USC, 6 commits, all in the trenches

Besides the LSU game, I thought Sankey got decent blocking. It wasn't great, but our OL was above average at run blocking. The problem was Sark does not stick with it and stalls drives by trying to get cute. He frequently wastes plays. He would try to pass after we were successfully running the ball and the result was often a sack or incomplete pass that would basically kill the drive. He also wastes the first play after every turnover by trying to go deep every time. The other team knows it is coming, and it never works. It's so fucking frustrating.

A smart coach tries to make it easy for his players to succeed. In other words, you play to your strengths. Last year, we had an OL that couldn't pass block and an immobile QB, but we still threw the ball often, and ran read option. Sark is stubborn and runs what he wants to run, whether he has the personnel to do it or not.

You don't win football game by having a legit line. You win games by throwing a bunch of bubble screens to 4* recievers for a gain of 2.

Simple fact.

DerekJohnson said:

If we're going to start bashing 2-yard gains from bubble screens, I'm out

You can't just run the ball every time! You have to keep the defense guessing. Those 2 yard bubble screens loosen the defense up.

How come when Oregon or Arizona run bubble screens on us the guy is wide open and has blockers and it goes for 15 yards but when we run it, the WR already has a CB draped over him when he catches the ball and falls forward for 1 yard?

puppylove_sugarsteel said:

Even under sanctions Kitten gets it. I wonder what Sark would do with 15 free lunches. He'd prolly have 3WR's , 1 2-star DE, and 2 linebackers who wouldn't start at San Diego St. Kiffin recruits offensive linemen better under sanctions than Sark does with a full boat.

No worries, Micheal Kniep (a walk on) is going to start over Sark's entire 2011. on-line class. Then last years Big-3 is going to sit on the bench for 4 years, 2 of which will be under a new head coach. Way to go Sark, thanks for building up the most important position group on the team. uEven your new homicide offense wont work when NOBODY on the oline can get out and pull, run and block downfield. I'd hate to be Sankey. poor dude is going to have to shake and bake, spin, make people miss to reach 1000 yards like last year. Imagine if he had a Andrew Peterson or Benji Olson out in front of him on every play. screen passes to Sankey? (not in Sarks playbook)

I don't think I ever saw Sankey have a lead blocker @ the second level under Sark. If Sankey ran behind a good oline he'd be capable of the Doak Walker. That's how good he is .

0Please Sark go out and sign 5 good olinemen for our next head coach!

Sark will be starting his 5th season without a proven unit of interior offensive linemen of Pac-12 starting quality or caliber. The operative word on this kafuffle is proven which means that whomever starts from tackle to tackle will have to prove themselves immediately with dominating performances at home against Boise State and against Illinois on the road where Sark's offenses have hardly been dominating against anybody. And then they'll have to stay healthy against Idaho State and beyond for there is no proven OL depth in backup and when was the last Husky OL to make through a 12-game season without injury.

This is a daunting task for a collegiate football program to get this far into a rebuilding program with no proven results in either the offensive or defensive lines. I had a thought during Spring practices that Sark and staff had gone to the no-huddle hurry-up offense in scrimmages not so much to introduce a new offense for the purpose of compensating for the lack of a proven offensive line, but perhaps to prepare an equally unproven defensive front to stop such offenses run by opponents. Thus, we might steal one or two more upset wins with tough defense like the Dawgs did last season over Stanford and OSU.

Wouldn't it be nice to start winning games again with defense and not have to worry so much about Sark's playground youth club offense?

CheersWestDawg said:

Houhusky said:

The running game also suffered due to extremely predictable play calling... I tracked play calling for a few games last year and shortly discovered a disturbing trend. If Sark ran a "failed" pass play (incomplete, sack, or less than 2 yards) on first down Sark's next call was a running play over 80% of the time, this trend continued at a similar rate for the rest of the year. If I can figure that out, any fucktard defensive coach not named AWESOME Holt can. The offensive line blocking is pretty inconsistent and seems to fluctuate wildly from game to game. Sankey is pretty good, RB development has been surprisingly good during the Sark era. However I think that the RB coach has moved on?

I noticed this his first few games and it has driven me nuts for the last 3 years.

If Sark calls a pass on 1st and 10, and if its incomplete or like you said a "failed" pass play he calls a run play almost every time. It's annoying that a drunk fuck like me can notice that shit. How easy do you think it is for an opposing college football coach that gets paid millions of dollars to see more complicated shit than that?

If you guys keep revealing this sort of info you won't be allowed to watch practices or games anymore.

CheersWestDawg said:

Houhusky said:

The running game also suffered due to extremely predictable play calling... I tracked play calling for a few games last year and shortly discovered a disturbing trend. If Sark ran a "failed" pass play (incomplete, sack, or less than 2 yards) on first down Sark's next call was a running play over 80% of the time, this trend continued at a similar rate for the rest of the year. If I can figure that out, any fucktard defensive coach not named AWESOME Holt can. The offensive line blocking is pretty inconsistent and seems to fluctuate wildly from game to game. Sankey is pretty good, RB development has been surprisingly good during the Sark era. However I think that the RB coach has moved on?

I noticed this his first few games and it has driven me nuts for the last 3 years.

If Sark calls a pass on 1st and 10, and if its incomplete or like you said a "failed" pass play he calls a run play almost every time. It's annoying that a drunk fuck like me can notice that shit. How easy do you think it is for an opposing college football coach that gets paid millions of dollars to see more complicated shit than that?

Same thing with the going deep after a turnover. 95% of the time, it is a wasted down. Sark did this every time last year. I mentioned it in the Apple Cup and everyone I was with noticed it as well.

Like you said, of some drunk fans can notice his trends, you think the opposing coaches who watch a shit load of film aren't going to see the trends? You would also think Sark and staff would self scout these things, notice what they are doing, and fix it.

Sark has become like any two-bit despot dictator who proclaims himself all-knowing, and demands "heads on a platter" to any who oppose his "iron" will.