I feel like CONCACAF has been set back 10 years. The USMNT and Mexico are supposed to be the best teams in CONCACAF. Well, Canada did finish atop the last World Cup Qualifiers and Panama did beat the USMNT in the last Gold Cup semis. But other than that!...
The USMNT has had better results with less talent. We have some great players but they are being held back by Berhalter. If we replace Berhalter, maybe grouping out of the Copa America is a price worth paying in the long run.
We were the host. The HOST! Of South America's big tournament, and we hosted the South American "Centenario" tournament, too. I wonder if the non-American refs of our matches (and the countries that comprise CONMEBOL as a whole) harbor some resentment about that? I wonder if that's why we never got "homer" calls this tournament despite being the host? Do the CONMEBOL nations resent having to play on our narrow "American football" fields?
Does the fact that the USMNT always hosts the CONCACAF Gold Cup and Nations League tournaments feeds into this resentment? Is the USMNT soft because they don't like to play on foreign soil?
We have a toughness problem and we have a coaching problem. Maybe there's too much money at play to fix the former, but if there's that much money at play, we should definitely be able to fix the latter. It's way beyond time to fire Berhalter.