University of Arkansas (Rich Mountain)

"One of the best"

"He doesn't coach. He doesn't care about his players. He leaves all responsibility to his assistant coaches. Sometimes he leaves without informing the team or even giving a reason. He missed several practices. Sometimes I felt that he didn't even care about the women's team. During our biggest regular season game of the year against Seminole State, he decided to stay back and run the men's team through a practice. He sent his assistants to coach the game instead. He could have done the practice with the men's team that morning and then come to the game and actually completed his responsibility as a coach. This is ridiculous! What kind of a coach, abandons his own team?! He's so impressed with himself. I am not impressed at all. He does not lead. He encourages in-fighting and it shows on the field, especially as the season went on. We had so much talent, and we played our best soccer in the middle of the season, not at the end. He dismissed us, and I don't understand it. We had so much talent. I wouldn't recommend him to anyone. If you have another offer, take it. "

"Insanely manipulative. Emotionally abusive. So insanely terrible. I would not recommend him to my worst enemy. DO NOT LET HIS BUBBLY/NICE RECRUITMENT FOOL YOU. the moment you get there it's a flip of a switch. "

"Absolutely horrible coach. Brags more about his career than actually coach. He makes it a goal to publicly humiliate his players. He is the most negative coach and brings down the whole team. "

"During my time at Rich Mountain, I noticed at every home game and every away game an individual came to our games to support the other team no matter who we played, that unfortunately was our ‘head coach’. I couldn’t be any truer when I say he gave opposition players more feedback when they would get the ball for a throw in then he would’ve given any of us the whole semester I mean it. He unfortunately gave up with the men’s team before it had even started, made sure we did no intense training sessions then would be confused as to why we never matched the intensity of other teams early into games, also didn’t believe in training matches then wondered why we didn’t know how to play in his 600 systems that he also never taught us, and even told the girls team ‘men are stupid’ and that he didn’t believe in any of us succeeding. He countlessly rather than building our confidence up and getting us mentally prepared for a match, would tell us negative things to ‘get a reaction’ like a budget superhero villain. Throughout my time with him, although things didn’t go the way I’d have hoped, I was nothing but respectful to him and his coaching staff, and whilst his staff showed me the same respect, Sherry didn’t. I think maybe because he's coached for so long or maybe because he’s just a grumpy old man that he now has the right to treat anyone how he wants, and unfortunately with me that’s how he saw the matter. From how dismissive he was of my presence when I first introduced myself, to his lack of care when I’d text him asking for conversation surrounding my future, he was unfortunately very inconsiderate, even for a boy who had travelled across the planet to play college soccer, not be apart of the Sherry mind games (once again MY OWN MANAGER). So Sherry when you eventually read this, just remember you turn 63 this year unc. "