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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.
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Sark currently hammering home the importance of consistency in leadership.
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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?”
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Sark on leadership: “You’ve got to have authenticity and you’ve got to be transparent.”
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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.
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Sark: “Leadership to me means stepping into challenges and being vulnerable.”
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Sark on how Texas operates: “This is not a dictatorship. Everyone has a role.”
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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.
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Sark is now getting into the culture problem Texas had during his first season.
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Sark: “Who you are some of the time is who you are all of the time.”
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Attitude is such a key piece of the Texas culture and how Sark leads.
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Sark: “There’s no filter or photoshop for energy.”
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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?”
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Sark: “If I try to be one of those two guys, I’m going to fail.”
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Sark said he was 33 years old when he got the Washington job, “and I didn’t know what the hell I was doing.”
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Sark: “You have to fail and you have to learn from your failures.”
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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.
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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.
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Sark said it’s going to be better in the long run if Texas kids stay within the state to play college football.
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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.
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Sark: “When your kids come play for us, we’re more invested in them than they if they went out of the state.”
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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."
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Sark tells the coaches that now isn't the time to throw their hands in the air amid the game's changing landscape. "We can't step away," he said.
