Scott Schweitzer knows exactly why his team has done so badly since a hot start. It's nothing to do with him of course, it's the players.

http://www.carynews.com/sports/story/6816.html

Very sad when it comes to this. He also appears to blame his players for not taking Miami seriously. Isn't that the coach's responsibility, you know, to prepare his team for a particular game?

Very sad to see him throwing his players under the bus like that.

He should maybe keep his mouth shut until he gets over it...his players will just move on because they think he is an idiot...
Miami are on a good run, and that is encouraging, except for we have to play them Tuesday...

2006 Timbers coach Chris Agnello started doing the same thing about the middle of the season last year, and lost the respect of the players and after a good start at 5-4-3 at one point, then falling all the way down to the bottom of the table at 7-15-6 at the end of the season.

In many ways the RailHawks season has mirrored the Timbers 2006 season and it makes me think Schweitzer has lost all respect from the players, especially now that he's blaming them for their bad form in public, while taking zero responsibility himself.

Well, the Railhawks fan base still continues to amaze me...they are fabulous! Sometimes you have to just love a team through a losing streak and hope it's not a losing season...you and I both have reminded some of their more vocal fans(early in the season) that they had a great start, but the rest of the season will be telling...and to not get too excited...they still have a chance to move up in the standings and get to the playoffs, though...

1 win the last 11 games is not a good place to start a comeback.

If they got a new coach, maybe. Otherwise, I don't see it happening.

But kudos to the fans for hanging in there, I agree completely.

Very classy. He must be a sorry judge of character because se handpicked most of them. Economides picked the rest. So you do the math...

Put Playstation Norkus up top. He scored goals upfront with the Islanders last season before his injury sidelined him. I would have done that before I made a trade for a guy riding Vancouver's bench. :rolleyes:

Caleb Norkus played briefly for the Battery, too, the season before PR had their inaugural season...I was happy that he found PR to play for after the Battery released him, and then surprised to see him on defense...

Even more telling about Schweitzer's comments...

"whoever they are will be found out and you probably won't see blah blah blah..."

So, not only is he unable to take responsibility for his part in their troubles, he doesn't know who the apathetic losers are on his own team...

I don't believe any of them are apathetic, but is Schweitzer getting the best out of them? That's any coach's biggest challenge...he has just proven that he isn't any better at coaching than he is at sportsmanship...

I think a lot of fans of other USL clubs saw this coming. Their "physical" play was going to spring a leak on the ship and their coach was going to drown them.

Not sure why this is all so sad but first year franchises are not usually all sugar and spice. Early season hoopla aside, everyone wants a newbie club to do well as long as they pay their dues. And it seems from some early posts that some secrectly hoped the hawks would falter mainly because of previous feelings against their coach. Everyone involved is a professional and all will survive. Anyway, the season is still in play and time will tell the final results.

In the meantime here is an interesting article about USL;
http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/soccer/20070801-9999-1s1soccer.html