If this season is shit, and so is next season, I'll guarantee CDC hands Sark his pink slip. One year, maybe it's an anomaly, but two years is a pattern, and that doesn't look good for CDC.
I don't know what coaches will be available or who CDC would want, but he isn't about to let this program go to shambles just because Sark is a "nice guy." He's being paid generational wealth to get this program to the playoffs and a NC, and if Sark misses the CFP twice in 2 years, he's a dead man walking. We've had four top-5 classes in a row, and we've shown nothing but apathy after last year's semis. All of those wins and playoff appearances? Mostly Herman recruits.
QB: Manning (5*) I don't know what to say at this point. Caldwell (SR-TR) looked good in his few spurts. Lacy (4*) RS, Owens (portal at season's end), Bell (5*) incoming.
Wide Receiver: Wingo (5*) Soph, Moore (4* top 150 recruit) JR, Terry (5*) FR, McCutcheon (4* top 200 recruit) FR, Lockett (5*) FR, Ffrench (4/5* depending on service. Top 50 recruit) FR, Butler (4* top 200 recruit) RS-FR, White Chocolate (3* shoukd have been a 6*), Moseley (3*), Niblett (4* top 100 recruit). Every WR recruit from 2022 has transferred.
Running Back: Ced Baxter (5*) RS-SOPH is nowhere to be to be found, maybe he is back next season to team with Cooper (5* FR), Wisner (3*) JR, Simon (4* top 200 recruit #9 RB), Clark (3*), Rickey Stewart, Jr. (3*), Cooper (if he sticks) (5*) FR, but the o-line recruiting is beyond porous. Choice absolutely fucked us in ways that you shoukd only have access to Red Rooms on the Dark Web. We LITERALLY HAVE THREE RB'S. Embarrassing. We have reached the apex of the lowest microbe. How Sarkisian can allow this to happen and not even go out for a transfer RB is more mystifing than MH370 crash bodies. Negligence is being kind. Sark should be fired on this alone.
TE: Will Randle (3* will never play a down. Has zero stats) SOPH, Jordan Washington (4*), Nick Townsend (4* top 75 recruit. Freak athlete. Apparently just stands on the sidelines talking about which spirit squad he's going to impregnate), Emaree Winston (3*) has seen more action than Townsend. It's a mystery that Robert Stack may need your help on. Jack Endries (SR-TR) I have no idea what he's supposed to do with a shitty QB. Spencer Shannon (3*) I don't know wtf he actually does, because blocking isn't one of them. We have played 3 TE's all season, with one (Winston) getting 2 catches in the first 3 games. The other two try to be productive, but that's hard when your QB is erratic at best.
I don't know what to say other than it's not like we lack talent. We have a dumbass as a HC/OC who brought with him Milwee (what does he actually do? He was an analyst at Bama and a OC/QB coach at Akron), his buddies Flood (sucks harder than that pipeline that killed those underwater divers in 2022), Banks who is the "special" in special teams, and I don't know what he's teaching the TE's.
I'm not worried about the defense in the slightest. Our pass D will improve. We have top 50-200 DL coming in, and already have 2 ready to go next year, along with Watson (who will be a JR), I have no idea on Melvin Hills, but we will get January back, and add some more portal players.
I'm absolutely flummoxed at the mismanagement of the offense.