Give Tab the keys and everyone above him can just eat some humility while Tab goes to work.

The guy knows all the young guys inside and out. He ran Klinnsmann's training sessions in 2014. He knows what he's doing. Maybe he's not the 10 year guy, but he sure as hell knows how to get them to Qatar.

Won't happen, though. US Soccer would have to admit they were wrong. This is going to be Berhalter's cycle, and that's the way it is.

then he can buzz off. I'm always going to find that decision to be idiotic. The whole organization needs to be rebuilt from scratch.

Not sure that was Tab, though. He certainly may have agreed with it. Tab Ramos was the one that was pushing for small sided play, though. That I do know.

The furor over the school->birth year change was and is overblown. It was always that way until FIFA temporarily switched it back in the 1980s (for two years), and we just refused to change it back until 2016. And I'm a parent who was affected by this, as my son is one birth year older than most of his classmates and was caught in a 'trap' year in 8th grade as a result.

Rec soccer doesn't have to comply with USSF guidelines in this respect, so the bigger impact was to club/DA/ODP soccer. The only countries that were still on school year in the top 100 of FIFA were the US and Canada.

and I think it was totally ridiculous as well. I had two kids impacted (one good and one bad). The problem was in the implementation. They should not have broken up the teams that already existed. They could have said "the new birth year rules begins with U8" and left everyone else alone. Worse yet, my daughter gets put in the "2007 younger" group when she does ODP and her teammate gets put in the "2007 older" group. So we split these kids up by grade anyway. So stupid.

That said, I can forgive Tab if we get rid of Gregg.

But it's US Soccer. I don't even have a referee grade anymore. Why? Apparently they wanted to match it up with how they're classifying coaches now.

The age grouping doesn't affect school soccer, so for the high school kids it was really just the trap year issue (and losing teammates). Clubs have to comply with USSF, so that was unavoidable.

leagues. It is detrimental to how things are broken up at the school level, which is where the overwhelming majority of kids will wind up playing. If you're good enough to compete at a national or near-national level, fine, adhere to birth year. Otherwise school year should apply.

As bunched up as we were on the defensive end all night, as poorly as we broke out once we gained possession, and as poorly as we possessed it once we had it, you would think some of this stuff would be straight forward to review and work to fix. Guys know how to pass the ball. They've known how to pass the ball since they were 8 years old. I think you're just leading me to think, yes it truly is this simple. We're a mess. We have a mess organization. We have a mess coach. He doesn't know how to clean the mess. And he's messing up our players.

I really think that he thinks he's back in Columbus, and he just has to motivate the guys more.

Every single one of these games count Gregggggg

You can't suffer slumps like the MLS seasons he's accustomed to. Each game means a great deal.