It almost feels like he aims to convert the best US talent to a shell of their former abilities. First it was Rheinhardt, then Cooper, now Birnbaum and Burns. If you had each of these athletes stay with their former coach, I bet that they would all have ran faster than what they are doing right now (and would acquire a lot more racing experience too). Joining an environment with more talented athletes should lead to development not regression. Fire Jerry Schumacher! Would love to hear the accounts of more people in the know + former ducks.