Welcome everybody to soccer 101.

My name is Taylor Rockwell, and this week we are breaking with tradition of sort.

We tend to try to avoid topical episodes of 101.

We try to make them evergreen.

We don't want them to be about a specific moment in time.

And yet, with the hiring of Mauricio Pocitino by the U.S. men's national team, by U.S. soccer,

it feels like we do need to spend some time talking about

maybe less so Pocitino, Graham, but the history of U.S. coaches, the starting point,

the coaches along the way, the most successful ones in the modern era, many, many, many

time periods to be discussed, Graham Ruffin. So I appreciate your willingness to break

it all down. And I'm going to get shoehorn in some Scotland along the way. What was the name you

said? I'm not familiar with that name. Morris. Morris Pocketticoke Tos. Morris Pockettino. Sure.

That is maybe how he will be discussed on ESPN. I have a feeling somebody somewhere is going to call him that on some sort of daytime talk show when they're trying to talk about this news casually.

Yes, the news being that the USM&T has a new head coach. He was confirmed this week as the new USM&T head coach, as I say. So this feels like a good time to look back through the history of that position.

Taylor, how many Cleansman monologues do you have prepared for this episode? Does it in the double figures? Oh, I have none prepared. They tend to just... They come to me on the fly and then they, yes, explode from within. Usually when somebody... It doesn't take much. Somebody just being like, you know, I kind of miss the cleansing days.

No, you don't.

It just, I can't, I can't contain it.

I can't take much. Somebody just being like, you know, I kind of miss the cleansing days. No, you don't. It just, I can't, I can't contain it. I can't contain it, Graham. We'll see. We'll see if you're able to troll me into one or two or several as we go through. But it's a, this is a really interesting topic because I think we tend to think of U.S. coaches, like largely when we're discussing, like, who are the best coaches for the U.S. ever?

It starts with Bruce Arena. think we tend to think of U.S. coaches, like largely when we're discussing, like, who are the best

coaches for the U.S. ever? It starts with Bruce Arena and then we kind of see it from the

modern lens. There have obviously been many, many, many different coaches. But it's a strange

history, starting out of Thomas Cahill in 1916. He's also the man who founded the U.S. Football Association, which

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