National team jobs are inherently crappy

by HCE, Tuesday, July 07, 2026, 08:28 (14 days ago) @ MTIrish

Even the best of them put managers in charge of a player pool recruited and trained by other people for the telos of a three game regular season played with the entire world watching. If you're lucky, you might do well enough to earn a second World Cup cycle, after which you'll probably get fired anyway for doing worse than you did the first time. They're all poisoned chalices.

That's not to say that our youth system isn't terrible--it is, and I'll defer to you on the specifics--but I suspect that any prospective USMNT manager will look much harder at the immediate player pool than at the U-15s and below.