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I agree with demonrail, in the NBA its the same problem the LA Clippers have where coach is also the GM.. too much power not enough accountability..

As to WC, i simply disagree that we did "better than expected".. i don't mean results or stats wise, yes we were exactly where we should have been, rather again im talking about the eye/smell test. Again at least under Bradley in 2010 US had a defensive identity and a sense of team personality and cohesion, our 2014 WC often looked lost and disorganized, especially on the defensive side.. THAT was previously our bread and butter so it seems that Jurgen has taken a step backwards and i blame that on all his roster changes. He said he is trying to create a certain kind of performance based accountability where guys make the 23 based on performance BUT it LOOKS like too many guys aren't buying into it and i think demonrail nailed it with the "what has Klinsmann really done anyway?" explanation. He is doing radical things with the team but doesn't seem to have 100% pkayer support..

Also i know its just sour grapes on my part as a fan but it also clearly looked like the team chemistry suffered from snubbing Donovan for essentially nothing but a personal quarrel which it looked like much of the team resented. Its like being a teacher, you can have all these radical and revolutionary ideas but if you don't KNOW your students, if you haven't established a solid rapport and relationship, none of it is worth shit until then.. so maybe Jurgen rocked the boat too soon after the successes in 2011-13? The players were clearly starting to gel and build chemistry both with Klinsmann and his system until he tweaked it too rapidly in prep for the world cup. Maybe Klinsmann overthought it?? Again with teacher annalogy, Tharp and Dalton describe an "effective pedagogy" as being built principally on teacher-student creating together, not a top down approach. So possibly Jurgen needed to focus more on working with where his players were AT rather than thinking too far ahead about where he wanted them to be? Should have built his strategies around what was currently working well..