re: United States of F#ck Yeah v. Sanka's Dentist | Nations League Semis | 6pm CT (P+)

They were gift wrapped an opportunity to move on

New director/gm/whatever the hell they are
His contract expired
The obvious Reyna blowup

And they still kept him onboard. Rumors are he was the 5th choice or something, but let's face it we're stuck with him.

That tying own goal last night might be the worst thing that could have happened for the USMNT because Berhalter might actually have gotten canned if they lose this match

Thing is, we will have a home field World Cup which will only happen this once in our lifetimes. And we have the worst coach. And the best pool of players.

Our wins are in spite of coaching not because of it. It takes a broken play or one person to splash rather than team play.

I go back to OKC Thunder shortly after they moved. They fired Carlisimo and hired Scotty Brooks. Well, they had such a talented group of players (KD, Russ and Harden for starters) that the player talent won games not the coaching. But Brooks never taught his players he only benefited from them winning more and more every year. GM wasn’t going to fire a coach who kept winning more games each year. By the time he was fired it was too late. Players had bad habits and their window was gone as KD checked out.

This is what we have in USMNT now. A HC who is doing nothing tactically but has one of the greatest talent pools in our history who can often win on their own in spite of GB. That lucky win last night did more damage than a loss.

Fans are so confused too. They want to root for the players yet hate the coach. I’ve never seen so much coach hate as I see with GB. So fans want to both win and lose at the same time for the future of team. Never seen anything like this. I have yet to run into one person who is fully behind GB. Not one.

And if he stays and we do bad in WC, it will set US Soccer back decades as fans will leave for good. Last night was a small crowd in a soccer metro. It’s already starting.

Giving up the early goal forced Jamaica to be as negative as possible, so it was always going to look like an ugly game from that point on. In that aspect, the result doesn't bother me that much even if we lost.

My biggest issue with last night was that the players were sloppy and tactically we kept trying the same thing over and over even with the personnel changes. The process really bothered me.

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(except Jesse marsh lol)

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An underrated feud in all of this is Gregg vs Jesse.

There's video of Jesse not celebrating at all when the own goal was scored. And then in the post match presser, Gregg fired shots at Jesse, who on his podcast said the only reason Gregg called in Gio this camp was because of their past drama.

It's like two children with downs fighting.

Jesse is coming across as a sleeze in all this though. He said earlier this week that he wouldn't call Gio in this camp, then yesterday questions why Gregg didn't start Gio and says he better start him in the final.

How do you know they didn’t perform a coaching search?

Meg Swanick, Henry and Jesse refused to do all the Psyc and Intel testing. GGG was the only one who jumped all the hoops.

Wasn’t Patrick Vieira interested but didn’t get interviewed?

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Wasn’t Patrick Vieira interested but didn’t get interviewed?

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He did get interviewed, then laughed the USSF out of the interview.

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What happened? My understanding is that we approached him and he basically said he would rather try to keep coaching club soccer. I didn’t realize we actually interviewed him.

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Maybe saying we interviewed him is too formal, we definitely approached him about the job and he said nah, you don't have your shite together.

They conducted about as much of a search as Joe Alleva did in 2016.

And when you get the info from him or his camp they will also tell you he was very thorough and everything just came back to Orgeron being the best available option.