Steve is completetly fucked, at this point. The refusal to replace Ewers looks like he's decided to keep Ewers in the game and call passes he hasn't completed since he got back from the Bama injury. Everybody was predicting a run-heavy offense, and I think I heard Bijan express unhappiness and surprise about Sark changing the plan to pass, run or pass, pass, punt.
I went and looked up Steve's HC record. First two years is eerily similar to our first two years with him, so far.
First, he went 5-7. Unlike Texas, UW was nearly ecstatic since the previous HC was fired after 0-12. We weren't ecstatic at all with 2021's 5-7 record, but we "understood" new staff and all that.
Second year, he "improved" to 6-6, and then devolved into several consecutive 7-6 years. We may or may not get from 6-4 to 8-4 this year, but given the less-than-pathetic attempts at offense, I don't believe that any of would be surprised were we to go 0-2 against KU and Baylor and wind up with that 6-6 record.
The insistence of Ewers and no one else speaks to me of a person who has no real idea what to do, so he keeps doing the same thing... over and over and over... I'm not a recovering alcoholic, so I have only external experiences with alcoholics in particluar, but from what I have seen, Sark looks like he is in danger of falling off that wagon. Maybe he's just fully incompetent, so it seems as though he's drunk or drug-addled.
Bottom line is that Seven Win Steve is not who some - perhaps most - thought he was, and never will be.
Time's just about up for this season. What next?