Jurgen Klinsmann's tenure as United States head coach ended on Monday, but that wasn't all. The promise of a new era -- a quantum leap forward for the U.S. men's national team program -- ended along with it.
Klinsmann has been fired because he never did fulfill the promises he made about the full national team when he was hired in 2011, namely that the U.S. would display equal amounts of style and substance. He was supposed to usher in a new era that would see a more proactive approach and take the game to opponents.
Granted, he is by no means the first coach to make grand proclamations about what was to come.