I asked myself the same question during the first half yesterday. At some point, will AEG give him a chance to coach out the season as interim coach?
Re: here's a question for you Coaching the Olympic team. I'd be very surprised if he was available prior to the Olympics. And frankly, even when he is available, I'd rather not have him. He's a decent coach, but I don't see him winning MLS Cup in a division with Bob Bradley. -Digital
Re: Re: here's a question for you Sadly, I think just making the playoffs is what we're after here. MLS Cup??? What's that?....
Re: Re: Re: here's a question for you I'd be happy with coming out of this season with a .250 win/loss record. but that doesnt seem likely either.
I think Mooch is a good guy. Even if I hadn't formed an impression of him, that fact that he's one of the coaches (along with Bradley) that Arena praises highly and repeatedly, says a lot. That said, I have no sense what-so-ever if Myernick would be interested in giving up the Olympic spot. I suspect DCU would pay a lot better. Myernick inherited a disaster in Denver (remember, the Denver Foxes in the A-league were probably a better team than Houghton's Rapids and drew more fans too). Myernick built up a talent base, got them to an MLS cup, they were always competitive. We could do a lot worse than Myernick.
Who the hell would want to coach DC United? Arena=The Man Wrongen=Fired Hudson=Failure I still think we are cursed for getting Chris Albright.
I figured it out! It's not the curse of Chris Albright. It's the curse of the Fort Lauderdale Strikers.
Dam, forgot about that, then I don't think anyone should hold out any hope that Hudson will get fired.
I think the Rongen situation is somewhat different than Hudsons. Regardless of what you think of Rongen... 1. He won an MLS Cup with DCU. Even if you think he's incompetent (ala Joe Altobelli of the Orioles--a guy regarded as pretty dumb who won a World Series after Earl Weaver retired using Weaver's team but being less abrasive than the "little genius"), winning the big one wins you some grace time. 2. He then had a failing year with the veterans of the Championship team. The basic assumption there was: these guys have won before, we owe them a year together to see if they can regain the winning style again. 3. He then remade the team in his vision (dumping the players to create cap room for a year or two, drafting Nelsen, Quaranta, Lisi, Ziadie, trading for Ammann, ATC, etc.). And lost. It really didn't make a lot of sense to fire him mid-season (b/c there was always hope that the youngsters might grow, play better defense). Plus, it wouldn't have been a very classy thing to do. And the candidates that Payne would have wanted to pursue weren't available then (Ellinger, Sarachan, Gough). Ironically, as someone pointed out in another thread, if Rongen had been kept for 2002, it's hypothetically possible that DCU could have pursued Bradley (not likely) and would have been a very serious candidate for Sarachan.