Best Of

This is probably obvious, but I have to believe that Sark accidentally gave Kim more access than any other UW coach. Kim interpreted that to mean they were actually friends, or at least that he has some inside knowledge that makes him special. He gets to achieve 2 inches of thunder when he can go running to big boy media and tout his history as Sark whisperer.

You really should charge your phone

DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,351

October 2022 73.109.104.169

I dealt with Sark a lot when he was at Texas. First thing to know is he is incredibly bright. He learned a lot at UT and fought some demons. He's a bright, articulate, charming, engaging guy who is also competitive as hell. He's appeared to put his demons behind him.

You're going to love Sark. It will be interesting to see who he fills his staff with. Knowing the competitive nature of Sark, I'm sure he negotiated a large assistant salary pool. If he gets Tosh Lupoi on staff, watch out. Tosh is one of the best recruiters I've ever dealt with. He's currently with Atlanta.

He's an outstanding recruiter and is phenomenal working with QB's. He trusts his guys and has an edge. Guys love playing for him.

The Dallas Cowboys didn't hit a home run with Sark. They hit a grand slam.

Arch must really suck

Ooops

You've got to admire his ability to fail up.

I’m interested in dating Giselle too, just putting that out there.

Will his raging boner ever stop for this guy?

@DerekJohnson

It's happening because everybody is trying to get ahead of the new coach search so that they can have it done immediately at the end of the regular season so that they can do damage control on both their HS recruiting and internal roster via NIL/Portal

The problem that we ran into with the DeBoer to Fisch transition was that it was outside of those windows and that the current "rules" basically fuck over a program that was in our situation because it can be fair game on people trying to take away your players but you have no remedy to really rebuild your roster. If you find yourself in that situation it's almost impossible to be any kind of good the following year and it still takes some time to build out your roster and its depth (as we are seeing this year).

So for all of those people that are begging for somebody to hire Fisch away, do so in understanding the following:

1. We will be navigating a coaching search AFTER the balance of the top candidates have already been landed
2. We will likely have limited time to make a hire before running into the HS recruiting & portal windows leading to a likely protracted search that increases the opportunity of making a poor hire
3. You'll likely be hitting the reset on a competitive window taking us back far closer to 2024 than where we would be heading into next year with the status quo
4. The "can build back fast" angle only works if you're going overly aggressive into the portal which requires A) a bunch of NIL money (spoiler: UW doesn't have that) and B) assumes that the players in the portal are good (most are players that aren't good and looking for a fresh start) and C) that the combo of A + B means that somehow your plan revolves around enticing the good established players to choose a rebuilding UW over programs that are on a far sturdier foundation and way closer to competing for a Natty than UW would be in Year 1 under the next guy

I have no illusions about Fisch being here for 10+ years like so many thing is normal … as I always say CP was the perfect fit for this program and he lasted 6 years.

I don't even have any strong opinions on whether Fisch is or isn't the guy … it's still too early for me to say that given what he inherited.

But I do know that there's almost zero chance that this program is in a better spot in 2026 with a different coach.

I do hope that when Fisch is done here that his next job is in the NFL and not somewhere else in College Football because that means he's had tangible success here.

And for those that think you should just fire Fisch now … what kind of message is that sending throughout the coaching community? Do you actually think that you're going to get a high-end coach by doing that?