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For Sark, consistency and discipline are critical to how the program operates. Consistency in expectations on and off the field and discipline in daily routines.

This talk is giving me a pretty good picture on why Texas has been a team that can be described as coach-fed and player-led.

Sark currently hammering home the importance of consistency in leadership.

Those tools help build trust, but Sark wants his coaches and players to feel love. He wants everybody in the building to feel valued. ”If I can create an atmosphere of love in our locker room,” he said, “how cool is that?”

Sark on leadership: “You’ve got to have authenticity and you’ve got to be transparent.”

On the first Culture Wednesday of every season, Sark gives his story to the players unfiltered. He said there’s a lot of tears and some tough days he has to relive, but he feels vulnerability is one of the things that makes him an effective leader.

Just because you can catch the ball doesn’t mean you have the hands to play receiver at a high level.

Sark: “Leadership to me means stepping into challenges and being vulnerable.”

Sark on how Texas operates: “This is not a dictatorship. Everyone has a role.”

Sark running down the correlation between the team GPA and success on the field. Team GPA at the end of the spring was 3.13. It was a 2.32 at the end of Sark’s first spring.

Sark is now getting into the culture problem Texas had during his first season.

Sark: “Who you are some of the time is who you are all of the time.”

Attitude is such a key piece of the Texas culture and how Sark leads.

Sark: “There’s no filter or photoshop for energy.”

One quote Sark lives by is something Sean McVay told him a few years ago: “Are the habits you have today on par with the dreams you have for tomorrow?”

Sark: “If I try to be one of those two guys, I’m going to fail.”

Sark said he was 33 years old when he got the Washington job, “and I didn’t know what the hell I was doing.”

Sark: “You have to fail and you have to learn from your failures.”

Sark’s clinic talk is going to be on leadership. He starts talking about how Pete Carroll and Nick Saban are the two biggest influences on his coaching career.

And he’s not just talking about kids picking the Longhorns. He said there are too many good FBS programs in Texas for kids to go outside of the state.

Sark said it’s going to be better in the long run if Texas kids stay within the state to play college football.

Sark was blown away recently when he called the coach of a high-level recruit in the state of Texas who was getting ready to make a decision and the coach didn’t know anything regarding the decision.

Sark: “When your kids come play for us, we’re more invested in them than they if they went out of the state.”

Sark: "The programs in the state of Texas right now, they're at an all-time high." Sark even said Texas A&M "is in the best hands its been in a long time with Mike Elko."