Wade Barrett has stated repeatedly that he considers the Houston Dynamo’s season to have started on May 28, the first game he took the reigns of the team after Owen Coyle’s departure.
Since then, the Dynamo have picked up a point per game, a slight uptick from the .92 points per game from the first 12 matches of the year, and made a run to the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Quarterfinals. The progress in the standings has been slow as the team remains at the bottom of Western Conference table and has only recorded one MLS win, but other areas have shown clear signs of improvement.