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For me it's the 2011 game against Stanford. Here we are, 5-1, ranked #25 in the country, 9-1 in our last ten games, thinking we're the shit. Stanford comes out and runs the same power running play with the guard pulling, and racks up 446 yards rushing and 65 points. We put all 11 players in the box and they still got 10 ypc. Classic.
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Then in 2011 all be it smoke and mirrors started off 5-1 so I was willing to admit I could be wrong. Then the blowouts started to happen. My doog friends kept telling me he is only losing to teams that are really good which at the time at Nebraska, at Stanford, vs Oregon and at USC so I was like whatever.
Then 2011 we travel to a terrible Oregon State team that lost so Sacramento State that year. The team obviously wasn't prepared at all. Sark proclaimed Price was too hurt to start. Then first quarter UW did okay as Polk had 12 carries.
We couldn't stop them so Sark ditched the Run as Polk had only 11 carries the final 3 quarters. He continues to stick with the ineffective Montana who keep in mind was Sark's recruit.
Then as the Huskies are getting blown out in the 4th quarter by 17 points, Sark puts in Price which made no sense. If Price wasn't healthy enough to start, play when the game is tied or only trail by 7 then why is he okay to play down 17???
Carroll had started Whitehurst a month earlier then pulled him after 3 series for T-Jack. I remember on twitter Softy going off on Carroll "How can you say he's not healthy enough to start but yet you play him?!!". Yet didn't say one fucking word about Sark's decision.
At that point I realized this coach can't even beat bad teams on the road, that every year he personally will lose at least one game by his terrible coaching.
Blackshirts go wild. That was it. This team was beat. I think Nebraska scored like 3 plays later.
I gave up on Sark long before that loss, but that one epitomized the era better than any other.
Moral victories are for the weak but if they are competitive in that game, it gives hope that this program has a good shot at being a top 10 or 15 contender again.
Then I saw the LSU game which was their easiest win of the season. It was pathetic watching it. Portland State played us tougher than we played LSU. They were toying with us the entire game.
To most Doogs that was the game where they went from thinking Sark is next James to wait and see.
For the rest of us we knew he was a shit coach. So many examples in this thread which doesn't include 2010 at byu, 2010 vs Stanford, 2009 at ASU and at ND.
His loss to the fucking Cougs was his worse but looking at his history nobody was exactly surprised.