The good news is that accountability for the disastrous World Cup qualifying effort by the U.S. men's national team was easier to find on Friday. The bad news is that there wasn't enough of it.
As so often happens, it was the manager -- in this case Bruce Arena -- who bore the initial brunt. While it's true that he led the U.S. to its greatest World Cup heights in the modern era, he was also in charge for its greatest collapse and there is no escaping the pain and magnitude of the failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup.