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I don’t know who all the options were and I doubt anyone does. But you will never convince me that KD was the best option or that anyone besides CU would have hired him.
Exactly right, been saying that. It's not who he is. Coaching is to put your guys in the best position to be successful, not making them run **** that they won't be. Tailor the offense to your QB, period.
This hasn't sunk to Embree level yet but it's getting Danny/McIntyre-esque in a hurry. Bielema tool the Illinois job. I had my eye on Buffalo U.'s Lance Liepold for awhile but he volunteered to suffer at Kansas. Missed him by a year. KD WAS kind of a panic choice. I used to get ripped by saying that CU was a ****ty job, but it is. Still should be able to attract slightly younger versions of Rocky Long, Todd Graham, etc, guys with functional assistant connections who want to bank a few P5 dollars and can go 6-6 or 7-5 while being able to blank out the general nonsense in Boulder and CU. That appears to be the upside and honestly I thought that KD was probably that guy. Maybe still is - we shall see. I have limited angst in this as I had season tix for a couple of McIntyre's years but dropped them, and I don't donate $$ to public institutions. Still would like to see success on the field for the players.
In the NFL though it's easier to add and get rid of talent. In college the players pick you even though you try and pick them. And after they arrive you have to develop them.
Embree was dealt an impossible situation. Danny had gutted CUFB, I think we all know why.
I want to point out for everyone acting like Sark is a homerun. He has a 48-36 record to KD's 40-31 record. Basically identical win percentage. That's also at places like USC, Texas and Washington where he had a ton more resources than he would at CU. Also KD is 5-4 at CU compared to Mel Tucker's 5-7. This weekend was embarrassing but you have to look at big picture. Hell I'm sure Nebraska would love to have Pelini rn compared to Scott Frost.
I never said he was a home run.
KaChing - This x10. The Sark love is mystifying. So is the TX hire. He won't last there.
I don't know whether Sark will do well at UT. I would just say if Sark brought his winning percentage to Boulder (.571), CU would: (1) be bowl eligible more often than not, and (2) bring the best W-L percentage since Rick Neuheisel. Right now, I would gladly take that.
Sark also took over a UW team that was 0-12 when he got there, whereas Dorrell took over a winning program at UCLA. Time will tell on Sark at Texas, but context in those winning percentages matters here.
Also not to hammer you on this, but Tucker is 3-0 this year and just did something last weekend that Dorrell has never done in his entire head coaching career - beat a ranked opponent on the road.
And the USC job? Context does matter. Karl Dorrell took over a program with 3 coaches in 3 years. That had one winning season in the last 15 years and in his first year on the job goes 4-2.
Most importantly: if we were recruiting at 80% of Texas’ current 2022 class, it would be the best class we’ve signed in decades.
At USC? He went 12-6 and beat Nebraska in the Holiday Bowl while dealing with a serious alcohol problem. Drunk Sark would have been the best coach CU had since Barnett.
12-6 at USC is terrible. Clay Helton just got fired and has been on the hotseat his entire tenure for having that same win percentage.
Apparently you missed the part about him being an alcoholic. If you legitimately think that Steve Sarkisian in 2021 is the same person as he was then professionally or personally, you’re misguided.
You can't defend him (by liking comments) as a good candidate for turning around Washington and beating Nebraska when he was at USC then simultaneously say disregard that time period because he is a completely different person now then he was at USC.
Oh, heck, I'd take that winning % in a heartbeat right now. My only point was that Sark is a pretty overrated/expensive way to get that .571....BTW, props to him on his substance abuse battle; it can't be easy.
Do you think Dorrell is a better coach than Sark (accounting for their full body of work including recruiting)? If not then I don’t know what you’re arguing about?
Agreed.
I've said it before, that 4-2 is 5-7 in a real season. Guaranteed.
I think at the end of the day Sark probably turns CU down regardless, but if you believe the rumors that he was basically on board, but wanted to bring in an entirely new staff with no one being retained (which allegedly was a deal breaker for Rick George with Chev and Hagan), then it wasn't as cut and dry as "Sark turned CU down". There's also the fact that Saban came back and made him the highest paid coordinator in history and likely sold him on the fact that one more season at Bama and a National Championship on his resume would allow him to pick his next Head Coaching job.
Losing breeds resentment.
Sark really wanted a HC job in 2019 and 2020.
