Brian, are you telling us that a new manager were directly placed in USA's top level? I thought that those things weren't suposed to happen anymore.....
Cleaning must be done in midseason (after round 15 is played) and at the end of season, competition fairness is highly affected when you do cleaning in a different moment, specially if the league has some population (at least 8 teams).
I though issues like this ended long time ago, geez.....