Mad Son's Ramblings 9-25-13

Hardcore_Husky

Mad Son's Ramblings 9-25-13

It's time once again for Mad Son's Ramblings... with an interesting look at where Husky Football stands and what sort of end game could be in store if the right decisions are made by the UW athletic department.

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Homebrew_Dawg

LIFPO = TSIFO. We are fucked either way.

TierbsHsotBoobs

Kudos on the abundance.

Swaye

Sadly, your entire Wilcox treatise is faulty. Sark isn't getting fired unless we only win two more games, so there is almost zero chance of a Wilcox hiring happening anyway.

Other than that, GRAA.

BennyBeaver

Waaaaaaaay too fucking long, did not fucking read.

RaceBannon

FO,G

TierbsHsotBoobs

TheGlove said:

Waaaaaaaay too fucking long, did not fucking read.

That's the joke.

BennyBeaver

TierbsHsotBoobs said:

TheGlove said:

Waaaaaaaay too fucking long, did not fucking read.

That's the joke.

Hilarious.

Tailgater

The preponderance of penalties (holding and procedural) are coming from our infamous offensive line positions,... the interior five plus a certain tight end. These penalties aren't the result of overly aggressive play, new offensive schemes or mental errors so much as from poor fundamentals in blocking technique and getting the OL operating together as a unit at the snap of the ball. Such fundamentals are obviously not being taught and/or practiced sufficiently, not even close and that super obviously is a coaching problem which seem to be getting worse as the ISU scrimmage demonstrated.

Sark has shown us that he can fire and replace assistant coaches when it's needed. He also showed us that he's slow to do so by sticking with Holt and crew on defense for three long, frustrating seasons. Sark did make some changes in his offensive staff the past off-season and this may be contributing to improved play at the skill positions(QB, WR, and RB). But where the biggest problem has been for five seasons now in the OL, Sark has stayed pat with a veteran ex-vandal and Erickson associate whose primary experience is coaching RB's, not OL. This didn't work for Gilby who allowed his cronyism for Cozzetto fuck with our football program and it's obviously never going to work for Sark, either in recruiting or on the field.

This thing that Sark seems to have with his OL coach is most puzzling and can no longer be accountable to Sark's learning curve as a onetime rookie head coach. There must be a bromance there of some sort for unlike Holt, I doubt there could be a huge Cozzetto contract for Woodward to buyout. As any old ex-high school offensive linemen can attest, getting the snap-count executed correctly is the easy part and the real fun-in-difficulty begins instantly as the ball's snapped. For those who've ever gone down in a three or four point stance and listened for a QB to turn us lose, this whole business of penalties is beyond sickening. Obviously, we had a couple of really bad coaches before Sark was hired, but the ongoing problems in the offensive and defensive lines continues to bewilder and must be corrected, even if it takes a change in AD's.

Mad_Son

Swaye said:

Sadly, your entire Wilcox treatise is faulty. Sark isn't getting fired unless we only win two more games, so there is almost zero chance of a Wilcox hiring happening anyway.

Other than that, GRAA.

Fortunately it is not faulty and you missed the point. =P

This has nothing to do with what Woodward will do and everything to do with what Woodward should do. It is a well known fact that the good plans of action developed by the folks here are entirely uncorrelated with what happens in reality.

RaceBannon

And some of you need to learn the difference

MikeDamone

This article is written as if HH posters really have the ability to fire Sark next week. The correct debate is who is right, LIFPO people or TSIFO people? We have to LIFPO to know.

Mad_Son

MikeDamone said:

This article is written as if HH posters really have the ability to fire Sark next week. The correct debate is who is right, LIFPO people or TSIFO people? We have to LIFPO to know.

Homebrew nailed it. Both are right because we're fucked. The season is over but we have to let it play it out. LIPO pretty much means don't fire Sark and TSIO means fire Sark. At this point there is no one with standards who thinks there is an option of non-improvement coupled with retaining Sark. We need to fire Sark, but not yet. If someone thinks LIPO means that Sark needs more time to be evaluated, then they are flat out wrong because Sark has shown that things are the same as ever.

RaceBannon

The season is over doesn't mean fire Sark. It pre dates him. It came out of the series of exhibition seasons while we wait for a coach to get his own guys in or to not be young or all the other bullshit excuses for loser coaches. It culminated in 2013 being special back in 2011. Hi Kim! The present season never matters its always the year after next.

This season ended after the Apple Cup last year. There's nothing to play out. If we aren't winning the championship or expecting to we have the wrong coach. What is playing out? Nothing. The season is over. If you're waiting to see if we go 5-4 or 6-3 in league and think that's great because we played three cripples you might want to try www.dawgman.com

HTH

Mad_Son

RaceBannon said:

This season ended after the Apple Cup last year. There's nothing to play out. If we aren't winning the championship or expecting to we have the wrong coach. What is playing out? Nothing. The season is over.

That is exactly my point. If the season is over we have the wrong coach and if we have the wrong coach we need to fire him. Ergo TSIO = Fire Sark. In previous years they would not be equivalent statements but in the context of this season if there is a difference I am just not seeing it.

RaceBannon

The coach has needed to be fired since 2003. Sark won't get fired for 8 or 9 wins. The season is still over

Mad_Son

RaceBannon said:

The coach has needed to be fired since 2003. Sark won't get fired for 8 or 9 wins. The season is still over

This is getting back to the thing with Swaye - just because he won't be fired at some threshold doesn't mean he shouldn't be (and he should be because the season is over and at year 5 the season should never be over). This is all talking about what should be since our allowances don't carry enough clout to dictate what actually happens.