It's a complicated history with FC Dallas. Moving to Frisco actually saved them from relocating but it also trapped them in the suburban exile purgatory you mentioned. They went cheap when they were looking to build and that's just their SOP. I think I saw a stat that in recent years they have had about $25 million selling players and have only reinvested like $11 million. I used to make several games a year, but I couldn't keep supporting such cheap ownership when new teams were and are having fantastic success making a name for themselves in other markets.
Call me crazy, I think England takes it today. Germany have been poor and their group is looking like it was a paper tiger with both Portugal and France bowing out early.
Yep, that's the only way this happens and I still don't believe Dame's preferred destination is going to be Dallas. If this does happen, I'd like to see Dallas get involved to get some draft capital, though.
Man...I had totally blocked this from my memory. Just infuriating. The cascade effect from this moment really hurt us. If that goal would have counted, we could have rotated the squad for the third match against Algeria and then been way fresher for the knockout stage. Really feel like we would have beaten Ghana if we were a little more rested.
I’m a lot bigger fan of this move than the coach. Seems a little more outside the box with higher upside. I think Kidd is very much the weak link though.
A truly awful decision when they had to hit on this. Just mind-blowing all around. A below .500 coach is the guy we’re counting on to keep us competitive for years to come so Luka doesn’t leave? This is the best they could do?
It's just weird because he had two years left on his deal. It's one thing if he "retires" for a year, but it just seems odd that the Mavs would let him walk like that and not demand some type of compensation from the next team.
I think KP is staying and hopefully the new regime can find a way to get the most out of him. He still averaged 20 per game and had a 20 PER. Like MacMahon also said in the podcast, the Clips were probably the worst possible matchup for him. If they had played the Blazers, for example, it's likely he has a pretty good series and we're not all desperate to run him out of town. I just don't think they have a choice because you cannot sell him this low right now.
It’s obvious that there has been very real tension and dysfunction in the front office so the past 20 years are kind of irrelevant. They simply have not improved the roster around a top 5 player and, if you believe MacMahon, had an ass hole coach who rubbed that player the wrong way. It’s okay to say you were a fan of Carlisle but that he also needed to go. Anyone is going to pick Luka over Carlisle 10 times out of 10.
pretty good episode with MacMahon that was recorded before Carlisle left. Definitely sheds some light on the Carlisle-Luka dynamic and how it was fairly rocky.