Sark after dark COACHING STAFF thread

[bEastTexas 497]

22 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

The only thing worse would be Mike Stoops calling plays.

We’re likely minutes away from the Shawn Watsoning of this guy’s run as HC at Texas. 

Is that what you’re hearing or are you guessing? 
 

What would you think if he was paired with Ansley as Co-DC?

[BurntOrange&White 39612]

2 minutes ago, Newy25 said:

No he didn’t. I’m not saying that is any reflection on Hutzler but let’s not try to rewrite history. Mitchell is a fucking terrible football player. He’s a little less terrible than he used to be but he is anything but “respectable”. 

[ClubWhatever 12087]

Stoops, while a laughable pick, would be hands down better than Lupoi.

[Longhornlove 4779]

1 minute ago, Newy25 said:

No he didn’t. I’m not saying that is any reflection on Hutzler but let’s not try to rewrite history. Mitchell is a fucking terrible football player. He’s a little less terrible than he used to be but he is anything but “respectable”. 

Your opinion vs mine. I agree to disagree. The LB group was much better than last year, giving credit where it belongs. Coach Boom raves about him he is good in my book, maybe you should stop making this about Juwan. Did he fuck your wife or something. I get it, he is a turd and most including me don't like him but don't take away his progression for a solid coaching effort out of spite for the said turd.

[futureman 22414]

3 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

Stoops, while a laughable pick, would be hands down better than Lupoi.

nah

[closetojumping 62213]

22 minutes ago, Longhornlove said:

I can only assume you know something we don't.

 

3 minutes ago, bEastTexas said:

Is that what you’re hearing or are you guessing? 
 

What would you think if he was paired with Ansley as Co-DC?

If I knew something, I usually would try to indicate as much. I’m just handwringing like the rest of you. 

[Machinator 32097]

Cross-posting from the other thread. Here are notes from the Sark zoom with lettermen, via IT:

Spoiler

CDC: When we decided to make a change, one name kept popping up in my mind – Steve Sarkisian. I don’t like change, I’m slow to make change. People grasp at straws and I don’t want to be in that position.

Steve Sarkisian: Honored to be head coach. (He’s given the speech several times already and he’s pretty smooth with it.) Really likes the roster: “This is not a complete rebuild. I’ve done a complete rebuild. … This roster has talent on it, clearly some holes to fill and needs to improve upon.”

Told a couple schools ‘no‘ last season, couple this season, told someone no right before this one and it was a big one. “It’s clearly a big task but I’m not going to shy away from it, I’ve been through some things in my life that have hardened me, made me a better coach, humbled me some, made me a more thoughtful and compassionate person.” But it’s “allowed me to change the way I approach our players, and allowed me to spend two more years under Nick Saban and learn from him.”

Now is the time. Goal is to be here for the next 15-20 years, and establish something that is incredible. “Who would want to replace Nick Saban? I hope people are asking that in 15-20 years about Steve Sarkisian at Texas.”

Want to develop young men – on field, in weight room, in classroom. Graduate them. So when they move on and their football careers are done, they have a successful life. “That’s all part of the process as a head football coach and leader of young men.”

“We’re putting together a tremendous coaching staff that rivals any one in America.”

Starting work in a week - in weight room, on body composition and speed development

Q&A: Not sure I will do things “different” because I’m not focused on how it was done before. Focus is on how we want to do it now. Real sense of discipline that starts off the field and carries itself onto the field. Our job is to outcoach and out-prepare our opponents. It will take a little bit of time but we’ll get there.

First holes to fill – defensive end, don’t have the numbers at that position that you need from a roster management perspective. I think there was 15 receivers on scholarship and we just signed 3 more. At Alabama we had 8 or 9 – that was too low, but this number is probably too high.

Defense – football is a fundamental game, a lot of time we can get caught up in scheme. But for schemes to work you have to play with great fundamentals. I do think you need multiplicity in today’s college football, there’s too much offense right now. You have to be multiple to handle varying schemes from week to week and make things hard on your opponent. We want an attacking style defense, we want to be multiple inside, but we don’t want to sacrifice technique just to be multiple. It’ll take some time to grow into that, but ideally we can stem inside and help the guys up front.

Loves the facility upgrades, we’re going to be right there at the top of the country.

“We have some key targets we’d like to close on well in February and we’re definitely looking at the transfer portal, but anytime you’re looking at portal or juco you should be thinking this guy’s going to come in to fill a key role on your roster. It’s not where we’re going to major, I’d rather major in bringing in freshmen and developing them. Transfer option is going to be for immediate need so there will be things we’ll do in the portal, but going forward we’ll be focused on the freshmen signees and then 1 or 2 people a year we bring in from the portal.”

“Recruiting is about relationships. Facilities matter, schemes matter, tradition matters – but when you get down to it, when a young man is choosing among elite programs in the country, relationships matter. I believe in being authentic with players and their families, and over time you can develop trust and they can take your word with real value and not just as recruiting talk.”

I’m highly involved in recruiting and highly involved in the relationship piece of it, but assistants have to buy in too – that we’re a relationship-based program.

When a kid commits to a university, the university commits to a young man. It’s like dating, engagement and marriage. Unfortunately the times have changed, now a young man commits to you but still goes on dates. We’ll continue to have conversations with a young man if the interest is returned. On the other side we want to be sure a young man is truly committed to the University of Texas otherwise they shouldn’t commit.

In my career I’ve had five quarterbacks go in the top 10 of the NFL draft, and we’ll have another one this year in Mac Jones [On Jones I think he was saying “drafted” not “top 10”]. I think we’ve got a lot of good selling points for a young man to come to Texas, especially if he’s from the great state of Texas.

The first thing every coach has to understand is that we are a developmental staff. We’re not just a recruiting staff. We have to embrace that mindset. That’s not just in the weight room and on the field, it encompasses raising our football IQ, what we’re doing in school and balance in life, getting their degrees. If you develop players then they’re more open to your guidance in other aspects of life. What happens on the field is a direct reflection of what happens off the field.

What are you bringing to our program that will hopefully minimize penalties and special teams issues: Discipline is a key component. When I say discipline I’m not implying hard coaching or yelling at a kid. It’s about how kids go to class, go to the weight room, how they dress, the discipline of the dress of the day (do we have the proper pads on)? Those things are a direct reflection of discipline. You don’t get discipline on the field, you get discipline off the field and that carries onto the field. If you are running 40s and we tell you to put your hand behind the line and you put your hand on the line, you’re making a decision. And then when you’re on the field and you know you can’t block a guy in the back, you may do it anyway.

Life off the field is about perseverance. There’s always obstacles – and football is the best trainer for that. Transfers are an easy way out. Hopefully we can teach our young men that there are no easy ways out in life.

CDC said Sark is in the process of wrapping up a couple of staff hires this morning. (Friday)

Lot of value in a really good walk-on program in the success of your team. There’s an overachiever mentality that walk-ons bring to your team that can sometimes drive the higher-profile players.

 

[Fud 9545]

Seems like Arnett or Golding are most likely 

Holding out hope for Odom, although the only interest I’ve seen/heard about him came from Dennis Dodd, who is a bit dubious 

[Skipper 6103]

30 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

 

We’re likely minutes away from the Shawn Watsoning of this guy’s run as HC at Texas. 

Not really the same thing.  Watson was actually Charlie's choice. I'm not holding it against Sark that Muschamp was in and changed his mind.  Hopefully can still pull a rabbit out of a hat.

[futureman 22414]

1 minute ago, Skipper said:

Hopefully can still pull a rabbit out of a hat.

*pull a rabbit out of his head

[Burt Macklin 18993]

10 minutes ago, Longhornlove said:

Your opinion vs mine. I agree to disagree. The LB group was much better than last year, giving credit where it belongs. Coach Boom raves about him he is good in my book, maybe you should stop making this about Juwan. Did he fuck your wife or something. I get it, he is a turd and most including me don't like him but don't take away his progression for a solid coaching effort out of spite for the said turd.

Your opinion is wrong. Mitchell improved, but he still sucked and needs to be replaced. 

[closetojumping 62213]

Just now, Skipper said:

Not really the same thing.  Watson was actually Charlie's choice. I'm not holding it against Sark that Muschamp was in and changed his mind.  Hopefully can still pull a rabbit out of a hat.

1) Let’s just hope it doesn’t happen, making this discussion irrelevant. 

2) For me, it’s less about how the hiring went down versus what the hire does for the program. So I get the point, but a disaster calling plays on either side of the ball immediately throws the Sarkisian era into peril. Stoops or Lupoi calling plays would do that. 

3) If Stoops joins the staff, it is actually because Sark has been working to get him here the whole time, in spite of sound counsel pushing back. Whether he’s calling plays or not, that would look an awful lot like how Strong handled getting Watson in.

So, let’s hope for the breaks to go in our direction this time. 

[Elmer_Fudd 22102]

13 minutes ago, Fud said:

Seems like Arnett or Golding are most likely 

Holding out hope for Odom, although the only interest I’ve seen/heard about him came from Dennis Dodd, who is a bit dubious 

Odom and Arnett sound like what Sark wants going off the zoom interview posted by machinator.  Multiple and using different looks.  I'd take either as DC/LB and maybe make a run at Ansley as a Co-DC title and CB's coach?  

Edited January 16, 2021 by Elmer_Fudd

[ztejas 43262]

20 minutes ago, Longhornlove said:

Did he fuck your wife or something.

Are you his cousin or something?

[dcar00 14030]

40 minutes ago, cam4mav said:

for anyone else like me that didn't do news yesterday 

 

 

 

so "Bidness Decision"?  should we respek it?

[Longhornlove 4779]

5 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:

Your opinion is wrong. Mitchell improved, but he still sucked and needs to be replaced. 

Your opinion of my opinion being wrong doesn't make it true, like I said, agree to disagree. JFC, I said he was respectable. At what point does that mean he shouldn't be replaced? Did I say anything to the contrary? The entire subject was brought up about Hutzler with facts supporting the improved coaching of Juwan. This wasn't, never has been and never will be specifically about Juwan so stop inferring that it was.

[BurntOrange&White 39612]

Serviceable isn’t good

[Longhornlove 4779]

2 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Are you his cousin or something?

only from the waist down.

[dcar00 14030]

7 minutes ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

Odom and Arnett sound like what Sark wants going off the zoom interview posted by machinator.  Multiple and using different looks.  I'd take either as DC/LB and maybe make a run at Ansley as a Co-DC title and CB's coach?  

what I don't get here is what DC, in this day, would not say that he runs multiple with different looks.  this isn't 70's purple people eaters, doomsday defense era.

[DanTheHorn 4897]

55 minutes ago, cam4mav said:

why are people freaking out all of a sudden?

Aside from Ash to Jax, did anything else change since last night? 

 

wtf am I missing. Is it still looking to be between Georgia DC, Bama DC, LSU DC?

LSU does not have a DC

[sith_horn 2369]

On 1/14/2021 at 7:07 PM, taybo20 said:

What's happening with Hutzler? Would it be possible to keep him around and bring in Lupoi and they can Co-DC? Or am i a regard for even suggesting it?

Haven't seen anything definitive, but some earlier posts indicated he removed all references to Texas from his twitter account and that Ole Miss was strongly considering hiring him.

Edited January 16, 2021 by sith_horn

[BurntOrange&White 39612]

4 minutes ago, DanTheHorn said:

LSU does not have a DC

Neither fired Oregon

 

we should offer Jim Leonard like 2.5-2.75 million honestly. 

Edited January 16, 2021 by BurntOrange&White

[ztejas 43262]

10 minutes ago, Longhornlove said:

only from the waist down.

You've compared penii? Makes sense.

[NoName 16290]

1 minute ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Neither fired Oregon

 

we should offer Jim Leonard like 2.5-2.75 million honestly. 

Jim Leonhard isn't leaving Wisconsin.

From there

Played college ball there 

Was basically an analyst for a year there 

Was a position coach there 

Now is the DC there 

Hasn't coached anywhere else, and is well paid (so not like he's making 500k)

Hes a great name but we have the same odds of having him as our DC next year as we do of Bum (NOT Wade) Phillips being on the sideline as DC

[RollLeft 5040]

>Get Odom back on the phone.

or

>Call Ash back.   

or before we do something stupid like call Stoops i'd rather we call ELKO. 

and i'll leave this right here, regarding the special assistant position(s).....

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s02e22-phillips-3-4-defense-w-wade-phillips-former/id1473232876?i=1000499711986

 

Edited January 16, 2021 by RollLeft

[RollLeft 5040]

.dp

Edited January 16, 2021 by RollLeft

[cafe society 2836]

1 hour ago, cam4mav said:

why are people freaking out all of a sudden?

Aside from Ash to Jax, did anything else change since last night? 

 

wtf am I missing. Is it still looking to be between Georgia DC, Bama DC, LSU DC?

First of all, LSU doesn't have a DC currently.  Segundo, Lanning - GA DC, just signed an extension.  

[CowtownHorn 5126]

What’s Joe Yonto up to these days?

 

Edited January 16, 2021 by CowtownHorn

[HtownHorn 14468]

10 hours ago, clapclapclap said:

All gas, no DC

The best defense is an elite offense.

[Gut Wagon 8052]

6 minutes ago, NoName said:

Jim Leonhard isn't leaving Wisconsin.

From there

Played college ball there 

Was basically an analyst for a year there 

Was a position coach there 

Now is the DC there 

Hasn't coached anywhere else, and is well paid (so not like he's making 500k)

Hes a great name but we have the same odds of having him as our DC next year as we do of Bum (NOT Wade) Phillips being on the sideline as DC

Probably so. But hey...phone calls are free. 

[cdain3 3454]

Jim Leonhard isn't leaving Wisconsin.
From there
Played college ball there 
Was basically an analyst for a year there 
Was a position coach there 
Now is the DC there 
Hasn't coached anywhere else, and is well paid (so not like he's making 500k)
Hes a great name but we have the same odds of having him as our DC next year as we do of Bum (NOT Wade) Phillips being on the sideline as DC

Money talks and Wisconsin is not gonna pay him 2mil+

[Sgt. Slaughter 2841]

Maybe Sarks philosophy is to have a DC who gets the ball back into the offenses hands, not too bogged down with the specifics of via a punt, turnover or kickoff.

[Zhorn96 1772]

If we’re reaching for names, we can come back to DeRuyter.  Dude calls a good D.  Can’t recruit for shit but don’t know that’s needed at this point 

[nineliveslost 2710]

37 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

1) Let’s just hope it doesn’t happen, making this discussion irrelevant. 

2) For me, it’s less about how the hiring went down versus what the hire does for the program. So I get the point, but a disaster calling plays on either side of the ball immediately throws the Sarkisian era into peril. Stoops or Lupoi calling plays would do that. 

3) If Stoops joins the staff, it is actually because Sark has been working to get him here the whole time, in spite of sound counsel pushing back. Whether he’s calling plays or not, that would look an awful lot like how Strong handled getting Watson in.

So, let’s hope for the breaks to go in our direction this time. 

wait a damn minute here homie. Sark has been coaching with these guys for awhile now. I would think he would know who is a good defensive coach if he is the offensive genius we say he is. 

This shit gets so confusing 

[Vertigo 20265]

57 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

Stoops, while a laughable pick, would be hands down better than Lupoi.

[cdain3 3454]

Seems like Sark is waiting on Pruitt. Tennessee people still think he's done. We'll see....

[Bigbend1812 12884]

16 minutes ago, CowtownHorn said:

What’s Joe Yonto up to these days?

 

[David Dennison 18651]

5 minutes ago, nineliveslost said:

wait a damn minute here homie. Sark has been coaching with these guys for awhile now. I would think he would know who is a good defensive coach if he is the offensive genius we say he is. 

This shit gets so confusing 

What you don't understand is the posters on this board know way more about football than Sark does. 

[Mitch Cumsteen 18523]

1 minute ago, David Dennison said:

What you don't understand is the posters on this board know way more about football than Sark does. 

You know who else knows more about football than the posters on this board? Charlie Strong and Tom Herman. They both shot themselves right in the dick with their coordinator hires too. 

[Tex-19 2869]

Seems like it has to be Odom or Arnett at this point. My money is on Odom. Still wish Ash was getting more consideration but obviously not happening.

Pruitt would be another candidate too but sounds like he's working as if he's staying and I can't see hiring him if he gets slapped with anything serious. And I don't think anyone knows when he'd be available. Weird situation there though.

[elguapo 4583]

[Vertigo 20265]

2 minutes ago, Tex-19 said:

Seems like it has to be Odom or Arnett at this point. My money is on Odom. Still wish Ash was getting more consideration but obviously not happening.

Pruitt would be another candidate too but sounds like he's working as if he's staying and I can't see hiring him if he gets slapped with anything serious. And I don't think anyone knows when he'd be available. Weird situation there though.

I saw something in one of the threads that Tenn and Pruitt were negotiating a buyout and this could be done by the end of the weekend. Not sure how accurate that is, but most of their message boards expect him gone by Monday.

[Dondrysdale1 363]

Anyone think Ansley is the target as a co dc and play caller along with a linebacker coach? Maybe the waiting on Pruitt is not so much interest in him but a member of his staff?

[texifornia 56488]

1 minute ago, Vertigo said:

I saw something in one of the threads that Tenn and Pruitt were negotiating a buyout and this could be done by the end of the weekend. Not sure how accurate that is, but most of their message boards expect him gone by Monday.

The problem isn't his availability, it's getting him through compliance.

[JOSEYWALES66 1790]

1 minute ago, Vertigo said:

I saw something in one of the threads that Tenn and Pruitt were negotiating a buyout and this could be done by the end of the weekend. Not sure how accurate that is, but most of their message boards expect him gone by Monday.

Pruitt is a great DC but his possible compliance issues complicate the matter quite a bit.

[Thiefery 4965]

1 minute ago, texifornia said:

The problem isn't his availability, it's getting him through compliance.

Can't they just keep that under wraps?

[Vertigo 20265]

5 minutes ago, texifornia said:

The problem isn't his availability, it's getting him through compliance.

We have a guy with show cause on staff already. I don't know that it will be as much of a deterrent as in the past.

Edited January 16, 2021 by Vertigo

[closetojumping 62213]

22 minutes ago, nineliveslost said:

wait a damn minute here homie. Sark has been coaching with these guys for awhile now. I would think he would know who is a good defensive coach if he is the offensive genius we say he is. 

This shit gets so confusing 

I don’t give a fuck if he’s snuggling up each night in front of the tv with Mike Stoops and watching him breakdown film. Mike Stoops is a dog shit defensive coach who has been passed up by the game. He’s also a guy we got fired, mid season, from ou. He’s also a huge dick. He’s also a coke head. 

There isn’t a single redeeming thing about Mike Stoops as a coach. If Steve Sarkisian hires him against good counsel, I’ll assume he’s back on the sauce. He will have completely and immediately removed the benefit of the doubt. 

[Texas Wahoo 3383]

1 minute ago, Vertigo said:

We have a guy with show cause on staff already. 

I assume Davis’ show cause has run, no?

[JOSEYWALES66 1790]

1 minute ago, Vertigo said:

We have a guy with show cause on staff already. 

Not a current show cause.  That's expired.