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Would be nice if Sark did that.

It has worked ok for us in past seasons by holy cow it is a disaster this year. And we've played 11 games, so it is what is. Not sure why Sark has throw away 10 plays a game checking to see if 12 personnel will finally work this week. Please stay in 11 vs A&M Sark.

I believe every single time the offense stalled, it was a result of Sark trying to do 12 personnel (and in particular, slow developing play action passing out of 12). He needs to shelve this crap for good this season IMO. We absolutely shredded Arkansas when spread out in 11 personnel, but then would get behind the chains any time we tried to do 12 just because Sark can't help himself. Someone let Sark know we made it to the national championship game with a bad OL and no TEs one time. We need to run a Colt McCoy style of offense exclusively...

I don't see why Vanderbilt or even OU would have to lose. If we beat A&M have the same conference record as them. The extra loss is because we played Ohio State on the road and they did not... We'd have 3 top 10 wins including head to heads over both of those schools. Particularly Vanderbilt would not have a case over us at all in that scenario.

This. What sent me over the edge is seeing Sark in these press conferences be completely unable to acknowledge that anything has gone wrong. Strongly disagree with OP about Sark being the OC. OC is a full time job. Sark was a good OC 5 years ago but he has fallen behind big time. There is not enough time in the day for him to run our program and stay current as an elite OC. The results of his piss poor offense speak for themselves.

Fair enough. In any case, someone needs to figure out where the hell our NIL budget went? How did we not have dry powder for RB and OL? We have to be smarter on the moneyball front or we aren't winning anything in this era.

I've never said we should fire him, just that he desperately needs an OC. I also think the model of an independent personnel arm is going to be better going forward. Sark is too close to the players to make the hard NIL decisions and as a result we blew a giant budget on a mediocre team.

Eh, Sark failed big time as a GM not upgrading OL in the portal. He then failed big time as an OC not deploying an offensive style that can survive with subpar OL play. He frankly failed as a HC in putting so much faith in Kyle Flood. Why is he failing at so many different aspects of his job? I think it's simply that he is one man (and likely one man with a stressful personal life) and he doesn't have enough time and energy to do three full time jobs. It's not excusable to take on too much work and then fail to deliver. He needs to do a better job of delegating responsibility. (Or CDC needs to do it for him).

I like Sark and I don't want him gone as our coach. I just think he can't be championship level HC, OC, and GM at the same time. At the absolute minimum he needs and OC, and I'd prefer an independent personnel department as well.

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.

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 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.

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.

He has the GM title but everyone knows Sark is the real GM, in the professional sports sense of that word. My key point is that someone has to do the job of deciding exactly how much NIL should be spent on Deandre Moore (as a random example) as opposed to going out and getting someone from the portal. It's obviously Sark doing this right now. This is an incredibly important role in the NIL era, and it's a lot of work. Doing this, being the head coach, and also coordinating the offense is absurd. It's no surprise that we look bad on all three of those fronts.

Sark is absolutely the effective GM. He is the one who decides how much of the NIL budget to allocate to each player. There are very few NFL teams that put the HC in charge of this. And then Sark is also the OC and play caller on top of this. It's absurd. No successful professional organization would work this way.