Still gay as fuck for Sark

[theknowledge]

Arch must really suck

Sam Huard2.0 plus at best
This tells me Sark is open to bailing because he will hurt his own stock because he’s failing to coach up Manning and doesn’t want to be in a position to demote him next year. He also understands they aren’t a legitimate contender with Arch at the helm. He needs to reach into the portal and his ego is probably bruised since his star pupil is jag.

That and HC in college is probably maddening with the transfer portal and nil. Being in the NFL would be exponentially less of a headache and only football. Sark never struck me as a guy that was close to all in as a mentor like most coaches. He’s driven by his ego.

Except he currently coaches for the Yankees or the Dodgers with zero salary cap. What’s he gonna do when every team has the same payroll? If he can’t win at Texas he can’t win anywhere.

Texas isn’t all that great. A lot of money. They aren’t a huge power like Bama, Ohio State, Georgia, etc. Like it or not, Sark has performed better than their previous 3-4 coaches before him.

Totally agree that he has been better. The three other coaches didn't have unlimited free agency though. Did they pay for players before NIL? Absolutely. Did they pay the roster 30-40 million? No. No one would be able to hide those kinds of funds. Sark has a top 4 roster every year and will continue to as long as he's there. He can buy whoever he wants. if Bama were a better job he would have lobbied for it. My Bama friend still loves Sark and would have been ecstatic to have him. It doesn't have the kind of money Texas has though, so he stayed pat. I just don't see him ever winning the big one. He's too anxiety ridden, too high strung. He's weird. I could be wrong. One Deshaun Watson or Vince Young type and even Sark might get over the top. If he's truly looking to get out of college then even he probably doesn't think he can win at this level. It's telling if true.

 

[creepycoug]

I'm pretty sure I know how this happened. At the tim, I was around the program a lot more and I saw some of this, not up close but also not just through word of mouth or scuttlebutt (though there was a lot of that). You have to remember, when Sark got this job, the "failing up" rep wasn't out there yet. He was a (fake) coordinator at THE program every Husky loves who got a job at a program that was taking a flyer on him.
So, in the beginning, Sark seemed, not deer in headlights, but also not nearly as confident as he would later learn to be. What I'm sure happened with dipshit Kim was that Sark at that time was ingratiating himself with everyone here, and I mean everyone, and I think he assumed Grinolds and those guys were influencers among Husky boosters and backers. And there's no reason why he wouldn't; he was new around here and Grinolds totally acts that part.
So, he treats Kim as more important than he actually is and by the time he figures it out, if he ever figured it out, he was already starting to lose support around Montlake and Kim was in control of an outlet that aggregated some approval for him.
If the current version of Sark were to have gotten the Washington job, there's little doubt in my mind that he sees Kim coming and pushes him to the side. Kim is no influencer and it doesn't take a genius to see that when you've been here for 5 minutes.
By the time he does see it, pressure is mounting around here and he needs all the friends he can get. Nobody, including him, had any idea Pat Haden would Pat Haden.
PS: Sark would last 5 minutes in the NFL as a HC. He's not cut out for leadership.

 

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@theknowledge
Huh?

 

[theknowledge]

@theknowledge
Huh?

Exactly! There’s a picture of him before playing UW in one of the Bowl games, not sure if it was Alamo or Sugar, where he’s alone, leaning against a wall looking like he wanted to be anywhere but where he was.

 

[creepycoug]

@theknowledge
Huh?

Exactly! There’s a picture of him before playing UW in one of the Bowl games, not sure if it was Alamo or Sugar, where he’s alone, leaning against a wall looking like he wanted to be anywhere but where he was.

He knew by the time both of those games happened that he had a Washington problem. He also knew in '23 that if that Oregon team couldn't beat Washington he was going to have a hard time doing it.
I love that every time he faced the program he bolted on he got his ass wiped. You know damn well that's personally embarrassing to him and, short of beating Alabama or Georgia, there's probably no program in the country he'd rather beat than UW.