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This is the year of no excuses
Auburndawg
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My take on the Sark era so far:
Year one: good progress, but some disturbing coaching gaffes
Year two: another step forward. Blow outs were a cause for concern. Holiday Bowl win encouraging. Good recruiting class.
Year three: why are we still getting blown out? Why is the defense so gawdawful? But Price looks great, and another good recruiting class.
Year four: Wilcox, Sirmon, Tosh, awesome. Defense much better - good job Sark. Recruiting remains strong. But now the offense is a mess. Why are we running read option when Price can't run? But there were a ton of injuries and we aren't deep enough yet to sustain that. Doubts are growing, but not time to panic.
Now, Sark has the coaches he wants. He has four straight top 25 recruiting classes filling the two deeps. We are have one of the most experienced rosters in America. Six O-linemen who are in their 4th year! We have an experienced QB. We have the depth to sustain injuries.
If this team can't compete head to head with Stanford and Oregon and win at least 9 regular season games, it is 100% due to coaching. This year we find out if Sark can prepare a team to execute the fundamentals and avoid mistakes. This year we find out if he can get out of his own way when it comes to play calling. (Run the damn ball Mr. Creative Genius!).
I have never been more excited and scared at the same time for a Husky football season.
Year one: good progress, but some disturbing coaching gaffes
Year two: another step forward. Blow outs were a cause for concern. Holiday Bowl win encouraging. Good recruiting class.
Year three: why are we still getting blown out? Why is the defense so gawdawful? But Price looks great, and another good recruiting class.
Year four: Wilcox, Sirmon, Tosh, awesome. Defense much better - good job Sark. Recruiting remains strong. But now the offense is a mess. Why are we running read option when Price can't run? But there were a ton of injuries and we aren't deep enough yet to sustain that. Doubts are growing, but not time to panic.
Now, Sark has the coaches he wants. He has four straight top 25 recruiting classes filling the two deeps. We are have one of the most experienced rosters in America. Six O-linemen who are in their 4th year! We have an experienced QB. We have the depth to sustain injuries.
If this team can't compete head to head with Stanford and Oregon and win at least 9 regular season games, it is 100% due to coaching. This year we find out if Sark can prepare a team to execute the fundamentals and avoid mistakes. This year we find out if he can get out of his own way when it comes to play calling. (Run the damn ball Mr. Creative Genius!).
I have never been more excited and scared at the same time for a Husky football season.
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I have all the screenshots I need.
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Nice to see you here.
Unlike you, I have never been less excited although I am fearfull. At best, this sorry operation run by a frat boy in over his head is 8 - 4. The fear is Woody will give him a 5 year extension for this sorry performance. The talent may be there, but an undisciplined, soft, unmotivated, underdeveloped team, with sub par lines and a play caller that is among the worst in the country will not do well.
Four years is enough. Cream Puff has proven himself. He's a proven incompetent, below average. -
5 wins
6 wins and a bowl win
7 wins
Then last year happened. But we lost 5 starting Olinemen, 2 starting WRs, our starting TB, and our best DE. I still saw evidence of bad coaching, but I am willing to see what he gets done now. -
Well said Auburn! I'm with you on never being more excited and scared at the same time.....
For me, Sark needs nine wins regular-season, no blow out losses, AND a bowl win......10 wins total. I add the bowl win as a requirement because with 9 regular season wins, we will be in a bowl game and match up that we should also win. Sark has had two straight sub-par bowl performances so this year he needs to get it done in the post-season as well. -
The whole depth thing is b.s. to a point. Ty always had top 40 recruiting classes. A good coach plus a good strength coach could weed out the sissies and get everything on track within a couple of years. It's not like there was Big Sky talent and he had to rehaul everything. From 2011on, depth is a cop-out.
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Awfully warm for November
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How are the fightin' T Macs lookin this year?RaceBannon said:Awfully warm for November
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I'm now in prime duck recruiting turf, the IE
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"Treading water" is no longer acceptable. That was my impression of last season, before the last two debacles, after which it seemed the program was back underwater.
I was sorely disappointed with how last season ended, enough so that I didn't think I wanted to go to a game at the new Husky Stadium this season unless:
1. Sark is fired and replaced.
2. If Sark is retained, he hires a talented OC and turns over the offensive play calling to the OC.
3. A new starting QB. (posted last year on a different forum)
My wishes were obviously ignored, but I am excited to report I plan to be in attendance against BSU. Not because my expectations have changed, but because I am a passionate Husky with tentative hopes of better days ahead.
More than anything else, I want to see the entire team - coaches and players - ready to play, fight, and compete at their highest level at game time and for every play until the game is over. By this, we will discern whether the program has progressed beyond "treading water." If all the coaches and players bring the passion, intensity, determination, and intelligence that evoke the fondest memories of a rich football tradition at Washington, then the wins and titles will follow.
I don't want to see any more sloppy unpreparedness at game time and clueless expressions from the HC on the sidelines. Perhaps I expect too much, but we shall soon see. Since I have no ability to change things, I will give Sark the benefit of doubt, but if he hasn't risen above his former incompetence, he must be sent packing.
GO HUSKIES!
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I can accept the argument that Sark inherited a mess.
The 2005 and 2009 classes were non-existent. 2006 and 2007 were mediocre at best. And lets not forget that the kids who were in the program had been coached by Ty and company.
Sark took what he had and got it from awful to minor bowl status. Fair enough.
But now this program is 100% his, and his recruits are now JRs and SRs.
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10 wins minimum or Door. Ass. Out
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With no more of these 20+ point ass fuckings that have become par for the course.Dawgtona said:10 wins minimum or Door. Ass. Out
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Agree. It isn't just 9 or 10 wins I want to see. I am so sick of watching us get plungered I damn near don't care anymore. If we can blow a few teams out, win a few nail biters, and keep our losses from looking like the other team has a basketball score, I might not be so pissed all the time.PostGameOrangeSlices said:
With no more of these 20+ point ass fuckings that have become par for the course.Dawgtona said:10 wins minimum or Door. Ass. Out
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This really is the make or break year. I feel you, bruh.Auburndawg said:
Now, Sark has the coaches he wants. He has four straight top 25 recruiting classes filling the two deeps. We are have one of the most experienced rosters in America. Six O-linemen who are in their 4th year! We have an experienced QB. We have the depth to sustain injuries. -
I expect the 2013 annual followup excusing away another subpar season to Auburndawg's best effort yet.
Sark's record is already broken, yet people are hoping that he can just continue to mirror Chan Fucking Gailey's record at Georgia Tech.
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I wonder how many times AuburnDawg has made this post on doogman since the season ended?
In terms of excitement, this is the least excited I have been since 2008. Sark's not getting us over the hump. Do you really think everything will magically get better because we are "experienced" and we will beat a good team on the road? -
This should be amusing to see the evolution from week to week
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I say Aubbie can stay as long as he makes this his avatarMikeDamone said:This should be amusing to see the evolution from week to week
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This will be fun to bump when UW is 4-3 after having lost three straight.MikeDamone said:This should be amusing to see the evolution from week to week
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So when did you career negas decide Sark needed to be fired? Just curious.
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Alamo Bowel for me, but I'm more patient than most.Auburndawg said:So when did you career negas decide Sark needed to be fired? Just curious.
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He showed some terrible moments his first two years especially the three game losing streak where we lost every game by 30+.Auburndawg said:So when did you career negas decide Sark needed to be fired? Just curious.
Although far as firing I was done with him after UW lost the Oregon State game in 2011. How he mishandled the QB situation and then forgot about Polk after the first quarter. Prior to that loss most of his losses were somewhat excusable given how well the other team was.
That loss wasn't. That was a bad Oregon State team that UW should have killed. He repeated that same loss the following year against WSU yet fans keep wondering if he'll turn it around and there is no way. -
Holy shit.......... Have you been snooping in my diary again? Plagiarism!!!!!He_Needs_More_Time said:
He showed some terrible moments his first two years especially the three game losing streak where we lost every game by 30+.Auburndawg said:So when did you career negas decide Sark needed to be fired? Just curious.
Although far as firing I was done with him after UW lost the Oregon State game in 2011. How he mishandled the QB situation and then forgot about Polk after the first quarter. Prior to that loss most of his losses were somewhat excusable given how well the other team was.
That loss wasn't. That was a bad Oregon State team that UW should have killed. He repeated that same loss the following year against WSU yet fans keep wondering if he'll turn it around and there is no way.
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The combo of Oregon State and the Alamo Bowl in 2011. The Oregon State game really pissed me off because by playing Montana, he showed he thought we would easily win. When Montana started fucking up, he put in Price to try and win the game. It's not a NFL preseason game. If Price was healthy enough, which he was, he should have played. At the very least, put him in at halftime. Don't wait until we are down 14 with 8 minutes to go.Auburndawg said:So when did you career negas decide Sark needed to be fired? Just curious.
The doog in him gave him one more chance last year. The LSU game sealed it. He can talk about championships all he wants. It's not going to happen, and his teams are nowhere close to that level. We are the 3rd of 4th best team in the North and a middle of the Pac team. I don't think that will ever change with him in charge.
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Stanford 2010Auburndawg said:So when did you career negas decide Sark needed to be fired? Just curious.
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That was the first real warning sign, but he redeemed himself with the 4 game winning streak to end the year.Dawgtona said:
Stanford 2010Auburndawg said:So when did you career negas decide Sark needed to be fired? Just curious.
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There were warning signs in October 2009RoadDawg55 said:
That was the first real warning sign, but he redeemed himself with the 4 game winning streak to end the year.Dawgtona said:
Stanford 2010Auburndawg said:So when did you career negas decide Sark needed to be fired? Just curious.
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That OSU loss in 2011 probably cost Holt his job. It should have cost Sark his too. I was seated in the first row behind the south end of the Husky bench. It was evident before the kickoff that the team was not prepared to win, let alone compete. Vacant expressions on players' faces, especially Polk, indicated lack of confidence in the coaching staff. Stars on that team were Ty's recruits. I get that. But, a high caliber HC, which Sark is not (and may never be), takes the available talent and improves winning opportunities.He_Needs_More_Time said:
He showed some terrible moments his first two years especially the three game losing streak where we lost every game by 30+.Auburndawg said:So when did you career negas decide Sark needed to be fired? Just curious.
Although far as firing I was done with him after UW lost the Oregon State game in 2011. How he mishandled the QB situation and then forgot about Polk after the first quarter. Prior to that loss most of his losses were somewhat excusable given how well the other team was.
That loss wasn't. That was a bad Oregon State team that UW should have killed. He repeated that same loss the following year against WSU yet fans keep wondering if he'll turn it around and there is no way.
Riley at OSU is a good coach when it comes to developing the talent he has, but not so good at game time decision making.
WA should be able to draw from the best coaching talent available and already under contract. If Woodward was able to pull off the new Husky Stadium, then he should be able to hire a competent HC.
Sark must win 9 regular season gains, or be fired immediately.
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