Union sporting director Earnie Stewart isn’t the social media type, but he still knows well that many fans want manager Jim Curtin replaced.
Stewart delivered a forceful response to those critics on Wednesday, giving Curtin perhaps his strong backing yet as the team heads into the offseason.
“I’m very pleased and proud to announce that Jim Curtin will be the head coach in 2018,” Stewart said right near the start of his end-of-season press conference with Curtin. “We’ll make sure that we keep going in the same direction that we have been going on. I think he’s a big part of this foundation that we’ve laid down.