He's going to be there, and he's going to be open,

We're alive in both cups. We're alive in the U.S. Open Cup, which is very important to our organization. We're still very much alive in league play. So we're very happy that we won Wednesday night. We know that we will meet this team again in league play at our place, and probably in the playoffs at some point. We just hope to be playing our very best soccer when that time comes.

He brought everything to the pinnacle,

But Mike is a straight shooter, and this is probably as good of a situation as it could be. This is one of the rational, reasonable ways you would think it would have to come to an end.

I think if somebody would give him the opportunity today to be a top-three receiver on a team, he'd still be playing.

There will be a massive jump for Mike this season,