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Soccer.... flat lands style

A bit of my history. As a very young man involved with YMCA sports, my Father who was something of a basketball star at Boelus High School was envisioning me becoming another star like himself. I can't imagine his disappointment in my skills, or even a glimmer of understanding the sport basketball. I didn't have any of it. I was intimated by my fellow team members, and of course the other team.

Pop was also on the Boelus farm Baseball team. Yes, Boelus had their own ball field with lites, just outside of town in a flood plain.

Little Chiefs was the league I went out for, and again, I was way to immature mentally and physically to play any team sports. It just didn't fit the way I thought.

Because of this history, I've never been a fan of sports. Cornhuskers included. Believe me its a brutal position here in Nebraska, home of the bug eaters (who knew I'd ever get a chance to use that term correctly) .

Once I got to high school I did go out for Xcountry, and Track. I wasn't good at either one, but felt to be a part of something social. With my Pop a State Trooper, and my Mom a working RN, it was rare they'd appear when I competed, due to night shifts and day sleeping.

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Way back in the dinosaur days.... My oldest and middle sons decided by peer pressure to take up soccer. I'd guess 1rst or 2nd grade. This would be 1983ish.

Back then all soccer was played on Saturdays, at Woods Park, put on by Lincoln YMCA. This very moment in time, the Lincoln YMCA was the largest soccer club in America (over 500?). Woods Park at 33rd and O, was overwhelmed.

Back then, most Cornhusker parents couldn't even pronounce soccer, let alone even know the rules.

With that, I witnessed Parents coaching soccer, like the sport was football. the unhappy "Athletic Parent Syndrome" was very apparent. I witnessed it a lot back then. Its still lives to this day, but nothing like back then.

Parent coaches, parent spectators, were pretty venomous towards other teams, and "boosting" their own team.

All of that made me even more uncomfortable with sports.

After YMCA was fairly established, there was rumor of another soccer club forming in Lincoln, called CSA. CSA "gasp" had paid coaches, that were even certified in coaching soccer. The best of the best in Lincoln usually ended up joining CSA.

By 1993ish, my youngest son Josh was of age to play soccer (kindergarten then). He was coached by one of the Mom's and my oldest son Jake. The next year I decided to jump in with both feet and coach, to learn soccer, via certification thru the "Y". The "Y" was still a volunteer coach club.

I took soccer coach class from the Wesleyan girls coach. He had a winning record, and was a good instructor. In fact I took the class twice, as the team grew in experience, I gained coaching help, and went with my other coaches. (I still have a certificate somewhere, I believe it was the NSSA certification)

In general terms, the teams with "football" coaches, we'd normally beat. And the better coached teams always were weary of us, as we could surprise everyone. "Silly Waverly team... nothing but hicks!"

Our record was running about 50/50 (maybe a little bit better). As I wasn't pushing hard for winning seasons, but more for the education and enjoying soccer. My long range goal was for the boys to get opportunity to go on and play on a college team (I know, pretty lofty).

I had a couple of mentor coaches back then. Ones that I really looked up to, and tried to apply their ways with the boys (and 1 girl the late Carly Pester). A Lincoln high club coach, and Bob Warming at Creighton.

Once I found Bob Warming, I bought season tickets to all home Creighton games. Good times, Jonny Torres was the star reinventing soccer in the midwest. Now Jonny is the head coach (after playing pro on several different teams), and Bob is on retainer as consultant.

Got to meet Bob at a couple soccer camps. Very humble but outspoken coach. Really identified with him.

These guys coached games mostly very quiet for the most part. Their philosophy, was that if you had to yell and scream at the game, it was too late. If the team was failing you had to teach correction at practice. I know, way too simple, but that's what it boils down to. Coach Bob..... went to NCAA every year, and always finished very hi.

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This all sounds polite and gentlemanly to a point, but I have a side story to insert here.

My boys had to travel to Kearney for a game early in the season. The team and the parents were the worst poor sports I have ever witnessed. It was so bad, that mentally my kids were completely out of the game, and didn't have a chance. It was a blood bath. It was extreme, we were even badgered in the parking lot when we were leaving. I'd never seen before or since such actions against another team.

Later in the season, Kearney had to come to Lincoln to play us. The Kearney team was playing extremely rough, bad mouthing... just the worst sports ever. Again we lost, as I don't coach that type of playing, so the boys were not mentally into the game.

End of game I told the field ref.... "I'll take the red card, as I don't care..... but we will not becoming onto field to shake hands. This was the worst game ref'd and played I've ever seen"....

Ref became very pissed, and demanded we all come on field and berated us (both teams) for how the game went.

After the game I wrote a letter to the organizers of our league (only time I ever did it) complaining about the kearney team. And that if we got scheduled to play with them again next season, we would take the forfeit.

It turned out we were not the only team to complain. There was another. The next season, they were kicked out of the league.

The following season, they were allowed back in..... totally completely turned around. The best sports ever. All smiling faces. And still a good skilled team. I honestly don't remember if we won or not, but it was a true pleasure to play them.

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About the time the boys (and 1 girl) got to Jr. Hi, we ended up taking the league. A very proud moment for such a small silly metal. This particular season, thru attrition, we were slimmed way down on our size of membership. If I remember right, we only had 14 on the bench. That season I received more compliments from other coaches on how "in shape" my players were. And they were, as part of practice was just getting "lungs" to play.....

It was also about at this time I volunteered to help the high school girls team. On the girls team was one of Jake's early girl friends and I had heard a lot of disappointment from her about the coach.

He was a true football coach during season, and was told if he wanted to be a teacher at Waverly, he had to coach the girls soccer team. Nothing like volunteering.

Bret was a good guy, just a terrible soccer coach that didn't want to take any classes, or learn about it. It was filler for spring sports.

I volunteered to help coach goal keepers. I'm not a goal keeper coach, but watching our goal keepers, it was an easy job, they weren't goal keepers. Anything I'd offer, was like magic to them.

Back in those days... there was no "class" for different high schools. All soccer was ALL CLASS, as there were not enough teams to form a season. So inexperienced teams like Waverly (class B), would play powerhouse teams like Lincoln High (class A).

I witnessed a lot of Nebraska high school soccer history during these years. Stuff that now is common, but rare back then.

Cornhuskers decided to start a girls soccer team. Coached by a Canadian National coach (off season). They were playing all home games at CSA champion stadium then. As new as they were, they were always very competitive all the way to NCAA. John Walker is still the cornhusker coach.

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My boys team eventually made it up to hi school age, and all pretty much went out for soccer, and all made varsity by Sophomore year. I'd still coach them off season. The coach was not a soccer coach, but Waverly had enough talent/skill to go to a long way during season. Making it to state, etc.

I have to comment here, to the credit of THIS coach. Waverly had a huge reputation as a very violent team with the coach before. I remember after watching them play Lincoln High with my 2 older sons, and they were going thru the hand shake line, one of the Waverly kids cold cocked one of the Lincoln High kids, right there in the hand shake line. Oh my....

My hi school girls never became a power house, as a large number had NO experience playing soccer in their lives. Because of this, you'd be lucky if you had 7 experienced players on the field at one time.

By the time I left to retire (2002) from the high school girls, the latest coach Joel was pretty good stuff. He's been inheriting a lot of highly skilled girls, but just can't get a break when it comes to the end of the season tournaments. Joel is still the girls hi school coach and coaches off season.... he's that committed.

Back in the beginning when it was "All" class, we had some amazing athletic studs, that would at least pull the team together mentally. They didn't know soccer, but they knew team sports.

The late Carly Pest went on to play with the girls once in hi school, and was on varsity her freshman year, as a keeper.

I got to see Josh play at state 2 times. But none of the boys I coached went on to play college soccer.

My girls, who kept coming back game after game only to get the shit kicked out of them...... I had 5 girls go on and actually made varsity, and played college soccer. Midlands in Fremont, Wesleyan in Lincoln, Concordia in Seward.

Now I'm watching 3 granddaughters play soccer. One is in 2nd grade. another middle school, and oldest a sophomore in hi school. In the over 20 years since I retired, flatland soccer has evolved huge.

Soccer skills have improved by leaps. No more the isolated star. All players are playing like the stars of past, as those skills are common now.

Too many clubs today, I don't have a clue, how many. Most if not all clubs are paid coaches. Many of the coaches are coaching multiple teams, and coaching as a paid career. (sidenote: for a short period one summer I was coaching 5 teams at once, all volunteer). Kids are traveling very far to be on teams (Lincoln kids going to Gretna clubs). Club teams traveling all over the country to compete in tournaments.

I think I need to stop there, as the "money" being spent on ALL youth today in sports, is a completely another topic, that i'm not sure I can wrap my head around it.

Youth Soccer in Nebraska is in the spring.... the season has started. It'll be another season of me watching my girls, with a smile on my face. They each are showing some excellent skills, that are going to take them places.

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ausetkmt · 1 year ago

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A sweeping Texas bill stripping authority from cities passed the state Senate on Tuesday and is now headed to the governor’s desk.

House Bill 2127 takes large domains of municipal governing — from payday lending laws to regulations on rest breaks for construction workers to laws determining whether women can be discriminated against based on their hair — out of the hands of the state’s largely Democratic-run cities and shifts them to its Republican-controlled legislature.

According to the Austin American Statesman, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has been a vocal supporter of the bill.

Progressive critics argue the legislation — which one lawyer for Texas cities called “the Death Star” for local control — represents a new phase in the campaign by conservative state legislatures to curtail the power of blue-leaning cities.

Opponents of the bill include civil society groups like the AFL-CIO — and representatives of every major urban area in Texas, along with several minor ones.

They argue the shift in power it would enable would hamstring cities’ abilities to make policies to fit their unique circumstances.

“Where the state is silent, and it is silent on a lot — local governments step into that breach, to act on behalf of our shared constituents,” state Sen. Sarah Eckhardt (D) told the Senate on Tuesday.

“We should be doing our job rather than micromanaging theirs.”

But the bill’s Senate sponsor, state Sen. Brandon Creighton (R), said it was necessary to protect “job creators” from “cities and counties acting as lawmakers outside of their jurisdiction.”

Both the legislation’s sponsors and the principal trade group that backed it — the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) — have argued local regulation poses an existential threat to Texas businesses.

“As prices escalate, property taxes increase, and workers remain in short supply, small business owners are continuing to struggle in this economic environment,” said Annie Spilman, state director of the NFIB, in a statement earlier this month. “Arduous local ordinances, no matter how well-intended, exacerbate these challenges.”

The NFIB’s solution to that problem: one set of rules governing business across the state, which it says will cut costs by preventing the “patchwork” of local and county regulations that govern Texas’s sprawling cities.

While the NFIB and the legislation are officially nonpartisan, support for the bill has been overwhelmingly Republican.

The bill passed the state Senate 18-13 on a nearly party-line vote afterpassing the House in April with the votes of just eight out of 65 Democrats.

If enacted, the legislation would have a wide reach, banning — technically “preempting” — broad swaths of the state code.

It would nullify many existing ordinances, like Austin and Dallas’s heat protections for construction workers.

It would also ban new restrictions on payday lending or puppy mills, although — after a long fight — existing city laws will be preserved.

Urban advocates say other specific local laws without state or federal analogs — like an Austin law banning discrimination based on hair texture or style — would also likely be struck down.

The bill failed to pass in the 2019 or 2021 sessions — in part because it was seen as too broad, Austin City Councilor Ryan Alter told The Hill.

But with every failed passage, Alter said, “The bill has only gotten broader.”

Alter listed the state preemption of the Property and Business and Commerce codes as two domains that would lead to unforeseen consequences for cities.

“We do a lot of things as the city as relates to property, land use and issues concerning land, and we make a lot of decisions that impact business and commerce,” Alter added.

The bill also preempts city and county ordinances relating to the Agriculture Code, Finance Code, Insurance Code, Labor Code, Natural Resources Code and Occupations Code.

One worry among the legislation’s opponents is procedural.

The state legislature only meets every two years, making each session a logjam of potential bills, most of which never go anywhere. In 2022, for example, the Legislature passed about 38 percent of the nearly 10,000 bills introduced.

That low frequency of meetings and state-level focus make the Legislature a body opponents argue is ill-suited to managing the day-to-day affairs of cities.

Under the new law, “cities and counties across Texas will have to rely on the state’s part-time Legislature, which meets for only 140 days every two years, to address various issues and problems of local concern,” Adrian Shelley, Texas director for public interest advocacy group Public Citizen, said in a statement.

Spilman of the NFIB has argued the law was necessary to rein in out-of-control municipal governments.

The long campaign for the legislation that became H.B. 2127 began in 2018, when Dallas, Austin and San Antonio passed ordinances requiring employers to offer paid sick leave.

Those laws were later shot down by state and federal courts as a violation of state bans on raising the minimum wage above the federal standard.

But the ordinances would have given city governments subpoena power to investigate potential violations — powers which worried the NFIB, Spilman said in an April statement.

“I just don’t know why a city ordinance would have something in there like that. That’s very frightening to a small business owner, with no compliance officers.”

The need for the legislation was urgent, she added at the time. “You go another two years without this protection — we just don’t know what cities might propose next.”

Opponents, meanwhile, argue the bill would present challenges to businesses because its scope is so broad as to make it impossible to say how far it will reach.

“If there is one thing businesses hate it is uncertainty,” Houston city attorney Collyn Peddie wrote in an April statement.

“Because 2127 barely attempts to define the fields that it purports to preempt, [self-governing] cities will not know what laws to enforce and, more important, businesses will not know what laws to obey,” Peddie continued.

Another source of concern for bill opponents is the method of enforcement, which — as in the case of the state’s “bounty” abortion ban — would occur through lawsuits.

The bill would authorize “any person who has sustained an injury in fact, actual or treated” to sue cities and counties for passing ordinances in areas now officially under the domain of the state.

Winners of such suits would get damages and attorney’s fees covered.

Whenever cities pass big ordinances, “people get clever in their lawsuits to challenge anything they don’t like,” said Alter, the Austin councilor.

“And because the bill is so broad there are a lot of opportunities for people to poke holes in any bills the city passes.”

The NFIB’s position is that the newly preempted powers aren’t being taken away from cities: They’re ones the cities never had to start with, as Spilman explained to The Hill.

The legislation’s GOP sponsors agree. “It’s a ‘stay in your lane’ bill,” Rep. Dustin Burrows (R) said at a February event hosted by the NFIB. “If you’re a city, do your core functions. If you’re a county, do your core functions.”

Burrows has dismissed critics of the bill as “taxpayer-funded lobbyists” who he told the Texas Tribune in March were “out in full force trying to undermine this effort.”

In those remarks, Burrows took a tack familiar from statehouse Republican messaging nationwide.

Groups opposing the bills, he added, “are beholden to special interest groups who cannot get their liberal agenda through at the statehouse, so they go to city halls across the State, creating a patchwork of unnecessary and anti-business ordinances.”

But bill opponents argued that local laws are a “patchwork“ because local conditions are, too.

“Lawmakers who voted for this must explain to their constituents why they gave away local authority to lawmakers hundreds of miles away in Austin who may have never even set foot in their community,” said Adrian Shelley, Texas director of advocacy group Public Citizen.

Eckhardt, the state senator from Bastrop, argued the legislation “obliterates the local balancing of interests that creates the distinct local flavor from Lubbock to Houston, Laredo to Texarkana.”

Bills like House Bill 2127 “excuse the Texas legislature from leading,” she added.

“We are wasting our precious 140 days — when we could be doing statewide health, education, justice and prosperity policies — barging into bedrooms, locker rooms, boardrooms examining rooms and now city council meetings.”

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BY SAUL ELBEIN - 05/16/23 5:43 PM ET

A sweeping Texas bill stripping authority from cities passed the state Senate on Tuesday and is now headed to the governor’s desk.

According to the Austin American Statesman, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has been a vocal supporter of the bill.

Opponents of the bill include civil society groups like the AFL-CIO — and representatives of every major urban area in Texas, along with several minor ones.

They argue the shift in power it would enable would hamstring cities’ abilities to make policies to fit their unique circumstances.

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While the NFIB and the legislation are officially nonpartisan, support for the bill has been overwhelmingly Republican.

The bill passed the state Senate 18-13 on a nearly party-line vote after passing the House in April with the votes of just eight out of 65 Democrats.