Jacking off to my Sark performance fantasy

[LTtxfan 49986]

42 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Lessens learned- aka- nailing the offseason

I was pretty bummed out about the trajectory of the program after the first year.  It wasn't great, even if some of it was explainable.  But, here is what I said after losing to Kansas that Sark had to do to get me onboard:

1) Get some level of heart for the final game of the year (Check- we beat KSU and Roshan established himself as the alpha on the team in leadership)

2) Get Quinn Ewers, a generational type talent to come here (check)

3) Fix the WR room through the portal (check- Neyor and the guy from ISU- not Sark's fault Neyor got hurt)

4) Finish strong in recruiting including nailing the OL (check and check.  Thanks Pancake factory- thank you #3 class)

5) Do something about the defense on the headset (hello Gary Patterson)

6) Fill in weak parts of the staff (great hires at RB and WR rooms)

7) Change the mood in the lockerroom and around the team through positive losses and bringing in good dudes (Get in that motherfucker- check- guys that have come in from other programs also seem good- our hobbit LB and our gimpy ISU receiver seem to know what they are about- and of course- the mullet man). 

8 ) not fuck up fall camp and the QB decision.  (check- the fact that he made Ketch look like a fool is just Chef's kiss).

This offseason was a very clear success.  Other than not getting an edge guy that's good (and that's going to haunt- I just know it), Sark has gone down the checklist and made every room on the team better. Most through portals, but the OL class we just recruited has the talent to be legendary. We are upgraded across the board everywhere in talent, while not seeing a single guy leave that we wish didn't (other than maybe Dicker).  

 

(Oh Yeah... pg 2)

 

 

Edited August 25, 2022 by LTtxfan

[UTEX_ME 4289]

The one thing Sark has to flip the script on that post 09 Mack, Strong, and Herman couldn't do is fix the loser mentality of the team. Mack's teams in the aughts took the field and everyone in the stadium knew they were going to win. They'd start slow and ho hum maybe even be down in the first quarter. But by the fourth quarter, the game was either in Texas' control or Texas would be position to win the game in the fourth quarter more times than not. Those teams had swag, confidence, and just looked like they loved to play football.  I haven't seen those qualities in a Texas team for quite some time. Now the perception is any scrub team with enough players that hate Texas because they weren't offered has the confidence they can beat Texas. See Kansas last year. I'm sure UTSA will have similar confidence until proven otherwise.  The talent is here. Finally recruiting is focusing more on the line of scrimmage. If Sark can flip the mentality of the team, there will be trophies and rings a plenty in the future. 

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12301]

Winning attitudes develop as players see the rewards that come from doing what you ask them to do.

Players know when they’re being ask to do stupid shit (looking at you PK) and they stop believing in what you’re asking them to do. A lack of belief manifests itself as the loser’s mentality we keep seeing.

[Lidig8r 1906]

3 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Sark at USC- was it really all that bad or just completely and totally explainable? 

Lots of people are going to point to Sark's tenure at USC as in some way disappointing or as proof that he can't be a head coach.  What I'm here to say is "Not so fast my friend."

Lets get the elephant in the room out of the way first- Sark might have occasionally had a little too much to drink.  Here is what I will say about that:  Who amongst this group of degenerates hasn't gotten drunker than Cooter Brown and made an ass of themselves at the Xmas party?  Right?  That's what I thought.  That's a lot like Sark falling off the stage at an alumni speaking event after engaging in a little drunken rambling.  If we couldn't nonsensically communicate with each other after having too much to drink this board would have 60% less posts and be 75% less interesting?  Who here hasn't showed up to the office hung over from the night before?  Possibly even drunk?  Possibly even deciding that the only cure for what ails them is a little hair of the dog?   Yeah- that's right.  Sark's epic receipt with eleventy hundred tequila shots?  Do we really believe that's not what client dinner looks like at the average Surly Barristers firm?  Of course it is.  But, he learned some stuff through all this.  It is known that what doesn't kill us will  make us stronger.  That's the binary we are dealing with here.  Death or personal growth.  Sark ain't dead so I guess we know that means he grew from the experience.  

 

On a serious note- up to this point in time Sark has lived a charmed life.  Beloved TV guide coverboy QB for BYU.  Huge early success at the QB coach and coordinator level.  National Championship rings.  Big contracts.  Successful turn around of the program in Washington.  Being given the biggest job (at the time) in all of college football.  Nobody has ever told him no. Things have always worked out for him. He is in the process of creating one of the biggest ego's imaginable.  And it all comes crashing down.  Disgrace.  National punch line.  Divorce.  Doesn't get to live in the same house with his kid.  Professional failure. Personal failure. Seriously, that's some really heavy shit.  And he had to walk through that and come out on the other side.  We have incredible story after incredible story on the Alcoholic and divorce thread about guys picking up the shattered pieces of their lives and building something new and beautiful.  Almost always the story is the same.  Success. Ego. Humility. Rebuild.  Looks like this has been Sarks path.  

From a football standpoint it probably ought to be pointed out that Sark took over a team that had 46 dudes on scholarship, was on probation, and capped at 65 scholarships.  Also, they had clearly come off their peak, Lane Kiffin was fired mid season for a reason, the cookie monster was given reigns to the program for 3 months before Sark took over so you know nothing sensible for long term stability was being done, and Sark went 9-4 in year 1 before getting himself fired in year 2.  USC wasn't the USC that Sark left anymore (thanks VY for breaking that dynasty), but it was recent enough in time to that the fan base was not willing to settle for anything other than ultimate success. Like us- circa 2014 or so when Mack won 8 games and was given the boot (he should have been- but it's obviously gotten worse since then). 

Takeaway from this- Sark embarrassed himself on a personal level and seems to have learned from it.  There's some stuff that shouldn't be talked about on the board about his personal life now.  IYKYN.  He clearly appears to be a better dude that people want to root for.  He doesn't seem to have some of the demons that once troubled him.  He doesn't seem like a dry drunk to me.  I don't know him personally, but I also don't know anyone that's interacted with him in the past 6 or 8 years that doesn't like him and wish him well.  From a football perspective USC wasn't in a great spot, he didn't make it better but also nobody has come in afterwards and had more success than him.  Not like he was the thumb that stuck out for his incompetence, he looks like all the other guys there.  

I don't think enough is made of this.  More often than not, our fellow Surlyites (Surlyicians?) cavalierly throw out terms like "he's a damned drunk" etc. etc.  This is Surly after all.

But, to go through the public humiliation he endured, to lose the millions of dollars in salary and other sources, to have to take what is ordinarily a very private struggle and have it play out under a huge spotlight, takes a special kind of person. A person, a leader who must be strong, must have resolve, must have humility, must be fearless and resourceful. 

They must practice rigorous authenticity and do uncomfortable work each and every day.  Because the demon is always there.

If and when players on the team come to him with their adversity or struggles, he has the ability to say .... "I was there."

Now, I don't know if Sark will end up being THE coach for us. For that matter, I am still struggling with my Coach Potato PTSD. He does have some warts. Questions remain about last year's disaster. BUT ...

The holes in the ship appear to have been mostly found and plugged.

Now, all this may be a load of crapola to the "Instant Gratification Internet Generation."  [But, Fuck 'em and Feed 'em Fish Heads!] I'm going to watch with great interest though.

[Vito Andolini 9440]

Jacking off to my Sark performance fantasy

Gives a whole new meaning to:

Fall Camp: Drippin'

[Huckleberry 34578]

One of the reasons to think a better record is in reach that isn't covered in this thread yet is that this isn't the 2008 Big 12. There aren't five teams in this conference that will belong in the top 10 at some point in the season like that year. 

There are also questions everywhere else in the Big 12 this year. 

[Wulaw Horn 19579]

48 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

One of the reasons to think a better record is in reach that isn't covered in this thread yet is that this isn't the 2008 Big 12. There aren't five teams in this conference that will belong in the top 10 at some point in the season like that year. 

There are also questions everywhere else in the Big 12 this year. 

I alluded to that elsewhere in the camp thread when I told someone "Are you under the impression we are playing the 85 Bears 12 times this year?"  I wanted to make this thread the optimist case for Sark in an overall program sense and not get too hung up on will it be 10 wins or 11 or 12 if things go right this year, but yeah- that shit needs to be priced in and it just flat isn't by the crowd that continues to bleat "we will be lucky to go 6-6, 7-5 is a total and complete stretch goal that just can't/won't happen this year".  That might well be the case. But it's not the only realistic outcome from this season.

What does you computer have us going this year and how often do we get to 9 wins in the regular season?  

 

[Longboard Horn 41350]

[TwiceHorn 32071]

2 hours ago, Lidig8r said:

I don't think enough is made of this.  More often than not, our fellow Surlyites (Surlyicians?) cavalierly throw out terms like "he's a damned drunk" etc. etc.  This is Surly after all.

But, to go through the public humiliation he endured, to lose the millions of dollars in salary and other sources, to have to take what is ordinarily a very private struggle and have it play out under a huge spotlight, takes a special kind of person. A person, a leader who must be strong, must have resolve, must have humility, must be fearless and resourceful. 

They must practice rigorous authenticity and do uncomfortable work each and every day.  Because the demon is always there.

If and when players on the team come to him with their adversity or struggles, he has the ability to say .... "I was there."

Now, I don't know if Sark will end up being THE coach for us. For that matter, I am still struggling with my Coach Potato PTSD. He does have some warts. Questions remain about last year's disaster. BUT ...

The holes in the ship appear to have been mostly found and plugged.

Now, all this may be a load of crapola to the "Instant Gratification Internet Generation."  [But, Fuck 'em and Feed 'em Fish Heads!] I'm going to watch with great interest though.

The point about his recovery from alcoholism and doing that work in public is a very good one.  That demonstrates quite a bit of "radical acceptance" that is necessary to make a solid recovery.  Most alkies want to crawl into a hole for a while, even if they don't take the bottle with them, and it's not until they get into recovery work that they can tolerate the spotlight again.

As I have said before, if his recovery is sound, he has the potential to be a much better version of himself.  Whether that includes being HFC at UT remains to be seen, but the whole deal can be viewed as a positive.

Edited August 25, 2022 by TwiceHorn

[Wulaw Horn 19579]

3 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

The point about his recovery from alcoholism and doing that work in public is a very good one.  That demonstrates quite a bit of "radical acceptance" that is necessary to make a solid recovery.  Most alkies want to crawl into a hole for a while, even if they don't take the bottle with them, and it's not until they get into recovery work that they can tolerate the spotlight again.

How would your opinion of that change if Sark wasn't an alcoholic and maybe just a heavy drinker/problem drinker?  Does a radical acceptance or at least honest inventory still need to be made?

[TwiceHorn 32071]

4 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

How would your opinion of that change if Sark wasn't an alcoholic and maybe just a heavy drinker/problem drinker?  Does a radical acceptance or at least honest inventory still need to be made?

I dunno.  I haven't had that experience.  But if he is working a program of recovery, whether necessary or not, it should improve him as a person, if not HFC.  I'd submit that just about anyone could benefit from it.  But the benefit is all the more remarkable when a person has brought themselves really low by demon alcohol.

However, his very ill-timed drunkenness speaks to "full-blown alcoholism" more than heavy, problem drinker.  It wouldn't surprise me if some of his last episodes followed periods of abortive sobriety.  That's often the way it goes.

Edited August 25, 2022 by TwiceHorn

[Hiphopopotamos 21186]

I celebrate Wulaw's entire catalog.

[Wulaw Horn 19579]

2 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

I celebrate Wulaw's entire catalog.

Thanks man. If I can make just one person happy a day...

[Tex Long 4661]

20 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

It wouldn't surprise me if some of his last episodes followed periods of abortive sobriety.  That's often the way it goes.

I have not followed his (past) drinking problems, so would find it helpful if you could list and describe some of his last episodes. TIA

[TwiceHorn 32071]

17 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

I have not followed his (past) drinking problems, so would find it helpful if you could list and describe some of his last episodes. TIA

One of the last straws at USC, IIRC, was him showing up shitfaced to some kind of fundraising or awards dinner.  

He failed to show up at a practice or two and then showed up and got sent home by assistants for being shitfaced.

Somewhat typically, an alkie will be non-stop kind of low-key drunk, noticeable, but not three sheets to the wind.  Functional or semi-functional.  Then they may try getting sober for a few days, weeks, or even months.  If they are white-knuckling that sobriety, it tends to end in catastrophic fashion.

As stated in the "Big Book:"

Quote

He has a positive genius for getting tight at exactly the wrong moment, particularly when some important decision must be made or engagement kept. He is often perfectly sensible and well balanced concerning everything except liquor, but in that respect he is incredibly dishonest and selfish. He often possesses special abilities, skills, and aptitudes, and has a promising career ahead of him. He uses his gifts to build up a bright outlook for his family and himself, and then pulls the structure down on his head by a senseless series of sprees.

 

Edited August 25, 2022 by TwiceHorn

[Tex Long 4661]

4 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

One of the last straws at USC, IIRC, was him showing up shitfaced to some kind of fundraising or awards dinner.  

He failed to show up at a practice or two and then showed up and got sent home by assistants for being shitfaced.

Yeah, those two were the only things I'd heard, although there veiled references to drunked problems at UDub and previously at SC. I think there were some about him at Atlanta, but not sure. I would expect nothing at Alabama, and there seem to be no stories floating around.

Definitely something to be wary of, but either he's clean, or he's learnt to hide it better. I'ma lean towards clean,  for now.

[Davis Lane 6003]

6 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Conclusion- what do you need to do at Texas to win big?

 Mack Brown said (or maybe it was DKR) the biggest job as the head coach is to get all the BB's back in the box. Sark is doing that to my way of thinking.  People like him.  He didn't go out of his way to be aloof and unpersonable (Mackovic and Herman). He's not clearly in over his head as a tactician (David M., and Charlie Strong).  The President supports him.  The AD is doing a good job raising money for him and giving him what he needs. The boosters and town are helping him.  This program is a giant. It's got all sorts of wonderful advantages you can point to that can help it succeed and thrive. We are at worst a top 10 overall program in the history of college football.  But, it has problems with inertia and it can be a real bitch to get moving, out of its own way, and have everyone rowing the same time on the oars.  I think Sark has buy in from who he needs buy in from.  He's got people in his corner.  He's been marked by PC, Saban and the Manning clan as a guy that can be trusted to run shit for them on the offensive side of the ball and career development. He's had success as a player/leader.  He knows what good looks like.  He's had some success in taking a program from wretched to above average, he's learned some things in his personal life.  He's succeeded and been brought low and matured and grown up.  Now he's in his late 40's/early 50's where a decent man processes through his experiences, folds in the wisdom he's learned along the way, and still has the vitality of a man young enough to take that all together and get the job done.  Sark and his experiences, while not resounding successes at every stage of his career is the man in time to restore the talent of this program, get everyone pulling in the right direction to do the hardest part which is break out of the initial inertia and lethargy killing the program, and has the tactical chops to keep it going once it gets in the right direction.

We are on the cusp of a golden age of Texas football and people are going to start seeing it this year when we win 9 or 10 games (counting possible big 12 title game and bowl game in this number), finish the year with a team that would throttle the team that began the year, ink another top 5 class, fill some needs in the portal and come into 2023 with the mindset of show me a loss.  

Thus ends my optimists case for Sark at UT.  

Note- I'm not saying it must go down this way or that the people who are negative are wrong. If he shits the bed again this year then he needs to be fired.  But, I think his personality, tactical chops, nailing of the offseason and talent acquisition should give him enough rope that we have an open mind this season and root for/hope for the best.  

Flame away. Call me an idiot. Tell me I can't drive an RV.  Or that I'm fat or ugly or whatever it is that will make you happy now.  If it goes bad I will ask Immamac if I can start the Fire Sark thread.  If I do have that honor (I doubt I will) my post would be titled "Fire Sark" and the inside of the post would be:   CTJ was right. I'm an idiot for ever having any hope it could work out. It's time. Boy did we fuck this up yet again.  There won't need to be a case made. It will be obvious to almost everyone.    

[ChickenNuggets 1661]

8 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Sark- decent track record at turning around a dumpster fire in Washington:

Sark is being given shit by our fan base and called 7 win Steve for his work with the Washington Huskies in his first job, but is this an epithet he should have to live down, or a building block to show he might be the right guy.  

About the Washington team he took over:  Ty Willingham was God awful there.  He was there for 4 years to clean up an mess and instead of doing that with any semblance of competence he went 11-37, with the arrow pointed directly into the ground.  Sark took over a program in as bad possible shape as any in the country.  He then went 34-29.  He won 5, 7,7, 7 and 8 games there.  He took over a dumpster fire, created a first round QB out of thin air (the shitty Jake Locker) and restored the talent level to such a point that the guy taking over for him had the foundation in place to win a conference title and earn a playoff berth pretty quickly.  He did yeomans work in resurrecting the program from the dead, and was rewarded with the job at SC.  People use this as a data point for failure but this looks like a guy who pointed the team into a much better direction and started building a program.  That's a good thing.  Reminds me a lot of Mack Brown at North Carolina, only he left in year 5 when the program was poised to get better while Mack stuck around and reaped the 10 win season reward for the building being put into it. I'd say, he took over a house on fire, put it out, cleaned the kitchen up and at least bought and assembled all the ingredients to build a cake, even if he didn't stick around long enough to mix the ingredients up and then put it in the oven to bake. 

Pos rep for the cake reference ++

[Wulaw Horn 19579]

1 minute ago, ChickenNuggets said:

Pos rep for the cake reference ++

You know I like me some cake. 

[Pato del Muerto 53451]

Jatch off. Jatch off fast. 

[ChickenNuggets 1661]

7 hours ago, Zeus said:

 

Jesus, what exactly is your fetish?

[ChickenNuggets 1661]

3 hours ago, Longboard Horn said:

I like the peaked lapels, very bold choice!

[ChickenNuggets 1661]

6 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

You know I like me some cake. 

I thought it was a Charlie Strong throw back... haha

[Wulaw Horn 19579]

3 minutes ago, ChickenNuggets said:

I thought it was a Charlie Strong throw back... haha

Oh it totally was. But any time you can work food into a conversation is a win. 

[BigSwingingD 719]

OK, @Wulaw HornI'm in on this circle jerk. 

2 things: 1) Don't jizz on me. 2) I am riding shotgun in the RV to Alabama next year. (Yes, I will pay my fair share and then some). Hear that you degenerates @immamac @RGBIII?  Miss BigSwingingD gave me the green light.

Personally, I have to look at Sark and the Horns with a "glass half full" view. It's what got me through the back end of Akers, Mackovic, the back end of Mack,  Strong and Herman. It's what helped me survive last year..AK, OU, OKST, Fucking Baylor, IA, KS.

I think you said it upthread or another thread...marginal improvement on Defense and improvement on Offense gets us there.  I believe we will see that.  We don't have to win them all. We won't. The ⁰positives from this off season have been huge. We need 8 wins. 

I have a close friend who has gotten to know Sark. He says he is the real deal...humble, genuine, smart, etc. He's a really good man. I am pulling for him.  More than anything, I am pulling for Texas to assume the position it deserves at the top. We are due and its time.

I prefer burnt orange kool-aid to cyanide. Thank you for reminding us of the positives and what could be.

Hook'em 

[UDontKnow 10568]

@Wulaw Horn You got all the thread followers going

[TwiceHorn 32071]

17 minutes ago, BigSwingingD said:

I am pulling for Texas to assume the position

This seems likely.

[LTtxfan 49986]

Just adding Kool-Aid to thread... New Quinn video

 

[McRib 102]

16 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:

It's almost like I wrote these actual sentences in this stream of posts in the last 30 minutes.:

 I have to admit, I was not at all happy about the Sark hire.  I wanted Urban badly. I was very bummed when we didn't get them. 

This is the Sark fork in the road. Most people didn’t like the hire, 5-7 validated that belief. 
 

Perhaps it’s irrational, especially with the historical context provided by @closetojumping, but I see the off-season moves optimistically and hopeful for the future. More so, I want that ‘20 Bama offense for us and thus want Sark to win and to do so quickly. I’d be good with 8 wins, a cohesive D and big flashes on offense. 
 

Last point, which you covered, Sark seems to run a program structured more like a pro team. As we go full NIL, we’ll need someone that can manage our athletes effectively in a “pro” environment.  

[6th Street 6686]

[AnTiM 1695]

Seeing a thread started by someone who appears to be intelligent, well informed and literate gives me hope that not all forums are hotbeds for hopeless and pointless argument.  This one fills the bill.

[Wulaw Horn 19579]

1 hour ago, AnTiM said:

Seeing a thread started by someone who appears to be intelligent, well informed and literate gives me hope that not all forums are hotbeds for hopeless and pointless argument.  This one fills the bill.

Thank you. There’s a real chance I’m wrong. I do believe everything I posted. It’s all possible. But there’s a very real chance he isn’t the guy. Nobody thought PC was the guy when SC hired him. 

[6th Street 6686]

Kansas

[LTtxfan 49986]

[TheAuditor 1047]

20 hours ago, orange dream said:

Love the thread.  Whether we agree or not, I don't really see the choice any of us have but to hope that this stuff is true and that somehow Sark can put it together. 

 

“Hope is the most powerful force in the universe. With hope you can inspire nations to greatness. With hope you can raise up the downtrodden. With hope you can ease the pain of unbearable loss. Sometimes all it takes is one person to make a difference.”

— William H. McRaven

"Hope is not a strategy"

- The Auditor

[Zeus 6848]

26 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

phlegm?

[closetojumping 65379]

4 hours ago, McRib said:

This is the Sark fork in the road. Most people didn’t like the hire, 5-7 validated that belief. 
 

Perhaps it’s irrational, especially with the historical context provided by @closetojumping, but I see the off-season moves optimistically and hopeful for the future. More so, I want that ‘20 Bama offense for us and thus want Sark to win and to do so quickly. I’d be good with 8 wins, a cohesive D and big flashes on offense. 
 

Last point, which you covered, Sark seems to run a program structured more like a pro team. As we go full NIL, we’ll need someone that can manage our athletes effectively in a “pro” environment.  

Thanks for the invite to this thread, but in the interests of all parties involved, I'll leave all of you chucklefucks alone here in this thread to circle jerk among your pollyanna selves.

[TriStone 1724]

23 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Thanks for the invite to this thread, but in the interests of all parties involved, I'll leave all of you chucklefucks alone here in this thread to circle jerk among your pollyanna selves.

 

[WinningIsHard 4171]

31 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Thanks for the invite to this thread, but in the interests of all parties involved, I'll leave all of you chucklefucks alone here in this thread to circle jerk among your pollyanna selves.

Big, if true. 

[Wulaw Horn 19579]

2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

Thanks for the invite to this thread, but in the interests of all parties involved, I'll leave all of you chucklefucks alone here in this thread to circle jerk among your pollyanna selves.

Just so long as you come give homage after we win 10 this year or point and laugh hysterically if we win 7. 

[CurlyDumps 4650]

I appreciate the thoughtful analysis and perspective on Sark's previous career stops. The Herman vs. Sark debate in the practice thread had me thinking about it. I get that coaching is ultimately a zero-sum game, but there can be a lot more to measuring performance than the W/L column.

I know 5-7 is most likely a data point that portends a three or four-and-out type coach, but didn't we have leads in the second half of every game during that 6 game losing streak? How close were we to going 7-5 instead of 5-7? Would everyone be freaking out if we went 7-6/8-5 with a bowl appearance? I still think he's an upgrade over Herman.

And btw, if Herman's a good coach - clearly better than Sark - why, after 19 months and a full offseason cycle, is he slummin it on CBS Sports D-Team? Yeah, yeah yeah, he won a Sugar Bowl. Charlie Strong won one, too.

[Pescado_Rojo 19583]

17 hours ago, ChickenNuggets said:

I like the peaked lapels, very bold choice!

It's the lapels you think are the bold choice in that outfit? 

[Wulaw Horn 19579]

33 minutes ago, CurlyDumps said:

I appreciate the thoughtful analysis and perspective on Sark's previous career stops. The Herman vs. Sark debate in the practice thread had me thinking about it. I get that coaching is ultimately a zero-sum game, but there can be a lot more to measuring performance than the W/L column.

I know 5-7 is most likely a data point that portends a three or four-and-out type coach, but didn't we have leads in the second half of every game during that 6 game losing streak? How close were we to going 7-5 instead of 5-7? Would everyone be freaking out if we went 7-6/8-5 with a bowl appearance? I still think he's an upgrade over Herman.

And btw, if Herman's a good coach - clearly better than Sark - why, after 19 months and a full offseason cycle, is he slummin it on CBS Sports D-Team? Yeah, yeah yeah, he won a Sugar Bowl. Charlie Strong won one, too.

He’s not got a job bc he doesn’t want a job (full time coaching). He’s getting paid to do nothing by Ut. If he goes and does something somewhere else UT will offset what they owe him. He will have a job coaching full time somewhere the moment he wants one. 

[LTtxfan 49986]

 

[LTtxfan 49986]

Might put a smile on a few folks faces... 

 

[Murfdogg21 4563]

On 8/25/2022 at 10:27 AM, WBT said:

Not that I didn't believe you but there it is

How many wives does he have, and if more than one is that what drove him to drink (noncaffeinated beverages)?

[Wulaw Horn 19579]

On 8/25/2022 at 11:12 AM, Wulaw Horn said:

Sark in year 1 at Texas- the pantry was pretty empty.

Y'all know about Texas.  We don't have to relitigate what happened last season. But just know this- we had Casey Thompson as our QB, not a single player got drafted, our WR room was the worst I've ever seen (outside of X- who wouldn't be here if Sark didn't go get him) our OL was abysmal, did I mention not a single player got drafted?  And still, there are no obvious draft candidates on Defense, which is the part of the team that has the most older players.  It was bad.  Really bad.  But I still saw really good game plans that schemed deep shots that our incompetent QB just derped.  IF you couldn't see that Sark dialed up the Touchdown play brilliantly many a time last year and players didn't execute you know less about football than I do.  I don't know much about football. A guy that knows football knows 7 different ways to get a RB isolated on a LB in space. I know none of them.  I do know when I see someone else has set that up though. And Sark did that kind of stuff really well.  Lots of people bitch about no adjustments at half time and blowing games. It sucked.  What I would argue, in the defense of Sark is that the lack of adjustments were a fact because of the lack of talent.  Sark drew up looks and schemes and called plays that were well designed for pretty shitty players.  Once he ran out of scheme based trickery, the other coach saw what happened he ended up getting shut down.  

I have a bitch with only 2 game plans and it was the same failure against the drop 8 of Arkansas and ISU. Sark didn't have anything lined up for that.  Was it personal limitations?  Scheme stuborness?  I don't know, but he needs to get a white board answer for that for sure. 

5-7 isn't our standard, but we played a lot of close games, won almost none of them, and had just shit at the OL, QB, WR (outside of X) and most of the defense, along with some bad luck and bad coaching.  We didn't get a normal spring/summer to install.  That can't be helpful in starting a new regime.  But you could see some stuff that shows he is a really good offensive mind.

So- my first point in defense of Sark last year was “just know this- we had Casey Thompson as our QB”. I think our fan base vastly underestimated what a selfish loser that dude was. 
couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of shitheads that he joined up with Nebraska. 

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On 8/25/2022 at 4:29 PM, Wulaw Horn said:

Thanks man. If I can make just one person happy a day...

You'd be 1/20th s.Austin's mom?

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So- my first point in defense of Sark last year was “just know this- we had Casey Thompson as our QB”. I think our fan base vastly underestimated what a selfish loser that dude was. 
couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of shitheads that he joined up with Nebraska. 

As a Northwestern fan due to my significant other, I was happy with the result. Yet, I felt that sick to my gut feeling in the second half I had all last year watching CT and Nebraska lose a game they should have won. I’m a bit more optimistic about texas this year after watching that.

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So is this where we can read about today’s simulated game day?