The mother of all necro-bumps! The article was mainly about Columbus, but other interesting rumblings about other clubs and their coaches. http://www.socceramerica.com/article/54475/columbus-is-racking-up-coaching-candidates.html
It's strange to arrive at this board and see a long thread that I started but don't remember starting. At any rate, yeah -- this is gonna be one hell of a coaching carousel.
As a Rapids fan I feel for the suffering of Dallas fans and I'm willing to be generous and let them have their coach from our staff back. Your 2014 Dallas head coach, Dave Dir!
Rennie is really good at x's and o's, but I'm not sure he's a good player manager. He did a great job in Cleveland and Cary where there's never a lot of roster continuity. The big year in Cary (2010), I think we had 32 or 33 players under contract by the time we were pulling up players on loan (Tommy Heinemann) from USL-D3 after their season had ended. In the end, the RailHawks got really good results, but I think there was a lot of butthurt in the locker room. It's got to be tough to being a starter for a winning team and knowing the coach is going out and bringing in new players to start on an almost weekly basis. When you get to the top of the food chain (MLS in this case), there tends to be a lot more roster stability, and a manager has to be able to get the players on board. Can any of the Vancouver fans speak to any of this from your perspective?
Yes, that seems to be his weakness, but he should get another season at least. Think Sigi at Columbus. Some things take time. Not that I believe he will get another season.
Let see if we got all of this: Crew have interviewed/discussed the head coaching job with: Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Brad Friedel, Gregg Berhalter, Jesse Marsch, Tab Ramos, Richie Williams and Frank Yallop and would like to with Bob Bradley. Bliss still in mix too. NYCFC has interviewed Guillermo Barros Schelotto and Jason Kreis FC Dallas has Tab Ramos high on their list and rumors have them making a play on Oscar Peraja Chicago rumors are that Klopas might be let go for Jesse Marsch or Bob Bradley Whitecaps might go for Frank Yallop. Sigi? Hackworth? Olsen? Did I miss any?
Just curious, other than Frank Yallop himself, has any other individual(s) coached the same MLS team(s) over multiple stints?
I don't think so. And I'm not quite sure you can count Quakes 3.0 was the same as 2.0. I do think a few assistants were interim for the same team more than once (Haslett in Chicago for example).
Interesting that Gary Smith is currently not working as a coach and despite having won MLS Cup his name isn't even on the radar.
I only agree with you because his replacement in San Jose (the first time) is still on the job in Houston. If Kinnear wasn't still employed by the same franchise, I'd probably go the other way.
There have been several interesting one and done MLS coaches. David Dir and Steve Nicol both had some success, but never got another top job. Bob Gansler only got the one shot, though one of his KC players had him as an assistant coach later on.
Dave Sarachan....................who actually won trophies with the Fire has yet to get another opportunity. What did he win, a Supporter's Shield and two US Open Cups? Went to at least one MLS Cup final if I can remember. Actually, if we tabulated the trophy haul of clubs with Dave Sarachan around..................it must be ridiculous.That guy has been on winning staffs in DC, Chicago, and LA, and was on Bradley's staff with the USMNT in the 2002 era. Oh, and of course at UVA with Arena................... Why did he never get a second chance? Did he not want one?
He's always been a bit of a Riker. I think he and Bruce work extremely well together, and their families are very close as well.
By the way, a little info on the FCD job. Former FCD player Brian Haynes is interested in the job: http://soccerblog.dallasnews.com/2013/10/brian-haynes-would-like-to-talk-to-fc-dallas.html/ And of course there's the scuttlebutt about FCD bringing Pareja back from Colorado: http://soccerblog.dallasnews.com/2013/10/is-fcd-working-on-the-return-of-pareja.html/ Buzz does say this.................... If Ridge had been the sole source of this information I’d probably let it ride as a simple rumor, but this is now the third time in the last week it’s either been suggested to me as “in the works” or as a potential idea. So, I’m starting to smell the faint hint of smoke…
Dallas has been mentioned as a place for Smith http://soccerblog.dallasnews.com/2013/10/some-other-names-to-consider-for-fcds-coaching-gig.html/
Bruce Arena, Sigi Schmid, Bob Bradley seem to be in demand. Many early MLS coaches are old. Another cohort of early MLS coaches only fleetingly - if at all - played the game professionally. I don't think that it's so much that people are avoiding early MLS coaches than it's that there are far more options available today than there used to be. In 1996 Bruce Arena left a comfy job for life at Virginia for the risky world of MLS - which might not last more than a season or two. In 2013 Caleb Porter left Akron for MLS, but perhaps he might have chosen otherwise 17 years prior. We've seen that during all three women's pro leagues. The coaches you tend to get when launching a risky sports league are a mixed bag of foreign carpetbaggers, coaches between or about to be between jobs (Marcia McDermott), coaches that never seem to stay anywhere for long (Omid Namazi), and coaches with nowhere else to go (Ron Newman). Some turn out to be quality, others are quickly cycled through. As the retirement of Ramiro Corrales is imminent, we now have an entire generation of former MLS players whose playing careers are over. If you pull out the USL and MLS organization media guides from 1999 and list the technical staffs of all the teams, you'll find very little in the way of professional playing experience above the level of semi-pro ball. Today, I'd wager that maybe more than half the technical staffs of PDL through MLS have dressed for an MLS game during their playing careers. And we're also seeing it throughout Divison I men and women's soccer, too.
The potential Rapids generosity vis-a-vis the Dallas coaching gig knows no bounds, what with y'all already giving them Clavijo as coach-in-waiting.