I was watching an interview with Rod Babers a while back and he made some salient points about Sark.
When you look at last season, in general the game plans and installations heading into games were top notch for most of the year (outside of the Arkansas debacle). Babers was mentioning how Sark walked into the stadium for Texas/OU pimped out in his custom outfit. He was cocky. And he had reason to be, he installed a great game plan for that OU game and he fucking knew it. But Sark's biggest issue was not being able to make in-game adjustments
Look at our Big 12 games last year:
TTU - Total offensive domination from the start, game was relatively stress free.
at TCU - Up 6 at halftime, fed Bijan all day, held on to win in second half.
vs. OU - 28-7 first quarter lead, up 18 at half time. Meltdown in 2nd half.
vs. Okie State - Up 17-3 in 2nd quarter, about to score again, Casey throws a pick 6. Total meltdown in 4th quarter.
at Baylor - Up 21-10 in 2nd quarter, total meltdown after that.
at Iowa State - Up 7-3 at halftime, outscored 27-0 in the second half
Kansas (Bijan gets hurt) and WV games were shitshows and the team was in a free fall at that point.
Clearly it's very fucking scary that Sark has issues making adjustments. We knew our defense was shit very early on, and the goal should have been to score 60 every game. But the offense typically sputtered in the second half. How many times did we see like 3-4 three and outs in a row after being able to move the ball easily in the 1st half? That should be fixable if properly identified. Does Sark have too many responsibilities in-game that eventually affect his play calling? I don't get the sense he's too arrogant to change some things around, but it definitely needs to happen.