Date: November 20, 2023
Would Recommend
Cody is the biggest narcissist I have ever met in my life and does not take responsibility for anything. Not once has he owned up to his mistakes that we have brought forward to him and taken constructive criticism. I want to share some stories from my time here at Midland to give you some context to who he truly is as a person. The first year Cody was coaching at Midland he said a racial slur at practice within the first few weeks. Another terrible thing that he would do all the time is comment on our bodies and how it affects us as athletes. A few examples of this are (1) he told a player in a one-on-one meeting that she needs to stop eating so many carbs so that she would be more agile, (2), in another athlete one-on-one meeting he had asked her with no context if he could feel her thighs and then after told her that all of her stress is going straight to her legs, (3) he pulled a girl aside after practice to explain to her why she hadn't been getting as much playing time, his reasoning was that her body was maturing and she couldn't keep up with it. These are only a few examples that I am willing to share because frankly, they all disgust me. He does not hold himself to a professional standard whatsoever. He would consistently dump all of his previous trauma on us and would use it as a weird bonding opportunity or blame us for not having similar experiences. One time after a game that we lost we had over an hour long talk in the locker room and he was telling us a story of how he beat up his old best friend to protect someone and told us he should have been arrested and put in jail for how badly he had hurt him. Another unprofessional instance is the fact that he would bring up all the time that he used to sell drugs in his past. One thing I would like to bring up is all of the positive reviews that I have seen saying that the only people who dislike Cody are the people who didn't receive playing time. I was a starter every single year that I was at Midland and saw plenty of time on the field. Yet I was still treated like dirt and was used as a punching bag for Cody. He manipulates you into how you're supposed to feel and not how you are actually doing. From the first day I arrived at Midland, I was treated like an outsider for no apparent reason. I have never once been treated with dignity or respect. He will never give you a compliment when you are playing well because "that is an assistant coach's job" and will only compliment you if you are one of his favorites. He will single people out in team huddles and completely embarrass players. There have been several cases will I will politely ask a question for clarification in practice and he will beat me down. Abusing his power against me and making me hate the sport of soccer. I never felt safe at practice or games constantly on edge for when I would be yelled at next due to his bipolar behavior. After Cody got fired midseason I saw my team flourish. I saw girls start to score who hadn't in years. I was finally happy to see girls who were about to quit soccer smile and enjoy the sport that they loved so much. There were so many girls before that who gave up playing because of Cody and it is unfortunate that it took so many sacrifices from them to finally get someone to hear our complaints. We ended up winning the conference championship at the end of this season something that Cody never had achieved here. If he had still been here we wouldn't have been able to do that with him, number one because the majority of our team would have quit before then and number two because of his poor coaching ability.