Actually that was Ben Stiller’s Gaylord Focker in “Meet the Parents”

I read The Beckham Experiment last week, and the story had a cautionary tale for European coaches who are not used to the way that MLS does things in terms of roster limitations, salary cap. Granted Grant Wahl writes that Ruud Gullit never really put in the work to understand the MLS instead was trying to porting Europeans ways to the American game. As a counterpoint, Hans Backe has done well and there are probably other coaches that might have adapted, but this is something to take notice it when looking overseas.

Jose Mourinho wouldn’t have been able to win much more than the Open Cup with our roster this season. Even if Favre comes in and gets the most out of our players on gameday, improves their skills, fitness, and intelligence in training, and is popular with the media and in the stands, we still have big issues off the field.

I don’t care if the next coach is a name that I recognize or not. I just want us to hire the right guy for the job. Payne’s comments about Kasper sticking around mean that we’ll still be going in the wrong direction, but perhaps a strong personality as our head coach can wrest some of the control away. A foreign coach will have contacts that Kasper doesn’t, and that means access to different (hopefully better) player sources. When I see guys like Juninho playing for LA, or Marvin Chavez in Dallas (how in the world did we not offer him a deal on the spot after our games against Marathon in the CCL? He terrorized us! It upsets me every time I think about it), and then I look at our inability to sign effective young foreign players, I want to bang my head against a wall. A new coach might be able to do the hard part of Kasper’s job for him, which would boost our chances of actually being good again.