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In my opinion, the U21 manager responsibilities basically encapsulate four main areas:

1) Scouting (both players and teams)
2) Tactical knowledge
3) Community
4) Roster knowledge (I see this as taking scouting information and interpreting it)

How would the potential coaches plan to fully utilize and/or more preferably advance these areas. The USA has great scouting, but do any of you have knowledge of programs like Excel to help organize data? How have your personal team's shown your ability to select tactics based on the strengths of your and the other team? The USA has a good community, but how do you plan on making this better, pushing it further, and are you committed to this? How would you approach selecting players that are on the fence for making the roster and/or players that need to be called-up?

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What's best for U21 isn't always best for the player, owner and potentially the NT. For a D4 or D5 team secondary training is the best approach IMO. OD which is needed by everyone as well as PA and HND. So glad I'm not alone in this idea. At 20 or 21 train main skills for 4+ seasons and then smile.

Will that help the U21... probably not but will the US have a future world class star... most likely.

I presented my scouting and mentoring plan in my speech. In addition, I have a professional understanding of excel. I am in the education field, and one of my jobs to run the administration of state-wide exams at a large high school. Next week I am going to be administering over 3500 exams to 1800 students. Excel is the primary way I organize this. Organizing the top prospects of each U21 class will be a piece of cake, compared to what I have to do for work.

How have your personal team's shown your ability to select tactics based on the strengths of your and the other team?

On the club level, my teams primary goal is to train John Okobi, which requires a very unique training plan. Training can hurt your teams ability to win, so I try to pick tactics that will maximize my trainees effectiveness in a game for whatever position he is playing. The advantage of the club team is that you can then buy your 3-4 other starters for the specific tactic that you choose for your trainee, cover any holes your trainee has, and defensive switch if needed. These things take alot of the pain out of training. For example, if I had a guard that I was giving a season of inside training I would build an outside/patient team.

How would you approach selecting players that are on the fence for making the roster and/or players that need to be called-up?

Call ups are one of the biggest managerial decisions for the U21 managers. The callup has to be able to play the tactic you would like to play that week, but you also need to consider the GS and minutes history especially early on in the tournament. You don't want to call up a 9 GS guy to play in the first round only to have him be in 7 GS the rest of the tournament.

Call ups are one of the biggest managerial decisions for the U21 managers. The callup has to be able to play the tactic you would like to play that week, but you also need to consider the GS and minutes history especially early on in the tournament. You don't want to call up a 9 GS guy to play in the first round only to have him be in 7 GS the rest of the tournament.

This is an amazing point. In both my terms during the Worlds seasons, I practically wasted a call-up spot and it was never mentioned as the USA won the Gold medal both Worlds, but it was bad on my part. The two guys I am talking about is Wade Perry for s27 (He played a total of 7 minutes for the U21 NT that season) and Juan Downing for s29 (played in only 3 games, twice for just reserve minutes of 5 and 7). In both cases, we had a few other call up options that we could have used, but I did not do a very good job of making a decision off of past minutes and GS. Call up spots are so valuable and to waste them is a big problem. Luckily it didn't bite the USA in the butt either time.

My question is fairly simple:

As the current U21 NT coach until the Election is over, I like to see which managers take an interest in how things are run as the manager and what should be expected as well as how to help out and run the U21 NT. Phyr has certainly reached out to me and asked questions and has constantly been involved with the U21 NT. In my eyes, Phyr is the most qualified and if you are not voting for him, you better have a strong reason as to why. My question to the Candidates (Phyr does not have to respond) is why should I, and everyone else not vote for Phyr, when has has been the most committed to the U21 NT process up to this point?

Downing. Grrr...

I gotta second EBW if it's worth anything. While I don't doubt that other folks running could very well be very intelligent and hardworking U21 coaches, Phyr is the only one I've seen contribute to past U21 planning and demonstrate publicly a good understanding of the ins and outs of U21 play. I've voted for Phyr.