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Will he be Pool Boy or Scott Woodward?
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This offseason is a critical offseason for Pool Boy. He has a chance to make the bold firing(it's only bold because Seattle is soft) this offseason of Sark something his buddy Mark Emmert refused to do with Ty after year three.
If Pool Boy fires Sark this offseason and makes a good coaching hire then speaking for myself I'll refer to him as Woodward.
However, if he retains Sark(most likely) he'll forever be known as Pool Boy to all of us.
Here is the problem for Pool Boy though. If he brings back Sark and he fails he basically cemented his legacy as an A.D. He will be fired shortly after as well.
If he fires Sark and hires a good coach he then buys himself a few extra years just like Sark did when he fired Holt.
Anyways this will be a key offseason for Pool Boy. He can finally prove us wrong. Then again betting against UW making the right decision has been the easiest bet the past decade. I'm guessing Sark will be brought back for "one last chance" then 2014 will be yet another year we are wasting away.
If Pool Boy fires Sark this offseason and makes a good coaching hire then speaking for myself I'll refer to him as Woodward.
However, if he retains Sark(most likely) he'll forever be known as Pool Boy to all of us.
Here is the problem for Pool Boy though. If he brings back Sark and he fails he basically cemented his legacy as an A.D. He will be fired shortly after as well.
If he fires Sark and hires a good coach he then buys himself a few extra years just like Sark did when he fired Holt.
Anyways this will be a key offseason for Pool Boy. He can finally prove us wrong. Then again betting against UW making the right decision has been the easiest bet the past decade. I'm guessing Sark will be brought back for "one last chance" then 2014 will be yet another year we are wasting away.
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Like I said before Hedges was a bad A.D. but I would take her over Pool Boy until proven otherwise. She very easily could have stuck with Lambo but she went out and hired a Rose Bowl winning coach.
We'll see what Pool Boy does this offseason but I'm guessing it's going to be a "this is it for Sark. This is his last chance" type of deal which is fucking stupid.
With our home schedule if you bring back Sark next year expect some empty seats in year two of this great new stadium.
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This is the same dumbfuck that was working for Emmert and around Turner raising money for the school and athletic department when they decided to keep Ty. And my bet is that he was one of the ones saying you can't fire him because it might upset the donors.
Then he blows Emmert enough to be given the AD job, and his first action is to talk about experience and D and then go hire an unproven OC to be his (and yes, "HIS") coach. He owns Sark, and the only way he fires him is if Sark gets the TFS of the world to turn on him (i.e. a couple of 3 to 4 win seasons in a row) or if somebody in the University starts putting pressure on Pool Boy himself, which isn't going to happen with the money the football program takes in (who cares about attendance with the TV $$$...there are 40K doogs that will pay to watch Ty-ball...we have an air attack that puts up 50 points on Division 2 schools which will attract another 10K). And at that point they will fire Pool Boy and Sark in one swoop (i.e. within 6 months of each other...with Pool Boy going first, and the new AD bringing a new guy in).
Losing 3 in a row means we own Sark for years...nobody is going to hire him away from us and nobody at this limp wristed University is going to do anything about it. The only hope anyone of us had was that someone dumb enough would hire Sark away, or that Sark would be at least smart enough to learn on the job, and both have shown to be less likely than winning the lottery.
Accept 7-5 and own it...it isn't going to change for years. And hey, we may get lucky an odd year or two and win 8 like this, our projected "Rose Bowl" year...
In fact he appeared pretty pissed off that he was brought back. He also said having him coach out the season was a huge mistake.
Again not a Pool Boy fan but I'm not going to pin bringing Ty back for year four on him.
I think if Pool Boy brings Sark back for 2014 he's putting himself in danger of losing his job. While if he fires Sark after this year he will buy himself some time with the new head coach like Sark bought himself an extra year by having a whole new defensive coaching staff.
Look I think at 7-5 Sark is coming back and is officially on the hot seat for 2014. Now if he's 6-6 which would include a season ending 3 game losing streak and a second straight loss to the Cougs I don't see how he survives that.
Woodward, while a total fuckwad, has several Olympic Sports performing quite well, and just got a stadium built (in the eyes of limp wristed boosters who just want to go to games to be seen). I think UC loves him, because he doesn't sabre rattle (politician), graduation rates are high, the AD is making money, girls (Title IX) volleyball KICKS ASS, etc.
Which brings us to HHB Iron Law #69: It does not matter if you fire your shitty Coach when the one doing the hiring is a clumsy fucking re-re who should be cleaning pools for a living.
HTH
That loss at ASU really felt like a nail in the coffin. Only way out for Sark now is to run the table and that ain't happening. The team looks dejected. Multiple losses are possible, some potentially ugly. At this point the discussion should be about Woody more so than about Sark. What is Woody doing now to position himself to make a run at coaching candidates with the ability to elevate the program? If he waits until the 11th hour, he's in big trouble, and I think he knows this. While he fucked up the hire, he did start the search early last time around. Even if he's holding onto a glimmer of hope that Sarktardo disappears for the rest of the season, he needs to be working this through back channels, at least laying the ground work. The job is a damn good one, he should have little trouble attracting strong candidates.
We'll see what happens, but I've contended all along that this is a make or break season for Sark, seven wins and he's gone. He's now on target for another disappointing season. That's not going to cut it.
It is easy to look back and say 'nawww...I didn't want him back, and I shouldn't have let him stay' after the fact and all the damage is done. Reality though says he was the one raising money when Ty4 came around, and the biggest reason everyone said we had to keep him for season 4 was because of state funding and donations. Does it make sense that the guy in charge of that would really be saying fire him when that was the quiet reason given by all to keep him? And the simple public fact is that Pool Boy had the chance to punt him after going 0-7, and instead POOL BOY himself decided to let him coach out the season. Does it make sense that they guy that wanted him out the year before decides to let him coach out the season? Simple facts.
Sark is not in trouble unless he only wins 1 more game. Sark can go 5-7 next year and be safe...they will find an excuse (new QB, injuries on the OL...take your pick). Furthermore, thinking this pool boy idiot that helped get us to this point can suddenly do a 180 and hire the right coach after 5+ years of shitty management decisions is just comical.
This is modern Husky football, and anyone denying this fact is just hoping beyond reality (i.e. dooging it up).
Lather, rinse, repeat.
If Pool Boy fires Sark now if he goes 6-6 he is buying himself more time.
I think Sark should be fired at 8-4 or worse but he won't. I do think 6-6 meaning we'd have lost to WSU at home will get Sark fired.
- are players staying out of trouble?
- are players graduating?
- is the coach more important/powerful than the president?
- is the program bringing in enough money to fund the athletic department?
- are the big-time boosters happy?
If the answers are yes, yes, no, yes, yes, then upper campus is happy. If upper campus is happy Pool Boy. If Pool Boy is happy then Sark is still our fucking coach.
I don't know about if players are graduating.
That is a no.
That will always be a yes, however the stadium isn't paying for itself. At 6-6 if Sark is brought back you'll have a huge drop off in tickets which they can't afford right now.
I"m sure guys like Bleenor are happy but I suspect many big-time boosters aren't happy.
So it's not a simple yes,yes,no,yes,yes answer.
Even the biggest Doogs out there will have their pitchforks for Sark if he loses at home to WSU.
Now if he beats WSU to go 7-5 I think he survives and is on the "hot seat" next year even though he should have been fired.
I think they're graduating at an acceptable rate but yeah, I don't know for sure.
I think the majority of big-time boosters like asshat Ron Crockett are happy.
Poolgs? Poogs? Poolies? I'm not creative enough to come up with it. More power to them for their blind optimism...I guess I'm just too big of a cynic to have faith in any of these incompetent morons in charge.