The New England Revolution added a veteran face to their coaching staff for the remainder of the 2023 season.
Tab Ramos has joined Clint Peay’s staff as an assistant coach, bringing more than 15 years of experience to the group. Ramos, who recently served as head coach of USL club Hartford Athletic, has already begun preparing the Revolution for the final weeks of the MLS regular season.
“We are pleased to welcome Tab Ramos to our coaching staff in New England,” Revolution Technical Director and Interim Sporting Director Curt Onalfo said. “In addition to a Hall-of-Fame career as one of the best players of his generation, Tab’s wealth of experience as a coach, knowledge of our league, and proven track record of developing top talent will all be assets to our club as we get ready for the postseason.”
Ramos, a three-time FIFA Men’s World Cup veteran, previously served as head coach of the U.S. Under-20 men’s national team from 2011-20. Ramos was also an assistant coach for the USMNT from 2014-16, working under Jurgen Klinsmann at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
Ramos totaled a 10-21-26 record over two MLS seasons as head coach of the Houston Dynamo before joining Hartford Athletic in September 2022. He served as head coach until his departure in July 2023.
As a player, Ramos netted eight goals in 81 senior caps with the USMNT. The Uruguay native played in Spain for Figueres and Real Betis before also featuring for Liga MX side Tigres UANL and New York/New Jersey MetroStars in the United States.
The Revs sit third in the Eastern Conference and will face the Chicago Fire this weekend.
It’s not “odd”.
Arena being available to them in the first place was “odd”.
You don’t always have a big name manager like Arena available. A big name manager looking for redemption after pissing all over his legacy with his Couva crash and burn.
Besides , unless you think the Revs are going to throw big money around to hire a manager who is as big a name as Arena was, once you are this far along in the season, most of the Bruce Arenas of the world are already committed elsewhere.
let’s deconstruct this mess. first, arena had been out of a gig 7 months when he got hired, not a week. he didn’t just drop in their lap the day couva happened. friedel got a few months into the season and bombed. they then had a choice to tank the season or try. they tried. they won the next 11 league games.
second, in terms of how everyone is supposedly “already committed elsewhere (a) americans, bradley was available until a few days ago. porter and marsch are out of work. (b) international market, luis enrique, lampard, solksjaer, etc. your argument is dishonest and per usual like you can’t admit i might be right. TM has a running list, regularly updated, with all the coaches out of work around the world. there’s usually plenty of options — including people who could have been hired for US soccer or even were considered. you can pound the lectern in the abstract how there isn’t always a coach around. it’s not really true in the abstract and it’s concretely fake here. i can safely say there was a long list other/better than williams, the reserve team coach, or the worst coach in MLS/USL in recent years.
i also think you’re confused about the situation with your rhetoric. usually your coach gets fired for losing and not slurring someone. so your team is a bottom of table mess. so often the fans then condone promoting an assistant, or the reserve coach, or some cheap placeholder off the list you won’t admit exists.
by comparison, this is a playoff team. as of when arena got suspended, they were 2nd seed. can you explain to me why a 2 seed copies the “we’re toast” template, hires any old dude? this is a team in free fall since the coach got suspended, but with some points banked. there is no transfer window for coaches. there wasn’t one when they hired arena mid-season before. a playoff team should hire a playoff coach for now and for next season. duh. at the time this started happening they had like more than 1/3 of the season left. they have no reason to tank. to hear you, if LAFC’s manager got hired for cussing the assistants or the ball boys they should give up???????
and sorry but promoting an assistant if he was the one who reported the coach, is beyond tone deaf.
also, bears reminding NER are owned by kraft/patriots, and the coach resigned so they don’t owe him the remainder of his salary. do you really think they have to watch their budget? i think that’s the unspoken reason some teams like my dynamo will trot out some cheap reserve coach, is they owe the fired coach money and have no budget. kraft is a billionaire. this coaching expense is a rounding error to him, and it’s like do i chase the golden ring or do i quit with a winning team. that isn’t hard if you have the $.
Kraft doesn’t spend money on the Revs. He just doesn’t. He’s not likely going to throw money around for a big coach again. He doesn’t really care whether they win or lose. I think they hoped Bruce would be reinstated which is why they stuck with Richie but he is one the worst managers ever so once it was final the players said no more. On the outside it looks like bring in a guy with experience to help show Peay the ropes but they’ll probably promote Tab at the end of the season or sooner if the slide continues. A name with a questionable record that can be hired for an affordable price is Bob Kraft’s style when it comes to the Revs. All the beautiful stadiums going up and he still plays in his 2/3s empty NFL stadium. I get Bob paid for Gillette himself and he had all sorts of issues with just about every Boston neighborhood trying to build it. The Revs are really just there so that his stadium gets used in the summer.
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“already committed elsewhere (a) americans, bradley was available until a few days ago. porter and marsch are out of work. (b) international market, luis enrique, lampard, solksjaer, etc. your argument is dishonest and per usual like you can’t admit i might be right. ”
What you are doing here is stating your opinion on this situation.
I am taking issue with your description of this situation as “odd”. Bruce is arguably the biggest name in the American manager category, and big names sometimes get fired during the season and then get replaced by lesser known , often cheaper managers. It doesn’t happen every day but it’s hardly “odd”. And it’s not that big a deal.
“dishonest”? “big on the coach”?
Bob, and proven failures Porter and Marsch are not in Bruce’s class as a big name manager or in terms of their ability. I’m no fan of Bruce but he is unquestionably a better manager than those three and all of them would be a step down.
That said, neither you nor I know if they were approached.
” luis enrique, lampard, solksjaer,”
“TM has a running list, regularly updated, with all the coaches out of work around the world. there’s usually plenty of options — including people who could have been hired for US soccer or even were considered”
That’s very nice to know. But big names, even foreign ones, don’t guarantee success. Maybe the guys you listed got asked and said fuck you Bob. It is entirely possible that foreign coaches may not consider the Revs an A list destination, their goalkeepers notwithstanding. It’s also possible that Clint and Tab might lead the Revs to the MLS Cup. You don’t know.
I know you think you’re omniscient but, trust me, you don’t know. You seem to be amazed, utterly amazed that other people don’t do things your way or think as you claim to think. As a genius myself I too am amazed when others don’t take my every word as gospel but it’s their loss and believe me, you’ll get used to it.
“do you really think they have to watch their budget? ”
Bob Kraft and I don’t hang out so I don’t understand his attitude towards the Revs but just because Bob has a ton of money it doesn’t mean he is obligated to consult you and spend it the way you think he should.
The kind of attitude that makes you a billionaire (is Bob a legit billionaire?) is not necessarily conducive to building a successful sports team.
As an uninformed outsider the Revs always struck me as a pretty thrifty operation. Why? I don’t know but neither do you. You love to spend other people’s money. So do I but I don’t get sore about it if it doesn’t happen. You do.
This whole Arena business is sad but, unfortunately, it is just not that big a deal these days.
V: sorry but even if you see arena as a grade “A,” the fact you see marsch or porter as “B” or “C” doesn’t justify promoting a “D” or “F” because an “A” is unavailable. this makes neither logical nor qualitative sense — as a winning team you hire the best around. i don’t think it’s factually true there is no “A” including international coaches. nor do i think a team with “B” options should just slap a “D” coach out there for the fall sitting second in the standings. that’s what last place teams do.
JR: they don’t spend money on coaches except when they do — arena. internally contradictory. their initial choice of williams suggests they hoped as with say GB that he would emerge ok and back to business as usual. like the men with callaghan and hudson. when it turned out arena is done they have brought a mutiny on their hands because williams was supposedly one of the complainers. surely they considered this and just bet badly on his survival.
the odd thing is they treated the struggling friedel era as an opportunity to sign big on the coach, but with a team sitting 2nd or 3rd they hire coaches for the final 1/3 of the season like it’s a dumpster fire. odd.
It’s not “odd”.
Arena being available to them in the first place was “odd”.
You don’t always have a big name manager like Arena available. A big name manager looking for redemption after pissing all over his legacy with his Couva crash and burn.
Besides , unless you think the Revs are going to throw big money around to hire a manager who is as big a name as Arena was, once you are this far along in the season, most of the Bruce Arenas of the world are already committed elsewhere.
I think the situation is complicated by legal restrictions on what they can do with Ritchie. My guess is that he’s protected as a whistle blower and firing him would look like retaliation. Since he was in line to take over from internally, they probably have to “give him a chance” before they can get rid of him for cause even if he does objectively suck as a coach and players seem to personally despise him (as did a lot of the rest of coaching staff). So they probably can’t even hire a permanent head coach until all of this is sorted out. Probably he’ll be on leave through the rest of season, he’ll “have the chance to come back” in the off-season, he’ll wisely decide to resign and go elsewhere and then everyone can move forward.
oh, i know they can’t touch richie, but promoting him was crazed. my understanding is his contract is up end of the year. so as CYA you tell whoever you hire, he has to stay on the staff this season, but you can hire a full staff besides him. you listen to his advice then do whatever, you give him what tasks you feel like, he vaporizes in december. if you tell a candidate richie is additional to their coaching staff and not replacing part of it, i doubt they care about 1 season.
fwiw i thought half the point here was richie getting upset at being effectively orphaned. as in arena and others were extended but he wasn’t. that particularly struck me as one reason the promotion was odd. i get the corporate CYA but leaving him be or letting him quit for his full remaining paychecks would probably have sufficed.