Lots of good posts in this thread. We are basically Tennessee but with more money and bigger ego. Mack completely left this program in shambles and deficient in talent. We hired a "football coach" instead of a CEO with Strong. Strong is good at talent evaluation, and his strengths stop right there. He didn't bother to recruit until December and he cared more about being a good role model and father figure to his players than a football coach. That was a terrible football hire, he was probably 5th on our list of candidates that would even show up to an interview.
Strong was probably fired too late and those 3 years of fighting for bowl eligibility took this program from mediocre under Brown to the gutter. I don't care what anyone says, the 3 years Strong was here was the worst football I've seen at Texas. We were getting blown out game after game in the first quarter and the team would give up. We had 5 scholarship OL one spring. We didn't even have enough OL to field a 2nd team in our spring game.
Then we go on to Tom Herman. Herman, believe it or not, isn't a bad coach. He took a dumpster fire from Strong and made us at least competitive. He recruited well. His downfall was being a fucking douche and thinking he was the smartest guy in the room. He also had no idea how to develop players once they got here. As someone pointed out, look at those recruiting rankings and look at the elite talent that never was developed. There is a reason we have the lowest blue chip development of all power 5 programs. This program is where good players destroy their careers.
Now we have Sark. A guy that has never proven to be an "elite head coach". He's one of the best offensive minds, but he has clear issues as a head coach. He's taken over a program that is fundamentally flawed, entitled, and lacks elite talent and depth. He knows this. We need an infusion of talent on this roster. We will not get this talent unless we show wins or we start paying them like UGA, aggy, Oregon, LSU, Bama does. Until we get them, we are at the talent level of TCU, okie state, Baylor. Firing Sark and company isn't going to fix this. This athletic department needs to look at themselves in the mirror and figure out if they only care about dollars or if they want a winning program. If they want a winning program and want to be competitive in the SEC and beat our rival, then we need to fundamentally change how this program is run from recruiting, to coaching, and to how entitled and coddled these players are. The fact that Jerrin Thompson is still playing meaningful downs after straight up giving up on tackles twice against ou that both resulted in long TD runs should tell you what we are... soft team with no depth.