It was going to go one of two ways for the Red Bulls when Jesse Marsch, their head coach of the previous 3¹/u2082 successful seasons, suddenly left the club in early July to coach RB Leipzig in Germany.
There was, however, only one way Chris Armas was going to allow it to go once he was elevated from his assistant coach role to replace his mentor: onward and upward.
So what if midseason coaching changes sometimes can become distractions that derail teams?