It’s funny, you hear about all these coaches whose teams struggle and within a matter of weeks, or even days in some teams cases *wave at Lakers* , you see the organization sack the coach and move onto another, only to see the losses continue to stack and the fan base to become further mired about with frustration.

With the Sounders current woes it’s been yet to really culminate into talk about finding a replacement for Sigi Schmid. However, unless things change and change rather quickly, those talks are bound to eventually happen.

To best honest, I’ve never really thought much about firing managers or coaches over the state of the ball club. I find that unless they are just really poor leaders all they can do is put players in position to succeed and wait for it to come or not turn up. A mid-season change does only one of two things, it’s a way of saying we’ll fix this in the off-season or attempt to fix this earlier than the off-season but either way it doesn’t look like we’re going to do anything positive.

They aren’t the talent–maybe they were at one time–they no longer are directly responsible for what happens on the field. Sure, again, they put guys in position to score goals, to stop goals, and generally look good while doing so. But that credit is usually attributed to the player.

What Sigi Schmid has done in the absence of goals, is continued to develop tactics in an effort to see them create chances and to put more guys into those opportunities. Its really, nothing short of impressive. He’s done everything but actually kick the ball into the net–though on Saturday I think many of us thought he would even jump on the field and try to do that too.

A lot of people believe that because Schmid brought home so much hardware, in such a brief time span that people will continue to over look Schmid and his short comings. The problem is that there isn’t a lot of short comings to really look past.

Sure, he has failed on a couple of occasions to really motivate and put out players that look like they actually WANT to be out there. But then again he’s been dealt half a deck with injuries that have ranged from the back line with Patrick Ianni, Adam Johansson, to midfield issues with Mauro Rosales trying to get healthy again and no forwards to be found in or around the Starfire training grounds.

I get it, I do. The frustration, the lack of collected points, the general briefings and topic about thins getting better. But the top thing this club doesn’t need to do right now is make a knee jerk reaction and be forced into finding another coach to take over the program.

Sigi Schmid has been solid during his tenure with the Galaxy, the Crew and the Sounders. This struggle is pretty mind numbing, but I am not sure that sacking Schmid would really do anything. I know they keep losing and we keep saying it. But it’s truth, right now it’s just going to take a bit of patience.