“It couldn’t get any more different.”
‘The hardest part of climbing to the top of the mountain, is staying there once you reach the summit’ is often a overused, lazy phrase reserved for coaches, talking heads & exhausted writers. However, it’s hard not to make such a relatable analogy when you look at Mike Petke’s jobs from 2013 through 2016. Going from coaching in the MLS Eastern Conference Finals one year, to observing ODP training sessions on a divot riddled football field off the New Jersey turnpike sounds like a scripted drama on TNT.
“I did have some offers to come back to coaching.