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http://ndnation.com/boards/showpost.php?b=cartier;pid=362186;d=allI, as well as many other SC fans, bought into his BS and ignored everything the UW fans told us thinking that they had unrealistic expectations. We were excited before the season expecting this team to be well-coached and disciplined. Boy were we wrong. It takes a special kind of coach to lose a game like USC lost this Saturday and Sark was able to pull it off. The guy is all talk and no substance. He has absolutely no clue what to do. He's Paul Hackett with a much better personality and, at the very minimum, he's locked in until December of 2017. Enjoy!
Sounds like UW fans reactions to us warning them about Willingham. Thought it was just a bunch of mean ND racists that drove him out. They learned the hard way.
USCTrojanDave is beyond help."I remember reading an article in Sports Illustrated about McKay, basically about all those who said he didn't understand the game, wasn't keeping up with the evolution of the game, didn't know his X's and O's.The article was all about that 1972 team, the team many say was the best in college football history.A lot of coaches look pretty foolish while they get personnel and staff on a single page.Sometimes it takes more than a single season.And sometimes it takes seeing a specific offense or defense to see weakness truly exposed.While I agree that adaptation and adjustment and refinement are all needed, I also believethat the need for all those is as obvious to Sark and Wilcox as it is to us. And those thingswere also obvious to McKay (so obvious) and even to Carroll (who learned and adjustedquickest of all).Again, this can all work. As it has in the past. And if it doesn't under Sark, it will under someone else.But we've been here before. So we can handle it....The best talent. The best preparation. The best program. USC"
See I did do that type of investigation when he was hired. I checked to see what the major complaints were. I checked to see what the stats were beyond won loss. The road record. The record against top teams. Opinions on how he coached in tough games, in the tight games, in conference games and in road games. That he has shown a consistent ability to turtle, to tighten up, to coach scared in close games, is not surprising at all to me. Why? Because I already knew this was his personality based on the Washington media and fan's opinions on what they saw over 5 years. Coaching personality doesn't change even for a coach that changes his philosophy almost hourly.
I'm wondering if Hayes Pullard will make it onto C'mon Man. They probably won't do it since it amounts to booing the kids.
When I read some of the comments on that board they are nearly word for word as the comments made on Dawgman before Haden bailed us out. Groundhog Day.
Question to those posters in and around the USC campus I was given some information about the players not on board with Sark and the coaching staff, has anyone else heard this? The source advised me that Mutiny was the word. Anyone hearing this type of talk as well.