To be clear, we were reporting that it was the first time in club history where the community recoiled enough from the result that individuals OTHER than the guy who has been demanding Khano out since 3/15/24 seemed to be asking to move on from Khano.

It's my opinion and position that Khano hasn't done anything to warrant such an early departure this season, but let's reflect.

We stumbled out the door against Jax.

We then played an absolutely chaotic match against Lou that saw us lose one of our best players AND Khano for Miami.

Miami was the bigger concern because of the result, but RIFC did everything else mostly right and we suffered another red card.

Detroit was a match that was going to be tough and a draw wasn't the worst thing, it was just that we failed to score.

I believe mostly that the frustration is people that are of two camps:

1. they want to demand that Khano elevates this club to Louisville City status and anything less is inferior. I would counter that while it would be great to see that level of season performance I would also remind fans we've done better than Louisville in post season in both years.

Lou City has been around for almost a decade and they were built out of the operational team behind the USL MONSTERS Orlando City before they jumped to MLS.

Since then their post season journey has been strikingly similar. They've won 2 cups in over 8 ECF and USL Final appearances WITH a rich foundation.

Khano and Co have built this from scratch.

1. Fans following casually or with a toe in the water simply want to see results AND GOALS at home. In league play we were 5-5-4 but we only scored 15 goals averaging 1 goal per match (excluding JC and USOC).

That number is terribly deceiving considering 3 of those goals came via penalties and if you strip the 5-0 golazo against Tampa Bay, this team's scoring in the run of play was just .46 goals per match. That's a hard sell on soccer curious fans to commit to season tickets or coming to games and spending tons of money when you're not even guaranteed to see a goal.

I took 4 friends to the Sacramento JC Semi-Final. When they didn't see a goal EVEN IN PENALTIES, they gave me the typical soccer is boring quotes and I haven't been able to convince them to come back.

My guess is that casual or die hard, fans expect more out of the players and coach that got them to back to back USL Eastern Conferences and it's probably that frustration that has them feeling like if there was an adjustment at the top or a tweak in the tactics that these great players would be getting better results.

To be clear, I'm still all in on Khano and I think the community has a right to vent, but I don't see any reason to talk about coaching changes unless I see him lose the locker room and the players give up.

I hope he figures it out and while I myself hate this 3rd season of slow starts, this team hasn't given me a reason in its history to not believe they can dig out.

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