2017 Lamar Hunt US Open Cup [R]

The question is, would Kraft replace Heaps with someone better? I see no evidence for that. Likely replacements: Soehn, Llamosa, Ralston (if he takes it), Noonan (if he takes it), or Shalrie Joseph. Or maybe a local college coach or a recently fired head coach from around MLS. I don't think a top tier coach like Schmid or Bradley bothers with the Revs under Kraft's ownership.

 

The Revs and FCC would meet in the semis. Not sure how they'd sort out home field for that, but you'd have to think they'd want it in Cincinnati.

To be fair, the Harvard games are a small-scale version of what FCC is doing. You can see where we could have that if they could just figure it out.

 

Either Josh Smith left Diego hanging in that image - or it's badly photoshopped, not sure. They look like action figure poses.

 

I'm watching the Breakers game at Jordan Field and you can actually see that the stadium has twice the number of port-a-potties they had for the Open Cup match. Who thought 6 would be enough to handle 2500+ fans (added by alcohol)?

 

Revs stagger to USOC finals. Heaps is hailed by B&B as a footballing genius. Our ending the season a touchdown away from the playoffs is all forgiven and forgotten. Heaps is resigned to a New 5 Year Plan................The future shines bright, friends.

 

Revs stagger to USOC finals. Heaps is hailed by B&B as a footballing genius. Our ending the season a touchdown away from the playoffs is all forgiven and forgotten. Heaps is resigned to a New 5 Year Plan................The future shines bright, friends.

 

It's scary to think about how true this is. I'm starting to think this is an Open Cup or bust season, because I'm starting to give up on playoff hopes. But then again, this scenario scares me...

 

Sadly more realistic than we want to admit.
It would be hard to actively root against the revs in the USOC but I may have to. They need a blatant failure to jar the powers that be awake.

 

Still rooting for a deep USOC run despite that. Nothing jars the Krafts. Maybe bad press, but they've proven immune to bad results.

 

But being in the USOC final 4 will be enough to save Heaps' job. I can just hear Burns now, making his usual apathetic excuses to keep an incompetent manager in his job for yet another year...

 

But if it's not the USOC, it'll just be some other excuse. The Krafts don't care about the USOC. None of them will be at the game next week even though it's a few miles from their homes. They don't care. That's why Burns and Heaps will stay.

Actually, winning the USOC might shake their job security. The Krafts probably don't want the hassle of those extra CCL games. You've got to fill out your roster for that, pay for travel and schedule/host extra games. And if they pull a Joe Public now, the PR backlash will be severe (plus it might put them afoul of Don Garber for embarrassing the league). Is Kraft going to trust the Wonder Twins with that kind of responsibility?

 

If they win the USOC and make it to the CCL, they'll just pull the status quo and say, "We tried, but it's hard." I mean, no other team has to deal withthe fixture congestion that we have, and to play nonleague games so early in the season in the cold weather, no one deals with that.

 

This will be much more appealing. Zero interest in the ASG sans revs.

 

Domestic cup specialists that play attractive soccer sometimes. Always in the hunt for the league but almost never win it. SKC is the Arsenal of MLS.

 

Topeka Benfica have two more MLS Cups than we do. Just sayin...

 

Making comparisons between EPL and MLS clubs is just silly.