From the moment last August when long-serving general manager John Doyle was fired, the fate of Dominic Kinnear as San Jose Earthquakes head coach was uncertain. After all, Doyle was responsible for bringing back his childhood friend to lead the team back in 2015, and the Quakes had shown only moderate improvement in Kinnear’s second go around as the man in charge.
When the club handed Jesse Fioranelli the general manager reins in January, it was widely speculated that the Italian would want to bring in his own head coach to lead the Quakes on-field efforts.