Wow. This thread has blown up in more ways than one and at the risk of a hasty generalization, pretty much everyone who's posted in this thread has embarrassed themselves, myself included.
We have the current U21 manager being fairly antagonistic in his defense (to be fair, he is being antagonized and criticized very unfairly).
We have the two biggest contenders doing their very best to piss off the most involved member of their constituency:
Thegame187 basically saying he has no intention of using the offsite and he believes himself to be better than everyone else so he doesn't see the value in getting opinions from the offsite community, most of whom he believes to be inferior. Debatable, highly offensive.
Godbear blatantly misrepresenting Phyr, misrepresenting the US, and misrepresenting himself. I'm still not sure if his campaign is a joke but it's really not funny. He portrays Phyr as having lost a game we should have won. The claim that we should have won is more debatable than he seems to think; I don't think Godbear has any evidence to support his claim that we should have won other than this belief that since we're the US, we must have been better than France. He also blatantly misrepresents the argument for Phyr as "because E.B.W. and Phyr say so" while ignoring Phyr's qualifications and everything he's done right to help the NT. And he talks about the USA as "my community" and such grandiose rhetoric, when the reality is, if the USA National Team is "his community", he hasn't shown any sign of it--has never said a word or lifted a finger to help at any point in the past.
Nova Nation saying that U21 trainers should quit/fire their trainees if Godbear or thegame187 is hired. I think this is an inappropriate sentiment if you really want to help the U21 national team and only serves to strengthen the otherwise spurious argument that getting Phyr into office is more important than electing the right person for the job. However, I also think it illustrates perfectly the kind of backlash that Godbear and thegame187 are stirring up for themselves. It just isn't good politics or good business to elect leaders or managers who are going to break apart a well-established, successful organization and who have alienated the people who provide support and insight and who also control the means of production (the players themselves). If this were a real life campaign of any kind, any expert would tell you they don't deserve to win for how they've conducted themselves.