Why does our front office take so long to fire coaches? If they would fire them sooner then maybe there wouldn't be so much animosity toward the coaches at end of their tenure. Andrulis, Fitzgerald, and Warzycha are most likely good people, but the Hunt's hold onto them so long that an intense hatred grows around these otherwise good people.
I'm not sure what the point of this is, but take a look at the Crew preview from a 2002 program. How often do people consider the coach to be the missing piece? Normally, the coach is there and then they find the pieces.
In Warzycha's case, he started with 90% of the puzzle and subsequently let most of them leave for one stupid reason or another.
There were so many years from approx 1998-2004 when we were just "one or two pieces away" that it was frustrating. 97-99 saw us in the Eastern Conference Finals. That last game of 99 was just tremendously frustrating. 2000 was sort of the exception. 2001 saw us back in the playoffs and with a coaching change, I think a lot of people were just happy to be in the playoffs. 2002 saw us back in the ECF and one game away from MLS Cup. 2004 was just a huge erasure from memory. Missing the playoffs twice in seven years and in the conference finals four of those seven? If you look at it THAT way, it wasn't a bad run.
Which is probably the same reasoning the FO is using to hold on to RW. 3 years of playoffs, a supporters shield and a Open Cup Final. On paper it looks good as a highlights reel. Unfortunately, we all know each year our result has progressively went down.
but for real, instead of saying "Fire Warzycha... for somebody better!" it means nothing unless that "somebody better" is realistically a possibility. Not enough candidates in this thread (i haven't read all 29 pages, admittedly
I started a new coach thread because this thread was filled with pages of bickering or complaints. There are suggestions in there.
Next Coach Thread A couple of the favorites, Schelotto and Porter, have already been taken. Richie Williams seems to be a popular name and there are plenty of other realistic suggestions.
I am going to stick my head out and say that, I don't think the Crew are in the market for experienced coaches - whether at MLS or any other professional level. My guess is that if RW was sacked they would roll the dice on an up and coming young head coach. No idea who. The alternatives are: spend some cash on an experienced MLS coach. Spend some cash and roll the dice on an experienced non-MLS (read foreign based coach), or promote from within.
I don't see the FO or HSG looking outside the club, quite frankly. If RW is shitcanned it'll be Bliss or Lapper running the show.
Cause the last time we spent some money on an MLS experienced coach it really bit us in the arse... sure his departure was kind of a pain in the ass and year one and two were a little rocky, but we progressed forward every year. And dont bring up point totals in a year where we had more points available.