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Message: [QUOTE="Sleepy, post: 4678480, member: 1248"] I'll be completely honest-I'm not a Greg Berhalter fan at all. However, it would be unfair to say he's a lousy coach. He's just a thoroughly mediocre coach, who got the job through pure nepotism + the incestuous US Soccer/MLS relationship, and who retained the job through pure incompetence/laziness of the same organization. It's on him to prove that he can elevate the talent level that this team has just displayed and make them better(I'd love to see it happen, but I'm not hopeful). His supporters like to point to the fact that he won the Nations League, Gold Cup, and made it to the knockouts in the World Cup-I'd say that's the minimum level of achievement necessary, not something to be praised; the interim-interim coach/manager just won the Nations League in a MUCH more impressive fashion, and is a strong favorite to do the same next month with the Gold Cup. But his overall coaching record isn't lousy-it's mediocre. It's like the way the Premier League, the NFL, NBA, etc. always seem to just recycle coaches; these organizations don't like to take risks, so they'd rather be mediocre with a known mediocre coach than reach for excellence and fail. Like in IT, the saying was something like "nobody ever got fired for buying Intel/IBM/Dell, etc." But all those brands/companies have gone through a downturn, and decision-makers who can't recognize that WILL get fired for making those choices. [/QUOTE]