Everything posted by TreatyOak
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
None of this matters.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
That is actually a great question and I thank you for asking it. What I want is a coach that can motivate a player to say what Fernando Mendoza said after beating Ohio State. I highlighted the parts that are most instructional: "We were never supposed to be in this position, but by the glory of God, great teammates and great coaches around us, we were able to pull this off, and now the Hoosiers are flipping' champs. Let's go! IT'S THE RIGHT PLACE CAUSE WE'RE PROCESS-ORIENTED. We're going day-by-day. The offensive line, the defense, the coaches, the special teams. WE'RE ALL PROCESS-ORIENTED TO ONE GOAL. We're brothers, cause we know we're going to stick together to make the strongest glue ever." (ABOUT WR CHARLIE BECKER) "Charlie is incredible cause EVERY DAY THIS SUMMER AND EVERY DAY BEFORE PRACTICE WE THROW. AT 7AM ON SUNDAYS. DOING ROUTES. And now it's all coming to fruition. As well as our defense playing light's out, along with everybody. What an incredible moment." IMHO, that's what it takes to be exceptional in anything. I think Sark is capable of fielding a good team, but not an exceptional one with the attitude Mendoza illustrated for us. His teams are a reflection of him — they are, for various culture reasons, dispassionate. So yes, sadly, I want a new coach. ☹️
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Watching Cignetti's team currently tearing Alabama a new one. Compare how they play full-throttle all game to how Sark's teams played in year five. Indiana is ahead 38-3 and Cignetti looks pissed at his defense. It took Cignetti less than two seasons to build this team. Sark is finished with year five and it's a mess with excuses about babysitting coaches, no featured running backs, and wide receivers who can't catch. But it's the defenive coach's fault. Glad we got that cleared up. But trust in the process with Sark. We need to give him another five-to-seven years so he can really implement his program and come up with a new slogan.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Amazing that so many people are just fine with mediocre results. It’s very TexAgs, honestly.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
So Texas isn't the richest athletic program and we made the 12-team playoffs?
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Totally 100% agree. It's not that hard.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
So Texas isn't the richest program yet couldn't get into the 12 team playoff? Care to actually address that issue?
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Fair enough. Here's one: 2025-26 College Football Playoff Teams (12-Team Format) #1 Indiana Hoosiers (Big Ten) #2 Ohio State Buckeyes (Big Ten) #3 Georgia Bulldogs (SEC) #4 Texas Tech Red Raiders (Big 12) #5 Oregon Ducks (Big Ten) #6 Ole Miss Rebels (SEC) #7 Texas A&M Aggies (SEC) #8 Oklahoma Sooners (SEC) #9 Alabama Crimson Tide (SEC) #10 Miami Hurricanes (ACC) #11 Tulane Green Wave (AAC) #12 James Madison Dukes (Sun Belt) Here's another: Richest College Athletic Programs (2025 Valuation) University of Texas ($1.48B): Leads in revenue, driven by $137 million in donations and a massive NIL budget of $35M-$40M for 2025. Ohio State University ($1.35B): Consistently among the top, with high revenue from football and large athletic department valuation. Texas A&M University ($1.32B): A top SEC program with significant valuation. University of Georgia ($1.16B): Boosted by recent national championship success and growing revenue. University of Michigan ($1.16B): A perennial top-five program in revenue and valuation. University of Notre Dame ($1.13B): Strong independent, consistently high-valued, and revenue-generating.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
You can continue to support Sark all you want, and I will continue to share the myriad of reasons why he's not good enough. I'm actually not a hater. No one on this site has spent more time with the players, than I have and over the last four years, I have learned that they are amazing people. They deserve the best. So do the fans who are asked to contribute so much.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Yes, the Beard situation is unique for us, because he was a clearly a great coach, and he screwed it up. He doesn't belong in a list of mediocrity alongside Terry, Smart, Strong and Herman who all sucked beyond all comprehension. Sark is better than those losers. But I don't see him winning a championship for Texas, and since that should be always the goal.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Using the proof point that we won a meaningless exhibition game played by mostly scrubs while the 12-team playoffs are going on is quite a flex.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
They have been able to produce winners in football and basketball that greatly exceed anything we have done over the last 16 years. Perhaps they have better organization and cohesion on the highest levels that allows them to choose and support great coaches. Between Strong, Herman, Smart and Beard, we have been a mess, and that's being charitable. Currently, I would argue that it's a better job than UT.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Oregon is an incredible job. Yet writers said, 'pay Dan Lanning whatever it takes' to make him take the Michigan job. Nobody wrote that about Sark. So is Alabama, which is arguably a better job than Texas. Yet Kalen Deboer had to make a public statement to get people to back off. Sark didn't have to make a statement because, well, there was no attempt to get him. My point is that Sark never gets in any lists for hottest coach. None. I think Sark is, at best, a mid-level coach who will produce mid-level results. Yet some of you seem perfectly fine with that.
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- 2025 Citrus Bowl - Texas vs. Michigan - 2:00pm on ABC
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
100%.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
This is 100 % exactly my point. His name never comes up. Perhaps he would be more successful as a coordinator in the NFL, where he would't be responsible for getting his team focused, since he seems to kinda suck at that.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
He beat Ohio State, which Sark can't seem to do. Maybe, just maybe, in this new era where money is king, Texas should never be sitting on the sidelines. And yes, I do admit that I am not one of his biggest fans these days. His recent press conference utterances told me everything I need to know about him. And now he's whining about NIL. Poor baby! It's so unfair that you have to do your job as well as ten other coaches seem to be able to do! I don't think University of Texas athletics should ever tolerate mediocrity, but especially in the modern era where we have all the advantages.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Just asking the question. Sark got paid a lot of money, Texas is the largest money-generating program, and has one of, if not the largest player payrolls in college football, but we couldn't make a 12-team playoff. Could it be possible that Sark isn't the best coach that Texas could get?
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
If it's a joke, it sure isn't much of one. The list of the hottest coaches today and coaches actually approached for jobs like Michigan and Penn State somehow didn't include genius and master strategist/motivator Steve Sarkesian. Louisville’s Jeff Brohm Oregon's Dan Lanning Arizona State’s Kenny Dillingham (locked up with new contract) Missouri’s Eli Drinkwitz Washington’s Jedd Fisch Alabama's Kalen Deboer Indiana's Curt Cignetti (locked up with new contract) Hell, even His Royal Whaleness, the Duke of Elko, appeared on wish lists for Michigan. Apparently, not everyone in college football shares the opinion that Sarkesian is an ace-in-the-hole, cracker jack coach.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Another proof point in my treatise on Sark: with the myriad of coaching changes this season, we heard a lot of “pay Kalen Deboer or Dan Lanning whatever they ask” for the Michigan job. The top ten names all got thrown around for Penn State, Michigan and other choice jobs. But somehow, despite all his brilliance, Steve Sarkesian’s name never came up. Wonder what is up with that? I thought he was one of the most brilliant offensive minds in the game and a QB whisperer. Could it be that our $9.95’s are…wrong?
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Is this the end of shitty bowl games?
Nothing says college like the StaffDNA Cure Bowl in Orlando, Florida. You don't get misty college memories when the Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl drops? The SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl doesn't conjure up an autumn campus, cute girls in sweaters and keg parties? I love the collegiate pride and history associated with this year's Xbox Bowl in venerable college town, Frisco, Texas. I always walk the campus with my wife and daughters before the Bush's Boca Raton Bowl of Beans. Didn't Michigan beat the University of Chicago in the first-ever bowl game, the Myrtle Beach Bowl Presented by Engine?