Osorio doesn't love the SuperDraft...

But he should.

Here's Coach Osorio's quote:

""If I am honest with you without criticizing or hurting anybody, I don't think there will be enough players to wait around for the second round," said New York Red Bulls coach Juan Carlos Osorio, whose first pick isn't until the second round (16th overall). "We're analyzing all our options and will decide if we should move up."

Osorio said he felt that there were five players at the adidas MLS Player Combine in Fort Lauderdale that were good enough to compete for a starting position and not more than 10 players who could make a team.

"I'm not just speaking on behalf of my own opinion but on behalf of the all the coaches as part of a general consensus," he said. "This time around doesn't have as many players as previous ones."
http://web.mlsnet.com/mls/events/superdraft/2008/article.jsp?ymd=20080117&content_id=135597&vkey=draft2008&fext=.jsp

Now, this might just be posturing, but unless this draft is the absolute worst ever (a distinction I think is held by the 1997 College Draft), you can be
certain that there will be between 6 and 12 guys that will not just make the team but have decent careers in the league. You can also be certain that one or two players from rounds three and four will make teams and perhaps even excell. How do I know? Well, I don't. No one knows about these players, which is how they get picked low. But these are players like Adam Christman (2007), Jonathan Bornstein (2006, which also featured Dyachenko and Veris, who aren't stars but could help a team like Osorio's-- whatever happened to Matt Groenwald? He looked good the few times I saw him in 2006), Chris Rolfe and Gonzalo Segares (2005), Michael Bradley, Josh Gros, David Wagenfuhr, Jeff Parke and Andy Dorman (2004), Logan Pause and Jamil Walker (2003), Alejandro Moreno and Davy Arnaud (2002), Edson Buddle, Craig Zadie, Jim Curtin, and Craig Waibel (2001).

The point here isn't that Craig Ziadie was a great player. He wasn't. But he was useful enough to contribute in MLS for four seasons. You need players like that-- and you're basically getting him for free. I wonder if Osorio really knows what he's seeing? I thought he did a great job with the Fire, but is the SuperDraft where we find out that he can't recognize the very raw talent of college youngsters?