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Message: [QUOTE="businesslawyer, post: 3187183, member: 55"] We learned nothing from last night. You can't play it as a positive given how lowly the opponent was, but you also can't pull negatives from 4-0 wins. If we flame out in the tournament I will have no problem turning on Berhalter, but I would add this: if you look at who is on the roster and the few realistic candidates who could be but aren't, this player pool is just not as good as it was 8 or even 4 years ago. It's just not. Yes, we have 4 young players playing regularly in top leagues (2, and maybe now 3, of whom can't play), but beyond that the pool is just not as good. You can make your case that we'd be better off with Sargent -- personally, as bad a year as he had in Germany I'd still take Bobby Woods on our roster until he proves he can't help us -- but these guys aren't game changers. Neither are all the young people who got to Europe early and we had to listen to Wisky and others rave about -- the CCVs and the Greens and the Hyndmans and the Parks and the Zalalems who just aren't accomplishing anything. The bottom line is that our player pool, for whatever reason, is not what it was. Would I rather Tata Martinez was our coach? Heck yes. But the bigger problem is the depth of our player pool is not moving forward even as we've produced a small number of younger players having real success in Europe. [/QUOTE]