tldr: Promised land? Who knows? But we didn't make a bad hire.
I've been in the "show me" camp for two seasons now. Here's my "don't know fuck about shit" observations.
Sark is highly respected in the coaching community and believed to be a really good hire here by those in the profession. This matters.
He has assembled a very good staff. There are some gaps still. But the overall quality is top notch. The coaches here believe in him. They recruit well. They develop well.
Football is won in the trenches. He gets it. He addressed it immediately. And then our staff made our D-line very, very impressive with guys who were getting tossed around last year.
Player development is evident. Christian Jones should be the poster boy for this team. In 2021, people were frothing every week while he was blocking air, diving at the turf, calling him "turn stile", and no one even noticed him this year. He's not the only one who got remarkably better.
Texas won five games last year. 5. And they still brought in a kick ass recruiting class. Guess what is coming next year? Kids want to play for him. They believe. Some of y'all don't, but they do.
He doesn't mince words, act too cocky, overreact, blame the kids, or, in general, be a douche. There is a plan. For a program. And that's what you need to consistently win. Everyone is looking for the instant gratification, portal fix, pixy dust fix, shiny new coach fix, but that's a myth. You need a program if you want to win consistently.
Like all coaches, there is some hubris there. There should be. You don't want someone that doesn't believe in "their" system. But he's showing that he can evolve and adapt. As the talent keeps improving, the plan will work better and better.
There have been lots of wtf moments with his decisions this year, no doubt. But anyone who doesn't recognize that TH was running this ship into the rocks or thinks that replacing our coach every two years with the "latest, greatest coach (see J. Fisher) who can save us" is a good idea, is just dooming us to another decade of doom and gloom. I don't know if we'll be sniffing the championship game with Sark, but I recognize the improvement. If he can unfuck Ewers's head, we're going to be really good next year.