Well. It’s been quite a week in US Soccer. The Federation has a new president in Cindy Parlow Cone, who takes over after Carlos Cordeiro resigned in the aftermath of charged legal filings in the Equal Pay lawsuit filed by the US Women’s National Team. Cordeiro’s fate was sealed as the backlash from media, fans and sponsors threatened to overwhelm the Federation.

The Fed has a lot of work to do to clean up this mess, and it’s an open question whether Cordeiro leaving will resolve the problems. To talk about what led to Cordeiro’s ouster, I called up fellow attorney Neil Blackmon and Kartik Krishnaiyer, both of whom are observers and writers of the Men’s and Women’s National teams, as well as the Federation.