I go back and forth on Sark. Which I think is justified based on his performance. I think I can see a progression. I see an improvement in many players as the year progresses. We have a very young team and a thin team in a few places. The hope/goal is that we continue to recruit well, fill those holes with talented youngsters and/or solid portals and the young team gets another year of experience. I do think a good percentage of the second-half struggle is our offensive play-calling. It seems evident over and over that defensive coaches adjust to Sark's first half game plan and Sark struggles to counter-punch. Maybe that is because with a freshman QB with no audibles and maybe a thinner playbook as a result - that we don't have as thick a playbook as others. I have no clue why it's happening over and over.
Now in theory more depth and at the right positions (like the secondary) makes it seem likely that as the team tires, it can get fresh legs on the field and can do better. Further, I have faith in Sark to develop Ewers. That may open up his ability to read the game and give him more authority to make audibles to get out of some of those second half calls. Regardless, my gut feeling is that Sark does fine this year (we lose at least another game before the bowl) and next year does OK again (8-9 wins), but just can't get over the hump. I want to be wrong on that though and as we've seen with Mack = sometimes elite talent can overcome good (but not great) coaching.
Fingers crossed the NIL machine rolls on and we can out-talent teams enough or that I am wrong and Sark finally gets it right here.