Jay Heaps after 5 years: still the right guy for the job?

Before Heaps goes, I want new blood choosing the new coach. This franchise is in a rut and it's not just the coach. If the same people keep making the decisions we are going to keep getting the same results.

 

Bob's not selling the team.

 

But why waste a half season as a lame duck when, at least in some cases, the "new coach bounce" can revive a team and give it new life? Yes, it's an uphill battle, but they should make a move now, especially if they realize a change is needed at the end of the season.

 

Probably because no proven manager with any kind of positive resume would agree to take on the job without getting the kind of administrative power that the Krafts would never agree to. And the chances of them finding a managerial equivalent of Tom Brady are astronomically small. That's why.

 

I suspect any serious coach and sporting director candidates would insist the Revs have to get a USL B team up and running, which the Krafts won't do, which means we get someone just happy to get the gig.

 

I think we confuse the meaning of "General Manager" with what it means in soccer terms and what it means in other sports.
The GM is a business management position in soccer, not a player management position.
I suppose the could change the job title, which might make it clear that Burns (and the guys before him) doesn't have much say in player selection matters.

 

I heard LAFC just signed Bob Bradley. This really upsets me.

 

https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2017/07/27/lafc-hire-bob-bradley-first-head-coach-club-history

The fact that LAG and LA2 hired high-profile coaches on the same day can NOT be a coincidence...

 

Bob Bradley will sign on with a team that doesn't even exist yet. Sigi will run LAG. Either the Krafts change policy and practice, or the Revs will have forfeited any reason for the fans to continue to support this mess

 

To hear of the moves the LA teams are making, while the Revs just Burn season after season away, is painful beyond belief. Although I no longer have a season ticket, I still spent hundreds of dollars bringing friends to a few key games this year........ Unless there is a drastic and new found respect for actually giving a damn by the ownership this next year, I will buy a ticket no more forever........ This chump is chumped out.

 

Technically Speaking: Should Heaps be Sacked?
By Rick Sewall
July 27, 2017
NE Soccer Today

Money quote:

 

Just passing this on...

An actual quote from Jay Heaps this week: "Anytime you play a team -- I think we've got to give them our best." #NERevs

— Dan Shulman (@DanielRShulman) July 28, 2017

 

That's the kind of brilliant insight you'd expect from a cerebral guy like Heaps. I hear he went to Dook! That remids me of the kind of expert commentary you might hear on the Daytona 500 telecast. "The key here is, the faster the car goes around the track, the more likely it is to win the race."

 

I am not so sure of this.

I have noted a couple of times from what I have watched from my seats and on TV. Heaps may appear to get along with SOME of the players - but are they the RIGHT players.

I see him yell stuff at Lee, and Lee doesn't look like he is listening or doesn't do it - one reporter said she heard Jay tell Lee to do x, and clearly Lee was not doing x at all after this.

Also, Kamara sulked off and sat far away from bench. Tierney getting subbed doesn't look happy.

Being a manager is a hard job and I am not sure sure that Heaps has the chops, credentials, or buy in from the players.

At The NY game, I saw Marsch call Sascha over, gave him a piece of paper with instructions on it. Sascha listened, and ran over to all the guys he was supposed to and told/showed them what Marsch was trying to get across. That is a situation when the players believe and trust in the coach.

Remember, Heaps could do nothing - in walks Jones, and Jones transforms the team. the players listen to Jones on the field (Jones fixes Soares poor decisions, and Gonsalves poor positioning), at practice, Jones called the player meeting. That is what you want from our coach, but Heaps was clearly a bystander during the Jones time.

You may hate Arena, but he came in and sorted the psyche of the players, brought clear stability, and a winning attitude from JK. Heaps feels like our JK.

Also, per my post in the Roster thread - Heaps does not seem to be organized. He may be "committed" - but that doesn't mean he is doing the right job to lead this team to MLS Cup and to attract, find, and sign the right level and mix of players to do so.

In my book, these don't hold water as reasons to keep him.

As for the rest of the article, the author brings up some amazing points that many of us on this board have been asking highlighting for the last years SINCE we got Jones in a coin flip (and before).

 

Some interesting comments from other supporters on hows Heaps is using Agudelo, what is wrong with the Revs, and who is to blame in the US Nats N&A thread on MLS players for Nats.

https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/mls-flavors-of-the-week-2017-edition.2038152/page-97

 

Slow day... I've been meaning to ask, does anyone find the title of this thread to be a bit off?

Should be

Jay Heaps after 5 years: still the wrong guy for the job. [period, no question mark]

 

Good article.

http://www.espnfc.us/club/new-engla...ion-but-standing-still-is-no-longer-an-option

 

IMO.it's hard for a coach to not loose the confidence of the players when they are doing as poorly as they are.

Also, unless there is a truly unexpected reversal of things over the last third of the season I don't see how the Heaps can possibly stay on as Head Coach

FWIW, I do NOT want Carlos Llamosa to take over from Heaps