Down with the God King Steve Sarkisian

[Chris Sweet]

1 hour ago, hookemrj13 said:

Idk, Mods have been too quiet today. Not enough Articles from them...

something is brewing...

Sark to Dolphins, re-united with Ewers. Saban off the TV set and onto the 40 acres in an odd twist of fate. An offer is on the table for Mack to be his OC.

Desmond tried to tell you, ya dig?

🤪

Edited 2 hours ago by Chris Sweet

[Stuey22]

Yeah, something is happening.  We got nothing here about Goosby committing yesterday, I had to find it elsewhere.  Then the vague post about something good coming out and silence since…

oh and Sark needs to decide what’s going on.  My gut says he’s had one foot out the door for weeks

[_everyoneshere]

42 minutes ago, Stuey22 said:

Yeah, something is happening.  We got nothing here about Goosby committing yesterday, I had to find it elsewhere.  Then the vague post about something good coming out and silence since…

oh and Sark needs to decide what’s going on.  My gut says he’s had one foot out the door for weeks

There was a post 3 minutes after his scheduled announcement time and video on YouTube..

Edit: whatever the positive news is timetable changed, not on the OTF staff

 

Edited 1 hour ago by _everyoneshere

[Thorn007]

horns are 11-1 vs. sec teams not named geo since we joined. 0-3 vs. geo. we have a geo problem. luckily they're not on our schedule next few years. geo has a bama problem. oh. st has  mich problem. it happens. replace a few lineman rb a couple on D and we're back yo. u guys really want dan mullen. hes comin if steve is gone. grass isn't greener on the other side

[whereiend]

50 minutes ago, Thorn007 said:

horns are 11-1 vs. sec teams not named geo since we joined. 0-3 vs. geo. we have a geo problem. luckily they're not on our schedule next few years. geo has a bama problem. oh. st has  mich problem. it happens. replace a few lineman rb a couple on D and we're back yo. u guys really want dan mullen. hes comin if steve is gone. grass isn't greener on the other side

Dan Mullen is a good idea honestly. I didn't even think of that. I would totally do Dan Mullen combined with someone running a professional style personnel department. HC being in charge of both is a bad model.

[akrupa23]

The God-King Sark is leading us down the narrow path to Victory!

[whereiend]

4 minutes ago, akrupa23 said:

The God-King Sark is leading us down the narrow path to Victory!

😂 I want it to be so believe me. But the track record shows that this guy can't do all three of these jobs at the level we need.

[LTWOTIMES]

This is getting real sad. Sark has flipped this program on it's head but that's still not good enough. Decade of nothing but what we have now, is still not enough. 

Edited 17 minutes ago by LTWOTIMES

[akrupa23]

4 minutes ago, whereiend said:

😂 I want it to be so believe me. But the track record shows that this guy can't do all three of these jobs at the level we need.

I do think changes need to be made, and I’m hopeful Sark makes the right calls whatever they may be. But thinking this was a natty contender team with a virtually brand new line and a new starting QB seems naive in hindsight. I remember in the offseason a good chunk of the community (and I’m pretty sure Bobby explicitly said it too) talking about 2026 really being the year. I think a lot of the negativity right now isn’t necessarily warranted and should be save for if we don’t look any better next year. 

[whereiend]

Just now, LTWOTIMES said:

This is getting real sad. Sark has flipped this program on it's head but that's still not good enough. Decade of nothing but what we have now, is still not enough. 

I'm a massive fan of Sark as a pre-portal/NIL coach. But I think his model is outdated and isn't going to win championships going forward. Roster management in the portal era is a full time job. Coordinating an offense and staying at the top of the game is a full time job. Being a head coach is a full time job.

Sark isn't Superman and can't do all of these at an elite level. As long as he tries we will be second place to the programs that do a better job of delegating responsibility.

[whereiend]

3 minutes ago, akrupa23 said:

I do think changes need to be made, and I’m hopeful Sark makes the right calls whatever they may be. But thinking this was a natty contender team with a virtually brand new line and a new starting QB seems naive in hindsight. I remember in the offseason a good chunk of the community (and I’m pretty sure Bobby explicitly said it too) talking about 2026 really being the year. I think a lot of the negativity right now isn’t necessarily warranted and should be save for if we don’t look any better next year. 

It's the portal era, though. Throwing away a season with an inexperienced QB and OL is mismanagement. As Gerry often says there is no longer an excuse for being young.

[LTWOTIMES]

1 minute ago, whereiend said:

I'm a massive fan of Sark as a pre-portal/NIL coach. But I think his model is outdated and isn't going to win championships going forward. Roster management in the portal era is a full time job. Coordinating an offense and staying at the top of the game is a full time job. Being a head coach is a full time job.

Sark isn't Superman and can't do all of these at an elite level. As long as he tries we will be second place to the programs that do a better job of delegating responsibility.

I'm not sure we can say that. The model produced back to back semi final appearances. 10 games in with a first year starting QB and now we need to change everything. I'm not there

[SchoolColors]

2 hours ago, Chris Sweet said:

Sark to Dolphins, re-united with Ewers. Saban off the TV set and onto the 40 acres in an odd twist of fate. An offer is on the table for Mack to be his OC.

Desmond tried to tell you, ya dig?

🤪

Poor Quinn 😞

[Steamboat Willie]

5 hours ago, whereiend said:

From my vantage point there is a clear root cause of the downfall of the football program. It is Sark being the God King (simultaneously HC, GM, and OC).

I would argue he has clearly failed in all three capacities.

- As a GM he turned one of the largest NIL budgets into an exceptionally mediocre roster, particularly on offense

- As an OC he has presented an offense that can't run the ball, can't consistently protect the passer, can't score in the red zone, and can barely pick up first downs against top level opponents

- As a HC he has a team that is extremely penalty and mistake prone and incapable of complimentary football

I don't think Sark is bad at coaching football, but he is just trying to do way too much. And this is with having some family/personal dynamics that likely prevent the level of workaholism seen in some coaches. The solution is pretty obvious: he needs to shed at least one of these responsibilities and ideally two.

We need a real NFL style GM that makes NIL decisions independent of the coaching staff. We need a real offensive coordinator that calls plays and ideally even runs his own system and game planning. Sark needs to be a leader that leads and delegates, not micro manage (poorly) every aspect of the program.

Is there any hope of this happening? Is the guy introspective enough to recognize these deficiencies and make changes? Will CDC force his hand? Will he go to the NFL and give us a chance to rebuild the program with a new model (and if so would we take that chance, or just hire a new God King?).

Fair point, but let’s be accurate about what these OL guys are. Sark didn’t inherit them — he recruited most of them — but they weren’t recruited to be instant-impact, SEC-level frontline starters. They were taken as developmental depth pieces, guys you hope turn into contributors in Year 3 or 4, not anchors of the line.

And that’s exactly the issue right now:

Texas is having to start players who were originally projected as long-term depth because the higher-ceiling recruits (the Banks/Campbell/Brockermeyer era guys) either left early, got hurt, didn’t develop fast enough, or didn’t fill out the pipeline the way it ideally should’ve progressed.

You can criticize Sark’s offensive roster build — that’s fair. But it’s not fair to pretend he walked into a stocked pantry and somehow burned the ingredients. The truth is he built the OL room with a mix of big hits and long-term projects, and now those “projects” are being thrown into starting roles earlier than planned.

That’s why it looks messy right now.
Not because he inherited a disaster, and not because he’s a “God King” micromanager — but because Texas is asking depth-grade players to play SEC-grade roles.

Big difference.