The same tired lines over and over again.

Passion

Collapse at the end of last year: "Nobody is more frustrated than me."

Beginning of this year: "7-6 isn't good enough."

Approaching the end of this year: "Nobody is more frustrated than me."

DerekJohnson

The Seattle Times front page today literally says "SARK FEELS YOUR PAIN"

Swaye

Passion said:

Collapse at the end of last year: "Nobody is more frustrated than me."

Beginning of this year: "7-6 isn't good enough."

Approaching the end of this year: "Nobody is more frustrated than me."

It fucking Groundhog Day for mediocrity at Montlake.

tracker

DerekJohnson said:

The Seattle Times front page today literally says "SARK FEELS YOUR PAIN"

For $2.6M a year I'd be willing to feel your pain, too.

CokeGreaterThanPepsi

It's a classic rhetorical device you see in politics all the fucking time, you acknowledge what others around you are saying about you and say that you "feel their pain" or "believe me, no one is hurting more than I am". While this often works on people that are on the fence or on his side, it usually does not work on people that have already lost confidence in the person.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

Take a look at the "we're really close" statements Sark made. He's trying to stretch things out until next year when he has a schedule filled with dreck. He knows if he can split these 2 games, he's at 7-5 and facing a shitty bowel opponent with the chance to make it to 8 wins.

From there, he and his supporters can say, look we've improved!!! He gets 2014 and gets to 9 wins in 13 attempts before the bowel game and can again say, look we've improved some more!!

The only hope for those who want him gone is that he doesn't go 2-1 giving hope to those who won't look at the deeper issues. Those folks will then say, well, 8 wins is better than 7 and he did take over an 0-12 team, give him another year.

Give the guy credit, he's a great politician.

RaccoonHarry

CokeGreaterThanPepsi said:

It's a classic rhetorical device you see in politics all the fucking time, you acknowledge what others around you are saying about you and say that you "feel their pain" or "believe me, no one is hurting more than I am". While this often works on people that are on the fence or on his side, it usually does not work on people that have already lost confidence in the person.

Exactly. Clinton perfected that strategy and the soccer moms still love the prick. Sark has his finger on the pulse of liberal Seattle and the fire Sark crowd is just sound and fury, signifying nothing. Or so I fear, Bill Shakespeare and me.

CuntWaffle

Sark puts on a good poker face like this is all frustrating but it really isn't as he knows his job is safe with these type of games. Being "in the game" with UCLA and Stanford on the road and being down 1 score to Oregon in the 4th he has had a successful season in the eyes of the almighty incremental progress gem we now seek.

Now he gets to hold down the fort in Seattle and able to fuck gonorrhea infested meat lockers at Joeys on the side.

TommySQC

CokeGreaterThanPepsi said:

It's a classic rhetorical device you see in politics all the fucking time, you acknowledge what others around you are saying about you and say that you "feel their pain" or "believe me, no one is hurting more than I am". While this often works on people that are on the fence or on his side, it usually does not work on people that have already lost confidence in the person.

I feel supercanucks pain...I really do.

Tailgater

I thought when I saw "tired lines", you were going to discuss how worn out the Husky offensive and defensive lines appear to be through ten games,.... which could be disputable since neither have really done much this season so far. But then there's not an abundance of effective depth for either line, so I suppose it's six of one, half a dozen of the other.

As for his hyperbole propaganda and eventual excuses when publicized preseason goals aren't met, Sark talks way to much to the media and uses far more superlatives in doing so than his program has shown thus far it can live up to. I don't mind Sark's bullshit so much even though I preferred the pragmatism and stoic nature of Don Jame's P.R., which was nearly perfect to suit my tastes for coach talk.

The Seattle/Puget Sound mainstream (non-Internet) media hated DJ because he was always on a higher intellectual level than they were which I believe was perceived as arrogance and disrespect. Now that the local media has for the past five seasons had so much more access to a dumbed-down UW head football coach who is almost an exact opposite to the Dawgfather, my only interest in Sark's P.R. is how long the media will continue putting up with his motor-mouth bullshit. Perhaps these two final games against beatable NW rivals will be Sark's final bullshit act if he doesn't win out. We know how much more sensitive the UW can be to bad press than they are to the wishes, needs or preferences of ticket-buying fans and boosters.

Passion

RaccoonHarry said:

CokeGreaterThanPepsi said:

It's a classic rhetorical device you see in politics all the fucking time, you acknowledge what others around you are saying about you and say that you "feel their pain" or "believe me, no one is hurting more than I am". While this often works on people that are on the fence or on his side, it usually does not work on people that have already lost confidence in the person.

Exactly. Clinton perfected that strategy and the soccer moms still love the prick. Sark has his finger on the pulse of liberal Seattle and the fire Sark crowd is just sound and fury, signifying nothing. Or so I fear, Bill Shakespeare and me.

Dude, Clinton oversaw the greatest peacetime economic expansion in U.S. history. He is incredibly popular because he can point to tangible results.

Sark has no results.

Next time pick an example that makes your point.