The team is operating as a 12 cylinder Aston Martin Vanquish right now - in our first season, they were more of a 3 cylinder Geo Metro. And it pains me to think about how many non-contact soft tissue injuries we suffered in 2015. The former S&C coach was a total joke.
The coaches and the back staff are where you can really do the most damage to parity in the current MLS structure.
Some teams, like the Union, try to run everything on a shoestring and have the same guy doing multiple jobs.
Wealthier teams, like us, can afford to go all out and get some really top class specialist coaches. I'm convinced that our S&C coach is probably the best paid guy in that posistion in the league, and probably makes more than some head coaches in the league does. The work I've seen him do has been spectacular. NYCFC can straight up outdistance other teams over a full 90 mins, and its not just one player, its basically every player on the field.
I'd say the same is probably true of a lot of our various coaches, they are a cut above what you see in normal MLS buisness as usual. Just look at what they've done to Ben Sweat over the course of a few weeks of really intense focus. The guy went from a straight up liability to something almost serviceable over the course of a few weeks, he wasn't god awful against freaking Dallas of all teams.
We've got one of the best things you could hope for in a team, coaches who can make players play above themselves.