Sean Williams

9/24
Coach
Hello Coach. What I wanted to talk to you about is the way you are
running this team. Everybody knows the way you are doing it is all
wrong. The potential for a good team at this school is unreal. But due
to the way you run things you end up driving away all of the good
players. You know there is an issue when, say for example Cole, gets
cut from your team. He is playing Division 1 soccer for Air Force next
year, yet he gets cut from his High School team because you have a
personal grudge against him. As our coach, are you not here to make
us the best team we can be? You need to learn to take some criticism
and be open to suggestions. You cannot maintain a high level team
when you cut players such as Cole, James, Nick, and Kyle who will be
playing at Division one schools, merely because they do not buy in
100% to what you want to do with the team. To have a good team you
need good players. Thats the bottom line. Even somebody who has
never seen a soccer ball in their life would agree that this is not the
correct way to coach. If you were not so stubborn and didnt have such
a thick skull we could have one of the top High School teams in the
nation. What are we instead? Average. If thats what you want by all
means keep making these stupid decisions and continue holding
grudges against players for questioning your tactics ONE TIME!! Its no

surprise that people dont want to play for your program, and for that I
am glad to not be playing for you this year.

1. Who. Who are you talking to? What is your relationship to

them? What does this person mean to you? How long have you
known them?
I am talking to my highschool soccer coach. Our relationship was pretty
strictly coach athlete. This person did not mean to much to me,
except for the fact that he took away the opportunity to play high
school soccer. I have known them for around 4 years at the time this
takes place.
2. What and Why. What it is youre trying to get from this person?
Why are you talking to them? What has JUST happened that
propels you to talk to this person?
At this point I had just been cut from the team my senior year. I am not
trying to be put on the team, but rather get my point across to the
coach that the way he is running the team is all wrong. I am trying to
make him better the program for the future. The ironic thing is that he
got fired from his coaching job after the completion of this season in
which he cut me and many other good players.
3. Where. Where are you? Please be specific. Dont just say the
location. Describe in detail what is around you and what you
see.

I am sitting in the front right desk of the coachs classroom at our

school, which is Carney Room number 013. It is in the basement of the
building, and there are many biology posters dispersed on the walls.
4. When. When in your life is this taking place? What time of year
is it? What time of day?
This is taking place in mid November of my senior year. 2013. This
conversation would have likely taken place during lunch time, which
would be near 12:30 pm.