Ding ding ding. This is not a good thing and I can't really believe everyone is celebrating it. If it's true the way it went down, which I seriously doubt, that's a huge red flag. Either Sark doesn't have the confidence to stand behind his own decisions or doesn't have to power to be able to...or he is already making such bad decisions that he needs fans/BMDs/etc to step in and bail him out of them. Yikes either way.
Highly unlikely this happened. Those types of stories are good for clicks and message boards, but there is far too much mutual respect among coaches to have let this happen. You don't go from ready to hire your old buddy to letting letting things go down this way, unless said buddy did something to piss you off. This, plus the fact that Saban just instantly took Stoops back in his old job, plus the fact that Sark already had another guy pretty much in the bag...it all points to things not going down the way it has been reported.
I'll chose to believe that it was never a done deal. Stoops was a finalist but was never really hired (granted, fans and BMDs probably helped make sure of that), but the "reporters" jumped the gun and got it wrong. Much more likely scenario.