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Washington Football: Is Steve Sarkisian Circling the Wagons?
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Washington Football: Is Steve Sarkisian Circling the Wagons?
In a recent interview with SiriusXM College Sports Nation, UW coach Steve Sarkisian said,
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He laid out a set of excuses...."not my fault' laced with a bit of bravado, "competing for the conference championship." If he wins 8 regular season games, we'll erect a statue to him. As long as he goes 7 - 5 he'll be around for several years.
As oft mentioned, "Husky Football IS Dead."
BOISE STATE - L
at Illinois
IDAHO STATE
CALIFORNIA
Stanford - L
OREGON - L
Oregon State - L
UCLA - L
ARIZONA
Arizona State
COLORADO
WASHINGTON STATE
We might win one of the five games marked as a loss. We'll lose a game to some high school team like WSU so there's five loses in all likely hood. If anything goes wrong, we're 6 - 6 or worse. Anybody on this schedule can beat us other than Idaho St and perhaps Colorado and Illinois.
At this stage, I'm hoping for less than 6 wins.....it's the only way we eradicate this cancer.
It's bitter medicine.
My problem is I have no confidence the next hire will be anything other than Lather, Rinse, repeat.
Now he is realizing that he should have milked the 0-12 excuse a lot longer. It's a winning argument to the uneducated masses.
Then look at where unemployment was when BHO took over, the debt, deficit, and credit markets. Banks weren't lending (those that were surviving), the economy was bleeding jobs, and foreclosure rates were at an all-time. Oh yah, and we were mired in 2 very expensive wars (1 of which was unnecessary).
In stark contrast, Sark inherited a bunch of talented players that simply underachieved under his predecessor. All he had to do was instill some enthusiasm (i.e., "fun") and the rest took care of itself.
The President and a football coach are not even comparable. A President does not have "complete control of the world," meaning that he/she cannot force banks to restructure home loans, and he cannot force companies to hire, and he cannot not force consumers to increase their confidence. Obama only had 2 years with a Democratic House, so he did not have the power to implement his policies.
But Sark was the dictator - he got to do whatever he wanted (call plays, recruit players, etc etc etc).
Sark inherited a good situation. Obama did not.
I heard the wars were not only expensive and the reason for the high debt, but they were ILLEGAL. Staff? True?
This season will be a microcosm of 2011. We'll start out 4-0 and be ranked like 15th, then lose 3 in a row to Stanford, Oregon and ASU and the season will basically be over. We'll finish 8-5 and theres no way Sark will get fired for that. Worst case scenario fellas, 8 wins. 7 and its 50-50 he gets fired. 9 wins means expectations are for 10 and north title in 2014.