Texas Christian University
ACHA M2 • TCHC
Date: July 31, 2023
Would Recommend
Eric Bell is NOT a soccer guy. He didn't even start playing the game until he couldn't make the varsity teams his Jr. year of high school in any other sports so he tried out for soccer. Of course, his HS coach puts him up top as a forward because he is fast. He had no college offers to play soccer so he contacted over 300 schools from Division 1 to Division 3 and finally a division III school gave him a partial scholarship to play soccer. He then came out of school and wanted to be a coach. So he did the same thing in writing hundreds of letters to Division 1 & 2 colleges for Head Coaching jobs where he was turned down multiple times by some of the same programs. He finally got on as an Assistant at Florida State which had a decent name for itself. Then title IX and he started writing letters once again. TCU contacted him back. They hired the first coach they interviewed. He does nothing with the preparation of the game plans. He does nothing to put the lineups together. Eric Bell is simply there as a figurehead. He has the personality that Ryan Higginbothem does not have to shake hands and smile at family's and do the on camera interviews that Higginbothom is too big of an A$$-hole not to do. Ryan has tried on many occasions to get a head coaching job but no one will hire him (at least in the Big-12) because everyone sees what a jerk the guy is on the sidelines. Bottomline Eric Bell knows about as much soccer as I do as a father growing up with a daughter that played at the highest levels since the age of 6 and because of her passion I started watching a ton of EPL (English Premier League) BUT that doesn't make me qualified to run practices or develop players beyond their club years!