Division III team is made primarily up of freshman and sophmores. The rest of his team which has about 12 seniors are in Division II becuase of a registration mix up. The coach said because of the placing in the lower division, he will have to put some of his players on different teams to offer more experience in D1.
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Post by farmboy on Jun 11, 2007 9:08:45 GMT -6
the coach from st micheals had seniors and juniors also playing in the Division III game.Maybe the director of the league can fix the registration mistake?
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Post by coachray40 on Jun 11, 2007 9:42:32 GMT -6
D III Episcopal/Redemptorist 3 Dutchtown 0
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Post by futbolspectator on Jun 11, 2007 21:27:24 GMT -6
Kind of surprising to see Catholic loosing to EA and to see Dutchtown loosing to St. Charles catholic
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Post by biome22 on Jun 11, 2007 22:17:46 GMT -6
EA is extrememly good this year. They only lost one starter and because of that they will probably win most of their games. However, 7v7 is a small field and anything could happen.
Does anyone know if Dutchtown lost a lot of starters or are some players on vacation?
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Post by brhsoccer14 on Jun 12, 2007 16:00:50 GMT -6
I can tell you DTown had many shots, but most were about 200-800ft above or wide of the goal
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Post by biome22 on Jun 12, 2007 17:10:47 GMT -6
Same thing with the Lee Llamas. I saw them warming up and most of their shots were well wide. The goals are only 6 feet 4 inches tall, at least the ones we played on and if you tried to head a ball down, you risked smashing your face in the crossbar. It does take a while to get used to the smaller fields and goals.
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Post by bergkamp on Jun 13, 2007 15:21:03 GMT -6
Its 7v7, let the kids play and who cares about the scores. University has 4 teams. Almost every kid gets to play. One team is totally upcoming freshmen ... BRHS has the same thing. These 13 year old you are talking about are good premier players and can handle Div3.
Don't even bother to coach them on the sideline. ... Let this league serve the purpose of playing soccer. playing small sided games. Trying different things, let the players run the show, subs, formations, ...
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Post by pompey on Jun 13, 2007 20:28:34 GMT -6
Its 7v7, let the kids play and who cares about the scores. University has 4 teams. Almost every kid gets to play. One team is totally upcoming freshmen ... BRHS has the same thing. These 13 year old you are talking about are good premier players and can handle Div3. Don't even bother to coach them on the sideline. ... Let this league serve the purpose of playing soccer. playing small sided games. Trying different things, let the players run the show, subs, formations, ... VERY well said, those getting bent out of shape about the league are completely missing the boat - not what it was intended for. I commend BRSA for its inception and urge coaches not to seriously coach!
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Post by coachray40 on Jun 14, 2007 12:31:21 GMT -6
I wouldnt get too broke up on worrying where teams are placed--many coaches enter their teams and maybe find out they are stronger or weaker than they anticipated. As far as competition goes, its no big deal until the tournament at the end of the season, and at that point teams are given an option to move around within the divisions
As for coaching, I think there is a lot of coaching to be done in these leagues--if you are talking about trying to get your players to improve, not so much game day tactical coaching(read:MANAGING) to win. Habits are learned both good and bad, so coaching is still essential in any setting. Its up to the coach to decide where the focus for his team and players needs to be. Then a good coach will use the 7v7 program to build the ability level and awareness of the players where they have needs for improvement. I am using the summer league to work on flank play and making transition to defending with my team. I WILL coach both of these aspects to my team during the 7v7 league and our summer workouts. If we win and do poorly making transition to defending, I will not be satisfied. If we lose, but improve on these aspects of our play, I will consider the summer a success. Its my opinion that a coach who brings a lawnchair to the field and doesnt try to teach is doing a disservice to the players. At the same time, A coach who is pushing to win at all costs in summer league is missing the point of its use.
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Post by bergkamp on Jun 14, 2007 13:18:07 GMT -6
This is what we are missing in America - playing soccer by the players.
All soccer games are played by the coaches. I don't hide the need to coach, but there is no need to coach when you miss half of your starters for a camps or PDL (players) or what not.
Let them figure which formation is more defensive, let them see the flank play and believe in it.
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Post by Pitchstalker on Jun 14, 2007 13:30:23 GMT -6
I try to use the 7v7 game to get everyone that wants to play more during the summer...time on the field. Doesn't happen during the high school season. It's a chance for the "up and comers" to step up.
Along coachray's line of thinking...we've picked a couple of things to work on...moving the ball forward quickly (transition play) and movement off the ball...along with playing physical. Those are the things we work on...winning is great, but it's not the end all for the league...it's to get the kids more touches on the ball.
But the 7v7 games are left at the field...we very seldom talk about them at training sessions etc. It's like more practice...and in the words of Allen Iverson, "What are we talking about...Practice? I mean it's practice...we're talking about practice. We're talking about practice?"...haha
As far as using it as a guage for next year....not sure how well it translates to a normal game...and some teams split there varsity players across teams instead of making one GREAT team.
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Post by coachray40 on Jun 17, 2007 21:18:25 GMT -6
some week 2 scores:
Division 1 EA II -4, Catholic #1 -3 Dutchtown -3, Episcopal -1 St Amant -3, EA I -3
Division II EA III 8, Parkview Varsity 7 Catholic #3 2, St Amant 1
Division III Episcopal/Redemptorist 8, East Ascension IV 7 St Amant freshmen 4, Runnels Varsity 4
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