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Better planning: Last season, it seems like the USA as a whole did not have a very good planning system and there were not many threads for the planning of games. If elected, I would look at getting more people involved in the planning, taking more opinions, and simply using more charts and strict data base approaches, hopefully resulting in better success than last season’s U21 team.

Haha - so I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea from my irreverent speech. I went back and counted - there are 25 game threads I've made in my time and one thread to talk about the potential game change to SB.

There are spreadsheets in (I think) every one that details the roster update that week, the best call ups available, and opponent scouting. I've done this in hopes that it would remove some of the intimidation that folks might have about participating in game planning by having as much info available as possible without needing to search it out. I remember being new to NT goings on and feeling intimidated to post anything for fear of not understanding the context of what's going on and looking like a goof. So I've tried to remove those kinds if information barriers as well as I can with a lot of details.

But you are right, EWB, there is often not a lot of replies to those posts for whatever reason (never saw any from you ;)). I figure most people don't want to invest the time to get involved in the details (it is a whole other time commitment to the game to knowledgably follow the NTs) and are fine to just know that things are in good hands. I would LOVE more participation though! The more eyes on the planning the better informed decision-making will be. If you have new ideas that would be worth talking about. But what you propose here I don't see as any different than what I've been doing.

Trick Question.

In any instance of this question the user is jfarb in disguise and the "remarkable prospect that he assures you will lead to the USA U21 winning Gold" is none other than 35 year old Ricky Logsdon on stilts. So the only possible answer is..

2. A terrible haircut combined with a freakishly unstylish head

Youre welcome candidates.

Logsdon! <3

No offense to any of you other candidates but fewmit will win and should win.

You others need more experience with the offsite and get yourself a scouting job or something. It feels sweet to get an 18 y/o that you assist in molding into a key U21 guy. Study fewmit. He's not the greatest manager in US history but he's more than capable and what he does is what all of you need to realize is what you must do as a NT coach.

That is all. Remember oriolekid S26!

This thread is for speeches only, one per candidate

Just a reminder to everyone that's posting in the speech thread.

Haha yeah i dont have any replies on there, partially because i had been very busy, but plenty of time has opened up now for me. I promise i will be getting much more involved on the offsite. As you probably know i am very active on this site and participate in the forums quite frequently. I plan on that being the case on the offsite too so I can not only help you and others with the planning and the team overall but also to gain more experience. Ill bbmail if i have any ideas that will help ;) thanks for the reply.

Very true on all your points and I agree that we cannot force more people to participate but i good step for both you and I would be for us personally make that jump and try to help out more. Baby steps you know? even with you observing, that is a good thing because you can use what you observe for future reference and then once you feel comfortable adding on ideas, you could be a key piece to our success thanks for the reply.

Thanks for the support ;) BTW your SF is starting to look pretty nice that i got from you (Rudolph Dennison). I hope he can make the U21 team so i dont let you down

Just kidding. This man has my full support. My legions of supporters that may or may not exist, please vote for him.

For all you pups out there. The throne is not won with likeability, or qualification. It is won with $$$, and paying off the more powerful and respected managers out there. Like 600k worth of $$$.

Last edited by oriolekid at 6/12/2013 6:50:09 PM

hahaha you are quite a silly manager aren't you?

I took my advice and studied the two best NT coaches in US history. Now I have become one in the same with them.

They were both a little off.