So your telling me there's another world wide search going on right now!?!? spoiler: Pat Noonan gets the job.
Unfortunately, we don't get to VOTE for the manager. McKenzie didn't win the VOTE for rookie of the year. There is still time to VOTE for goal of the year. *sorry mods, my keyboard seems to have issues with fonts today.
Well, you certainly can't fire the 4th best Coach in the league, right? Voting Results NomineePlayer VoteClub VoteMedia Vote Gerardo "Tata" Martino (ATL)46.92%29.91%21.32%Bob Bradley (LAFC)20.53%14.95%31.53%Peter Vermes (SKC)6.16%15.89%10.81%Jim Curtin (PHI)3.81%13.08%7.51%Chris Armas (RBNY)5.87%3.74%13.81% https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2018...erardo-tata-martino-named-2018-mls-coach-year
I keep hearing that Jimbo is a player's coach and how much they love him...yet he got the lowest percentage of the player votes of the 4 on that list.
It technically wouldn't be a firing..........it would just be letting Curtin's current contract run out.
Andy Warhol approves. 23 teams in the league. 1 of which is the Union. 1 divided by 23 equals 0.0435, or 4.35%. Jim received 3.81% of the player votes, which is less than 4.35%. Does that mean that not every Union player voted for him?
I did that math too and have the notion that the coaches on the rest of the list may all have ~3% which is just most players voting for their own manager. I guess Curtin stumbled in on the strength of the club vote whatever that is. Would be nice if they shared the whole list.
Playing a Jim Curtin team was a guaranteed 3 points for most of the spring and the last month of season, and you didn't have to spend too much brain power figuring out what his strategy would be.
I guess from that perspective, teams don’t spend as much time on film prework and get to knock off early so he’d be popular with those EC multiple game teams.
I guess this means that Jim Curtin is coming back next season: pic.twitter.com/uy9yc5j8pV— Kevin Kinkead (@Kevin_Kinkead) November 15, 2018
Isn't Curtin's contract until the end of the MLS season though? So technically his contract doesn't expire until AFTER MLS Cup......
I think that a lot of people in the league give Curtin credit for leading a team that was below average on paper to a 19-16-5 overall record. An increasingly popular stat in sports is WAR (Wins Above Replacement). If you assume that this was a below-average team (and I believe that it was), then Curtin had a high WAR this season. Stated differently, what should have been this team's record this season in the 40 games that it played?
I'm going to go ahead and disagree. "A lot of people", here anyway, were saying this looks like a team challenging for the last playoff spot. We finished in the last playoff spot. So we were exactly who we thought we were. If the U had won out and grabbed 3rd, that feels different. That would be WAR. Would any other manager had his team ready for the USOC final (pick whichever one you want) and they would have had their first trophy? Could any other manager had this "greatest Union team of all time" ready for the NYC playoff game? I mean, whether you think he's good or not, he absolutely was a failure when it was crunch time. Season on the line and his team came out scared and flat. Trophy on the line and they got abused by a mediocre Houston team. This is a guy with a trophy available subbed OUT his franchise keeper so the PK "specialist" could come in instead of any other player during extra time. There's no point laying out these wishy washy arguments that only James T Curtin could have got these amazing results from this motley band of soccerballers. https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/2017-18-offseason-player-movement-rumors.2076768/page-36
https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/20...movement-rumors.2076768/page-36#post-36364843 not a bad prediction/rant.
Pretty spot on. Wasn’t there a prediction thread? I’ve done the crystal ball one before but couldn’t find it for this season. Maybe I’m too ambivalent?