I’ve tried to be optimistic with Sark, even though I definitely thought it was a WTF hire. I thought “well hell, we will at least have a badass offense and that’ll be entertaining, and if he gets recruiting right, he could be all right.” And I was ok kinda giving him a pass last year, because it was clear the roster wasn’t that talented, didn’t really have a QB who could execute his offense, and it was everyone’s first year in the systems.
But I was kinda looking to the second half of year 2 to see progress. And it’s difficult to see. The QB is regressing somehow. The second half meltdowns haven’t stopped. He doesn’t seem to have answers.
So yeah, first impression was probably correct - he’s almost certainly not the guy. Here’s the thing though - as long as recruiting doesn’t crater, I’d prefer to just keep him in place until you know for goddamn certain who the replacement will be. Seems like last time we thought maybe we could get Urban but miscalculated, and then we’re left holding our dicks and hired Sark. Don’t do that again. Just keep him here until you have a done deal (well, until you are extremely confident that you have your guy). No idea how realistic that is, acknowledging that there are probably way too many people involved in that replacement process to have coherent communication.