I do think he sucks and I hope I am wrong and will relish eating crow. Usually when I have a feeling like this about a Texas coach it is proven true.
We had dipshits defending Charlie Strong his last year. Same with Shaka. When it was glaringly obvious both were absolute failures. He is not quite to that level yet, admittedly. But his track record overall and at Texas means any prediction of success is basically a blind leap of faith.
He is one hell of a coordinator. Elite. And PK has a track record of being elite as a DC. So success is not impossible like it was glaringly obvious to anyone with an IQ over room temperature a couple seasons in under Strong and Shaka.
I mean, Herman is a better coach. Both have a sufficient track record to make a fair comparison. I still wanted him gone.
I just never in my wildest dreams imagine we would hire Sarkisian. It was galactically fucking stupid. I would have kept Herman another year before hiring that spare if that was the best I could do.
I am not praising him. I think he needed to go. Sark is worse. I am not hopeful given his track record here and last year's disaster that he will ever even come close to what Tom Herman did (which was below par).
I don't see it.
Tom Herman is 54-22 as a head coach. He has a top 10 finish at UH and another top 10 finish at Texas. We won NY6 bowl games at both UH and Texas, the Peach and Sugar Bowls, respectively. In his six years of coaching, he finished in the top 25 4 times in his 6 years as a head coach.
Sarkisian is 51-42 as a head coach. He's finished ranked twice in his 9 years as a head coach. His best ranking was #21 at USC. HIs signature bowl win was the Holiday Bowl when USC beat unranked Nebraska 45 to 42.
Light years my ass.
There is a strong argument that Ricky is the greatest college running back of all time.
Bijan is really, really good. I would love to be wrong about this year and we pull out 9 or more wins. I just cannot believe in a coach who lost six fucking games in a row. Or who blew the lead we had against OU.
I would be thrilled to be wrong about Sark.
My favorite was against at the end of the half one year against Okie State. Less than 30 seconds left. We have two timeouts. It is third down and we are in field goal range. Dumb fuck takes a delay of game penalty and knocks our kicker out of his comfortable range. We miss it.
Now, now, now. Let's be fair. His roster management was almost as dumb. Like not going after a QB transfer and rolling with a starting QB whose name he did not even know. Just how dumb was that son of a bitch?
I would rank them Herman, Sark, and Strong.
Strong was in a special class of regardness that it least made it entertaining. Watching that clueless bumblefuck try and coach at least was good for some laughs.
Herman needed to go. But we downgraded with Sarkisian. At least that is my view until proven otherwise.
Least excited I have been for a season since the Strong era. Just marking time until we hire a competent head coach. Still cannot believe we hired this spare.
I was in Colorado most of the summer, but my clocks weren't blinking when we got back, so I guess things worked okay while we were gone.
Overall, the Texas grid works well and is very reliable notwithstanding Winter Storm Uri, which was remarkable not only in how cold it was but how cold it was over such a large area of the state. And we pay about 25 percent less per kwh than the national average.
Maybe we should go with the heavily regulated California model and pay more than double per kwh and have brownouts when it's 85 degrees.