Most excellent points. Put aside nationalism: what loyalty does he have to the USMNT? I don’t think his youth club was part of the DA, and he played his pivotal underage years for a club in Mexico.

Arena is not the USMNT coach.

Not enough stars. This needs more Lovren.

4. The “Race issues are really just class issues” guy.

‘Tis better to ask for forgiveness than beg for permission...

Brilliant. Just brilliant.

Mao you’ve done it

Mike Munoz is a gem.

The kids want to be Ronaldo, Messi or Pulisic for that matter. The national team is fun and all but plays so infrequently that they don’t register much in the psyche of the 12 year old kid who is listening to the Manchester City match in the car on the way to his travel soccer game.

Amen.

I’m thinking the mark is the media buyer that sees the click count and advertises on the “Language Professors Hate Him” site. It is a totally strange fuck-around.

Which, you know, probably triggers the termination clause in his contract for cause.

Fair. My outrage+the 97 beers I had last night turned me into a yahoo! message board commenter. All discretion was lost. Apologies.

It doesn’t help.

Doesn’t matter. Reprehensible college football program still plays college football.

The last sentence should read:

Damn it!

He had a choice.

There are no other thoughts on the subject.

I am. Penn State still plays college football.