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  1. There's bad potential in this situation. Everyone has cards to play. Per usual, us fans would only participate in this stuff in the form of having to watch frustrating losses and wasted seasons. The worst scenario would be the donors saying hire an OC or we pull our money and Sark saying fuck off go ahead because Im not going anywhere so we will just suck. Then the donors tell CDC to fix it and he bumblefucks the situation further. Meanwhile we get to just wait for the cycle to complete and hope the next guy pans out. Sure I'd love for Sark to reverse course and take the next step, but I feel like the best bet for us would be him jumping to the NFL and throwing this same level of NIL support behind another coach. He's a complete clownshow too but I would easily take my chances on Freshwater over Sark at this point.
  2. It would ease the frustration a little if Sark won the Duke's Mayo bowl so I could watch him get doused by a cooler of soybean crap mayo like he deserves.
  3. If we cover the spread against Arkansas and then outclass A&M like we did last year, we can still get in IF we have some help like OU losing to Missouri or Ole Miss losing to Miss St. Odds arent great but if we blast A&M that will stick in the committee members minds.
  4. At a minimum, the fact that he has had to address it publicly to the media means its all over his radar. Thats better than nothing. Coaches and ADs have very little control over this stuff these days. If Sark's donor base is fine writing checks and letting him continue under his current structure, he's good to go for trying to rebound next season. But once one guy walks away, the other guys money becomes less impactful and it can cause a run on the whole operation. Thats why this is so shitty, Sark squandered some well aligned support this season. Its not easy to "get the bb's in the box."
  5. We arent "the" villain like we were in the Big 12 but we absolutely are a villain for every team. They arent happy we are here. Arkansas absolutely hates us I can promise. This team is bad on defense but if we let the offense put up points early this game will get uncomfrotable. If Ant Hill is out its already kind of starting.
  6. You nailed it. Great post. Our most significant shortcomings have come on the o line. Sark was privately telling at least one major donor that Arch is ready to fly high out of the gate this season. Really talking him up. Not only was that not true, but Sark failed to mention that Arch was going to be running for his life and getting punished regularly. Along the lines of Sark missing on evaluations, I'm dying to know how the donors that ponied up big time are enjoying the Ryan Wingo experience. Sark pounded the table for that guy and apparently he was not cheap. He was telling these donors that Arch is a golden god and we needed Arch's big weapon to take the top off of the defense. He failed to mention that the guy has dicks for hands. Whoops. What are the NIL guys supposed to think about Sark at this point? Was he blowing smoke up their ass or was he so detached from his team due to off the field nonsense that he genuinely didnt know how bad his o line was? Either way, doesn't exactly keep the people happy that he absolutely needs to keep happy. Most people dont enjoy lighting millions on fire.
  7. Everyone's thinking seems to still be stuck in the pre NIL era. As you're well aware, what was built around Sark more than demonstrates we are at least a Top 5 destination. I think we have a great argument for best in the SEC. Plus, the playoff is going to expand.
  8. My wife and kids were out of town last weekend, Im still recovering from Saturday night. After the game I stared into the abyss of my raging fire pit and I think my contacts melted a little bit into my eyes because I slept in them and when I took them out the next morning one of them was extremely irritated. Optometrist told me I had a slight corneal ulcer and now Im having to wear my goofy backup glasses in client meetings and taking prescription eye drops. Fucking Sark.
  9. Would love to know the details behind this as well, its a big reason why I initally disregarded the rumors.
  10. Information and certainly misinformation flow faster and more frequently than ever in college football. A lot of it is stuff we have been seeing for a while like social media and the 24 hour news cycle, but one of the major changes recently is NIL has both brought in more agents to cfb and removed many of the gatekeeping duties of an athletic department. I know at least three of our donors text and hold calls directly with agents without CDC knowing a thing about it, and I'm sure theres many more I don't know. That was going on before NIL, but not nearly to the same extent. The negotiating moves lightining quick, especially in these portal situations, and the middle men have all but been removed. To be clear, I've seen this exact scenario play out: - Sark or another staffer contacts a donor and says hey we believe X player has indicated he would transfer here for the right price, we really need him for (insert reason) - Donor calls that players agent to get a ballpark and see if he and others are interested in paying that amount - Donor either foots the bill himself or quickly gathers a bid amount from his donor buddies - Donor enters negotiations with the agent and sends in a bid - Agent lets the donor know if they won or lost, and if won the paperwork gets drawn up My point in posting this is it should illustrate how often agents are on the phone with people not even officially affiliated with the universities. TONS of information gets distributed out this way, and yea a lot of it is just smokescreens or bs or planted rumors. It wouldn't be a stretch at all for a guy like Desmond Howard to think he has gotten ahold of some pretty juicy and legitimate information, because he could've talked to a million different people who heard the Sark NFL stuff second hand and tells him it came from an agent.
  11. This is my general understanding as well. There wasn't a lot of interest in the job after the way everything went down with Mack. He really is an epic piece of shit and I cant believe hes allowed to snoop around the program again. Fuck that guy. Powers advocated for Strong because he wanted a black coach. Dont know how much of a difference that made in actually hiring him but Ive heard donors say it. A Dallas group is who fumbled the situation with Saban and drove the Patterson hire at AD. The pendulum swung back to Houston and we ended up with Herman as a result. The story of him and his wife showing up to a cocktail reception in Houston right after the deal was done is hilarious. Herman bolted straight to the bar when he got there and ordered a vodka and ice in a pint glass. Eltife and Hartzell put a good bid together from multiple cities but missed out on Meyer. I heard a big part of the reason they landed on Sark is because they were determined to fix the QB situation that had plagued us for so long. Shouldnt be hard to figure out who will be making the next hire if we make one. NIL drives the bus now, as it should in my opinion. We will only go as far as our NIL support takes us, just like everyone else now. Love it or hate it, thats cfb today.
  12. Feels like LSU is negotiating against themselves by flying the family there to have a look.
  13. I'd be shocked if Sark even entertains the idea of taking the playsheet out of his hands. I think he'd rather be an OC in the NFL than a CEO HC in college.
  14. I wanna see what the injury report looks like and monitor the media noise around Sark before making a full prediction, but right now I'm leaning towards us taking care of business against Arkansas. We are a different team at home.
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