Make of it what you will, there are some very interesting comments in this piece by Craig Merz from February of 2000, right after Jim Smith came on board. http://www.dispatch.com/news/sports99/CREW99/crew0220.html
"Jim's more knowledgable about soccer than he lets on." Outstanding. Ya know, only in an up and coming league, or a starter league, can you have a GM hired who really doesn't know much at all about the game. Could you imagine if the Yankees, or Bulls or some team just hired a business guy off the street and gave him the title of GM? But I guess with some coaches takinbg on the responsibility of coach and GM in other sports this isn't that odd. The question is whether or not theat relationship remains the same with Andrulis making all the decisions and then just clearing them with Smith. And if so, is Andrulis the man that we actually want with all that responsibility? Half the time it seems he can't even get a starting 11 right.