hearing mixed things on the Sark hiring

I would expect some good players to be on the market pretty soon. Texas AD Del Conte did phone/zoom interviews with many in their early signing class and promised Herman would be back to squash the rumors about Urban Meyer to get them to sign.

They are pissed that they were lied to.   I a not very sympathetic to the players if a guy get fired after a couple of years or even after 1 years. At least you got to play for the coach that recruited you for 1 year.  But this case is different, #1 you will not get a chance to play for the coach that recruited you and you had a relationship with for for 2-3 years. #2 the AD flat out lied to you.

Every letter of intent that was signed early should be null and void if a player want out.

Rock1Aggie wrote:

hearing mixed things on the Sark hiring

I just don’t see how it’s an upgrade...someone on Twitter said it best - it’s like driving past Chili’s and pulling into Applebee’s parking lot

Last edited by OneStopReb (1/03/2021 7:33 am)

Little post I made on a A&M boardThis was Sark's second stint at Saban rehab. He went to the falcons after his first stint, got back into the same habits he was fired at USC for. ATL sugar coated the reasons for the firing, but the proof was on the field and non putting in the work. Atl fired some other offensive asst at the time, but that is normal as they were bringing in a new OC Dirk Koetter and he brought Mike Mularkey with him to replace the other fired staff member. Saban took him back to rehab him again he had planned for Sark to be a analyst again like the first time he had hired him, but Dan Enos surprisingly left as he was the QB coach at Bama and next in line to be the OC. Enos took the OC job at Miami ( a bad decision as he was fired by Manny Diaz a year later). So Saban sat Sark down in a long interview for the OC job and decided to roll the dice on Sark and himself being able to help Sark keep his person demons at Bay. I have no idea how well Sark will do at Texas, he has been basically a .500 HC at two very traditionally winning programs in Wash and USC. Has been a good OC. But remember he was QB coach at USC when Kiffin was OC in 2005-2006, then a analyst at Bama in 2016 when Kiffin was the OC and Sark was only OC for the one game after Kiffin left for the HCing job at FAU( Sark lost that one game to Clemson in the NAtional Title game). So he doesnt really have a long record of being a OC other than the past 2 years at Bama with the best players in the country. Lets presume he called plays as HC at Washington when he was the HC, that went 34-29. When he returned to USC as HC we know that Clay Helton was his OC and called plays. After Sark was fired in interview after interview Helton and players commented on Helton had been the play caller. The success at USC many people think was Sark but it was Kiffin calling as OC, Same in Sark;s first stop at Bama, it was Kiffin's offense. So we will see at Texas how it will be without the best players in the country and Kiffin;s offense how this will work.Will be interesting to see him on the recruiting road. As a A&M fan, I will take Jimbo Fisher and smile at all the above