Ok, I’ll bite. First of all, I never anywhere said he was a “good coach.” I said I was feeling good about the direction we were headed in under Sark, and I think that was after the TCU game. I think the jury is still out. Here are my thoughts:
1. Shitshow offensive line. How do you judge a coach who is in his first year with an offensive line this abhorrent? If we had even a mediocre offensive line, I think we’re undefeated.
2. Assistant coaches and organization. Outside of the WR coach, I was pleased with every single hire he made. Now maybe PK doesn’t work out, or someone else, but there wasn’t one of us who thought he was a bad hire.
3. I don’t think I’ve ever felt as confident in our offensive play calling. And I again believe that if we didn’t have a wet paper bag for a line, this season would be entirely different.
Maybe you lay the blame for this line in the coaches not using the portal. I get that argument. I also believe it’s hard to tell what you have on the line until you get into actual games, just like it’s hard to recruit surefire offensive linemen.
4. Recruiting chops. I think this staff has them.
Now his clock management and some decisions like kicking the field goal vs. going for it give me pause. I’m waiting to see what he learns, if anything.
Fellas, we suck ass and we have for a decade. But at some point you have to stick with a coach. Out of Charlie, Turtle, and Sark, I’ll roll with Sark. And if I’m wrong, I’m wrong. I’m happy to stand behind that.
But you should all hope to hell he’s the guy. We can’t keep on switching coaches and hope to have any success here. Nobody wants to admit that first year coaches have to go through some warts, but they simply do. Theres too much irrationality around here with talk like “well if we win out…” right after the OU game. We were never going to win out after that game. Newsflash, we’re going to lose more games this season.
None of us knows how Sark will be as a coach long-term. That’s a simple fact.