TiersHsotBoobs said it best. Real football schools dont INTENTIONALLY hire "transitional" coaches.
It was a bad hire. UW hired a guy with no experience, who hadnt built anything, who didnt know anything about defense, who had always had the best players, who had never had to overcome adversity, who didnt know anyone else in the business (Holt AWESOME!?), who had little leadership experience to rebuild a football program that had just been smashed to bits by 6 years of poor leadership, AND they overpaid for him and his assistants. In 2007 and 2008 almost any fucktard could coach USCs offense, Pete Carrol was running the defense and Sark had every advantage a coordinator could have. Sark wasnt required to even win games. Sarks only job during those two years at USC was to make sure he didnt lose the game for USC while playing with players better than any other pac10 team.
But that is not the worst part, the worst part is that UW has welded their fate to this no name learn on the job savior of our program. The UW AD doesnt view Sark as transitional, they see his fate in theirs. Woodward wont ever fire Sark, ever, because the second he does is the second he loses his own job. Woodward has learned that as long as he doesnt admit defeat the fucktards will continue to hope and shovel him money and praise. Results dont matter, perception and gullibility matters at UW.
7-6 > 7-6
As a side note I do think that someday Sark could become a decent coach. Get fired, head to a smaller school, learn how to be an actual coach rather than a rahrah offensive coordinator, and learn that the details do fucking matter before getting hired to a major program but that wont happen here.