(05-20-2021 11:25 AM)THUNDERStruck73 Wrote:  

(05-20-2021 09:23 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(05-20-2021 08:50 AM)THUNDERStruck73 Wrote:  

(05-19-2021 11:15 PM)herdthatandrew Wrote:  

(05-19-2021 06:59 PM)rileylives Wrote:  If the US Men's national team came calling, it would be hard for coach Grassie to turn that down.

But his salary will now be 180,000 a year, I don't see another power team coming way over that.

So his destiny would either be a MLS coaching opportunity or the US Men's national team.

Regardless, coach has established himself as a Marshall legend. I can actually see us renaming that field as the Chris Grassie Veterans Memorial Park, or something to that effect.

Uhhh, you don't get the USMNT gig by winning one college cup... Coach Grassie is the man but you don't hire a college coach with no professional coaching experience as the National team coach. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Uhhhh.... Steve Sampson ring a bell, new guy? Or Bruce Arena? (He coached an MLS team for less than two years before being handed the reins of the USMNT).

Sampson wnet 64-19-19 and won a title at Santa Clara. If you look back in history, he wasn’t a great hire, and his World Cup was a disaster. Arena won 5 titles at Virginia, and had a record of 295-58-32 while there for 18 years. I have the upmost respect for Grassie and what he has done, but he isn’t even on the national radar at the moment. I doubt most soccer fans in America would even recognize his name, let alone where he coaches. Over time that may change.

The US also currently has a coach, and while I didn’t agree with the guy we chose, he has done nothing to concern me up to this point. We have a really good wave of young talent coming up, and I think we can be competitive at the next World Cup, with a real shot at a quality finish when it comes to the US in 2028. Maybe if the wheels fall off, we will need a new coach in 3 years, and Grassie’s name may be in the conversation at that point.

Except failing to qualify for the World Cup?

Unless you know something I don't, our current coach had nothing to do with the World Cup failure in 2018.