This club can’t handle any sort of prosperity.
Can't let the local basketball club beat them at coach drama shrouded in mystery and innuendo.
I would believe almost anything I was told that Bruce Arena did. He's not quite in the "Tyson Zone", but would I believe that he said something
incredibly impolitic, even racially abusive? Sure. Hit a player? Sure. Cursed out his superiors? Sure. He's 71, old people sometimes lose impulse control and/or verbal filters. But the fact that there's no police involvement rules out stories beyond a certain level of crazy. The lack of leaks with specifics strongly suggests it's not the usual "conduct, not results, getting a coach fired" - like the FC Cinci coach a few years ago who said some stuff, or that
RSL guy who lost his mind, or Jim Montgomery binge drinking while with the Dallas Stars. If it's anything in that category, someone's going to blab to the press, it's just how sports media works. So the lack of that is surprising. Pair that with a lack of details coming from the team itself, and it just raises the possibility that "maybe he didn't really do
anything". That this is just some Macbeth-style palace intrigue, like Jack Easterby going from chaplain to General Manager via some bamboozling of a naive young guy who had recently inherited the team.
That's not really the first, second or third thing you'd guess, but eventually, if we start deeming other possibilities as being even less likely, I'm not sure how much else we're left with.