Vassar College
NCAA DIII • NULL
Date: October 17, 2024
Would Recommend
Constantly refers to the soccer team as "his program" and "his career/legacy" making the players just a chess peice in his life long game. Admits to not wanting to play his best 11 and that talent is not the determinent of playing time but his percieved commitment to "what he's doing" which is measure not through time, effort, and success but basically who blows smoke up is a*s. Freshmen came up to me as a senior asking why the team had not made it clear during her recruitment that no one liked the staff as they felt lied to and decieved throughout the entire recruitment process compared to the reality upon arrival. I and others began taking a removed role in talking to recruits because we too did not want to mislead them. He uses players to mess with other players heads and as a result I have had to watch poor first year get excited and starting and playing significant time in multiple games in a row and doing nothing wrong only to be subsequently benched for the next games with zero discussion because they were unaware that an older player was simple in what some refer to as "time out." If you in anyway struggle with your body as many young girls do, please do not come to a program under this man where I expressed concern for the culture around fitness that was prompting players to work out three times a day 7 days a week and asked him to step in and tell them it was excessive because they were not listening to others, only to be told that I was undermining there dedication to the program (and to no surpirse we had teammates with countless overuse injuries and people needing to take semesters off for ED recovery. I loved my time at Vassar outside of soccer but it is really telling when alumni games have had to be cancelled for three years due to no attendence and when we play the prior female team who used to be an assistant coach (Wesleyan) they want nothing to do with him and talk s**t about him to players on our team.