Well, MLS has a pretty good model of how to do expansion teams that are going to be reasonably successful. Take an established USL team that is decent, add a bit more money and a few designated players, and make sure it's in a soccer hungry market. See Seattle et. al.
All of the newly created expansion teams haven't done well. Add in a rookie head coach, and a front office that really hasn't done us any favors with the players they've chosen to bring in, and it's not surprising we're struggling.
Honestly I thought last night was Wolfe's best in game decisions (not that it's saying much), yanking Cecilio early was a big call that obviously was the right move. Our guys look tired, and I hope he decides to modify his system. I know the 3-5-2 is the flavor of the times, but asking one of our 3 best mids in Ring to drop into defense so that our slow wingbacks can be rather ineffective and provide width just isn't working, they keep recycling possession rather than crossing the ball or attacking via the dribble. At this point I think we'd be better off just playing a 4 man backline and actually asking our attacking mids to provide width in the attack as a general rule. And for god's sake can we stop asking Fagundez to play on the outside of a 3 man front? His late runs in the attacking 3rd are his best offensive attribute.