If I compliment Sark for hiring Wilcox, am I a Doog?

Auburndawg said:

Because what Wilcox has accomplished is pretty amazing.

In 2011, Holt's defense gave up 467 points, 36 per game.

Last year, 314 points, 24 per games.

When you look closer the picture is even more impressive.

In 14 games, Wilcox’s defense has held the opponent under 20 points 9 times. (USC scored a TD on a blocked punt). Let me say that again: under 20 points nine times.

In the Apple Cup and the Vegas Bowl, turnovers and kick returns gave our opponents short fields, or we may have been under 20 in those games.

Against Oregon, we gave them a TD after a fumbled punt, they got a pick 6, and we gave them a short field after a Price fumble, all in the first half. While the game was still competitive, the defense wasn’t the big problem.

Only twice has our D looked really bad, against LSU and Arizona.

Hiring Wilcox and the rest of that D staff is the best decision Sark has made so far.

Thus far hiring Wilcox was a good decision.

The bad part is that he kept Holt for 4 years...and still keeps cozzetto.

PostGameOrangeSlices said:

Youre late by about 14 years if you want to fix your doog repute.

Complimenting Sark is not how I would express gratitude if such is warranted for the hiring of Wilcox. With at most a few seasons as an assistant coach and OC on his resume', Sark obviously didn't know how to hire assistant coaches, especially on the defensive side of the ball, when he himself was hired as Husky head coach to replace the fraud. To not account for Sark's three wasted years on defense while giving him a Mulligan would be the doog thing to do.

As a DC, Holt was worse than any clown Brown just fired at Texas and it took Sark three seasons to live up to his responsibility and correct his severe and obvious defensive coaching problem. We don't know if Sark might have been constrained by pool boy from firing Holt (the highest paid college assistant when hired) because of the wasted money, but that does not yet release Sark from committing the Holt mistake in the first place.

We should be thankful for Sark correcting his error with the hiring of Wilcox. However, it is premature IMO to compliment a head coach for doing the minimum expected in arriving at the point on his head coaching learning curve where he could realize that defensive changes were imperative. Wilcox is prime head coaching material himself and may not be around long...... let's see how Sark does with his next DC hire.