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27 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

 

This is what I can't grasp on whole. Sark, and other coaches, are supposed to be excellent offensive/defensive type minds, and know all this shit about football. Yet many fail to see the forest for the trees.

If Sark were truly an offensive genius, wouldn't he be able to comprehend shit that average Joe's and Jill's understand? The whole square peg round hole thing. You'd think he'd be bright enough to scheme to what his players can do, not what grand plan he had dreamed up. Fall camp should have shown him exactly what he was working with. He would have known more if they had a spring game or better spring camp.

So now we get his grand scheme shoved down our throats for consumption, whether we like it or not. We've seen with our own eyes what can happen if he does that (ou), but he keeps insisting on going with shit that's such over-complicated asswater that the players can't get a damn thing going and look like fucking clown shoes.

So what gives? It's not just Sark, others have had similar issues.

Is it ego? Meathead shit? What keeps a coach that you would think should see the obvious from actually seeing the obvious?

Looking back from the first of the year, it's like he's trying to get fired or some shit. It's plain reckless how the off-season has been handled, let alone in-season.

 


We have no real offensive identity.   For all he talks about complimentary football, he doesn’t seem to grasp it in the moment.

The OC should be in the booth where they can see the whole field.  Field level sucks for the big picture and perception 

He has some well designed plays, but so do a lot of other OCs.  Sark is buried in his playsheet and his play sequence often looks like 52 pickup.  Meanwhile, the opposing OC is sitting in a booth with 3-4 assistants looking for tendencies to exploit   
 

Pretty much every MNC winning HC in the past 25 years quit being a premier coordinator to become a HC, Jimbo being the only outlier.   Cognitive decline is real and while in 2013 he was able to pull off being HC/OC, just 10 years later he looked like a bumbling idiot and got fired.  
 

 

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7 minutes ago, Jimbob said:


We have no real offensive identity.   For all he talks about complimentary football, he doesn’t seem to grasp it in the moment.

The OC should be in the booth where they can see the whole field.  Field level sucks for the big picture and perception 

He has some well designed plays, but so do a lot of other OCs.  Sark is buried in his playsheet and his play sequence often looks like 52 pickup.  Meanwhile, the opposing OC is sitting in a booth with 3-4 assistants looking for tendencies to exploit   
 

Pretty much every MNC winning HC in the past 25 years quit being a premier coordinator to become a HC, Jimbo being the only outlier.   Cognitive decline is real and while in 2013 he was able to pull off being HC/OC, just 10 years later he looked like a bumbling idiot and got fired.  
 

 

this the the biggest thing on my list, either fix your side of the ball and show us you can learn from whatever mistakes happened this year, or next season is your last

we are struggling to score 20 points with multiple highly coveted QBs year over year. that is *not* ok, or the standard, its below expectations, and frankly disgraceful to consider it anything but a failure. 

EDIT - I don't know what all this other shit is about, but if everything is consensual and between adults IDGAF 

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6 minutes ago, Jimbob said:


We have no real offensive identity.   For all he talks about complimentary football, he doesn’t seem to grasp it in the moment.

 

 

 

Your problem is you and Sark have different ideas of what complimentary means.  His idea is all of us saying "bro that's a great play call" after running a double reverse jet sweep to Jordan Washington

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22 minutes ago, WinningIsHard said:

Owning? My goodness nobody forgets shit quite like surly haha. 

Mack Brown was KSU’s bitch after the national title

We got lucky they were off the schedule in 08 and 09 

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43 minutes ago, Not a cat said:

We finished 2013 unranked after blowouts to BYU, ole Miss, Oregon, okie state and baylor.  

This is why AI isn’t taking our jobs. Didn’t think that sounded right but I was a sophomore at Texas and was doing a lot of drugs so rolled with it. 
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Yeah no. We dropped out after Dec 8 and didn’t finish ranked. We dropped out early, got back in, dropped out, repeat 

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10 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Mack Brown was KSU’s bitch after the national title

We got lucky they were off the schedule in 08 and 09 

2008 team would’ve smashed them. 2009 defense probably suffocates them. KSU was lucky to dodge those teams.

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This is what I can't grasp on whole. Sark, and other coaches, are supposed to be excellent offensive/defensive type minds, and know all this shit about football. Yet many fail to see the forest for the trees.
If Sark were truly an offensive genius, wouldn't he be able to comprehend shit that average Joe's and Jill's understand? The whole square peg round hole thing. You'd think he'd be bright enough to scheme to what his players can do, not what grand plan he had dreamed up. Fall camp should have shown him exactly what he was working with. He would have known more if they had a spring game or better spring camp.
So now we get his grand scheme shoved down our throats for consumption, whether we like it or not. We've seen with our own eyes what can happen if he does that (ou), but he keeps insisting on going with shit that's such over-complicated asswater that the players can't get a damn thing going and look like fucking clown shoes.
So what gives? It's not just Sark, others have had similar issues.
Is it ego? Meathead shit? What keeps a coach that you would think should see the obvious from actually seeing the obvious?
Looking back from the first of the year, it's like he's trying to get fired or some shit. It's plain reckless how the off-season has been handled, let alone in-season.
 

The offense looked the best his first year, even with shit QB play. 2 NFL RBs including the best in the league now didn’t hurt either.
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1 hour ago, Hank_Hill said:

True. We fired him in a year we finished #10 lol. Different times.

Dude you’re misreading espn. It shows us as 10 for every season because we are/were 10 today. We went 8-4 Mack’s final season. We almost back doored a B12 title but Baylor destroyed us the 2nd half of the final regular season game. Then Oregon skull fucked us so we could finish 8-5…. 

I really doubt y’all’s memories if you think over half of Mack’s teams would’ve made a 12 team playoff. 

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The best goalie I ever played with or against would drink a 4loko before highschool games. So, checkmate.
 
 
 

I don’t think most of the players were sober in the 60s. PM Joe Namath
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1 hour ago, Nueces River Rat said:

01 and 02 might have as well.  They had two loses and they were not “bad” loses.  

So ‘01, ‘02, ‘04, ‘05, ‘08, ‘09? 

Mack Brown Texas Football was 16 years you drunks. 

6/16 = 37.5%, pretty far from easily half

But, if your point was that sark is meeting the low “standard” Mack set, where we all genuinely suffered for four years and the program was cratered when he left, well done. 

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Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Jimbob said:


We have no real offensive identity.   For all he talks about complimentary football, he doesn’t seem to grasp it in the moment.

The OC should be in the booth where they can see the whole field.  Field level sucks for the big picture and perception 

He has some well designed plays, but so do a lot of other OCs.  Sark is buried in his playsheet and his play sequence often looks like 52 pickup.  Meanwhile, the opposing OC is sitting in a booth with 3-4 assistants looking for tendencies to exploit   
 

Pretty much every MNC winning HC in the past 25 years quit being a premier coordinator to become a HC, Jimbo being the only outlier.   Cognitive decline is real and while in 2013 he was able to pull off being HC/OC, just 10 years later he looked like a bumbling idiot and got fired.  
 

 

I don’t remember but was Harsin an “in the booth” OC?

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Posted
2 hours ago, SarkAfterDark said:

If I was able to avoid it without trying I just don’t understand why it’s so difficult for some of you. Pardon me for my ignorance. 

This has to be a bit.  You accidentally missed the post.  That's not some achievement.  Some of us actually read through the whole page.  
 

Your imagined high ground is based on a happenstance.

Hilarious.

Keep fucking that chicken amigo.

Posted
1 hour ago, Jimbob said:


We have no real offensive identity.   For all he talks about complimentary football, he doesn’t seem to grasp it in the moment.

The OC should be in the booth where they can see the whole field.  Field level sucks for the big picture and perception 

He has some well designed plays, but so do a lot of other OCs.  Sark is buried in his playsheet and his play sequence often looks like 52 pickup.  Meanwhile, the opposing OC is sitting in a booth with 3-4 assistants looking for tendencies to exploit   
 

Pretty much every MNC winning HC in the past 25 years quit being a premier coordinator to become a HC, Jimbo being the only outlier.   Cognitive decline is real and while in 2013 he was able to pull off being HC/OC, just 10 years later he looked like a bumbling idiot and got fired.  
 

 

I agree with everything you say here. On top of that, the game is evolving every year. A dedicated OC spends the off-season grinding film of other teams to figure out what the latest and greatest tricks are to add to his bag.

Sark has a lot of other shit going on, and as a result his offense is completely stuck in amber, getting worse every year. (I honestly think 2021 was Sark's best year as OC at Texas, we just had crap personnel outside of RB).

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4 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Ketch's long post: mistakes were made, no raises for 2025 class, he's heard no indication that Sark won't be our coach for the indefinite future

So… Sark is fired?

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4 minutes ago, whereiend said:

I agree with everything you say here. On top of that, the game is evolving every year. A dedicated OC spends the off-season grinding film of other teams to figure out what the latest and greatest tricks are to add to his bag.

Sark has a lot of other shit going on, and as a result his offense is completely stuck in amber, getting worse every year. (I honestly think 2021 was Sark's best year as OC at Texas, we just had crap personnel outside of RB).

i like your thread on otf

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1 minute ago, whereiend said:

I agree with everything you say here. On top of that, the game is evolving every year. A dedicated OC spends the off-season grinding film of other teams to figure out what the latest and greatest tricks are to add to his bag.

Sark has a lot of other shit going on, and as a result his offense is completely stuck in amber, getting worse every year. (I honestly think 2021 was Sark's best year as OC at Texas, we just had crap personnel outside of RB).

His offense has been figured out and he can’t adapt. He needs to hire the following coaches, NBD lol  OC+OL+DB+ST 
 

2 minutes ago, lilMAC25 said:

So… Sark is fired?


Yeah refusing to give players raises because of team performance or coach issues seems like a death sentence 

Posted
2 hours ago, thunderlounge said:

 

This is what I can't grasp on whole. Sark, and other coaches, are supposed to be excellent offensive/defensive type minds, and know all this shit about football. Yet many fail to see the forest for the trees.

If Sark were truly an offensive genius, wouldn't he be able to comprehend shit that average Joe's and Jill's understand? The whole square peg round hole thing. You'd think he'd be bright enough to scheme to what his players can do, not what grand plan he had dreamed up. Fall camp should have shown him exactly what he was working with. He would have known more if they had a spring game or better spring camp.

So now we get his grand scheme shoved down our throats for consumption, whether we like it or not. We've seen with our own eyes what can happen if he does that (ou), but he keeps insisting on going with shit that's such over-complicated asswater that the players can't get a damn thing going and look like fucking clown shoes.

So what gives? It's not just Sark, others have had similar issues.

Is it ego? Meathead shit? What keeps a coach that you would think should see the obvious from actually seeing the obvious?

Looking back from the first of the year, it's like he's trying to get fired or some shit. It's plain reckless how the off-season has been handled, let alone in-season.

 

I think he is wearing too many hats and possibly has some personal life shit going on, but regardless lacks the time and energy to properly do his job as OC. Or properly do any of his jobs for that matter.  Needs to hire a goddamn OC and focus on being the head coach.

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4 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

i like your thread on otf

Thanks! it's mixed reviews over there 😂.

I think in general it's interesting that the coaches who complain about college coaching being too difficult are the ones struggling right now. See Lincoln Riley for another good example.

College coaches having to deal with more shit in this era means they must delegate more responsibility. Otherwise you are going to burn out and fall apart like Sark seems to be.

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Just now, whereiend said:

Thanks! it's mixed reviews over there 😂.

I think in general it's interesting that the coaches who complain about college coaching being too difficult are the ones struggling right now. See Lincoln Riley for another good example.

College coaches having to deal with more shit in this era means they must delegate more responsibility. Otherwise you are going to burn out and fall apart like Sark seems to be.

If you ain’t pumping sunshine over there you’re in for it! Too bad that board will never know what actually happened and Bobby would never allow them to speak on it in a post mortem 

Posted
1 hour ago, BigHornedLurker said:

this the the biggest thing on my list, either fix your side of the ball and show us you can learn from whatever mistakes happened this year, or next season is your last

we are struggling to score 20 points with multiple highly coveted QBs year over year. that is *not* ok, or the standard, its below expectations, and frankly disgraceful to consider it anything but a failure. 

EDIT - I don't know what all this other shit is about, but if everything is consensual and between adults IDGAF 

I would argue that there can absolutely be inappropriate "consensual" relationships.  "Inappropriate" to the level of being a fireable offense. 

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Posted (edited)
3 hours ago, thunderlounge said:

 

This is what I can't grasp on whole. Sark, and other coaches, are supposed to be excellent offensive/defensive type minds, and know all this shit about football. Yet many fail to see the forest for the trees.

If Sark were truly an offensive genius, wouldn't he be able to comprehend shit that average Joe's and Jill's understand? The whole square peg round hole thing. You'd think he'd be bright enough to scheme to what his players can do, not what grand plan he had dreamed up. Fall camp should have shown him exactly what he was working with. He would have known more if they had a spring game or better spring camp.

So now we get his grand scheme shoved down our throats for consumption, whether we like it or not. We've seen with our own eyes what can happen if he does that (ou), but he keeps insisting on going with shit that's such over-complicated asswater that the players can't get a damn thing going and look like fucking clown shoes.

So what gives? It's not just Sark, others have had similar issues.

Is it ego? Meathead shit? What keeps a coach that you would think should see the obvious from actually seeing the obvious?

Looking back from the first of the year, it's like he's trying to get fired or some shit. It's plain reckless how the off-season has been handled, let alone in-season.

 

It's a question as old as sports, and it's how I evaluate coaches in any sport: Does the coach try to force players into the coach's system or does the coach adapt to the strengths and weaknesses of the players on the team at a given time.

Adaptability to the talent on hand is far and away the most important attribute of a good coach imho. The ability to adapt gameplans, to find ways to highlight the players' strengths while diminishing their weaknesses is the surest sign of coaching prowess imho, and it is rare indeed.

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1 hour ago, Jimbob said:


We have no real offensive identity.   For all he talks about complimentary football, he doesn’t seem to grasp it in the moment.

The OC should be in the booth where they can see the whole field.  Field level sucks for the big picture and perception 

He has some well designed plays, but so do a lot of other OCs.  Sark is buried in his playsheet and his play sequence often looks like 52 pickup.  Meanwhile, the opposing OC is sitting in a booth with 3-4 assistants looking for tendencies to exploit   
 

Pretty much every MNC winning HC in the past 25 years quit being a premier coordinator to become a HC, Jimbo being the only outlier.   Cognitive decline is real and while in 2013 he was able to pull off being HC/OC, just 10 years later he looked like a bumbling idiot and got fired.  
 

 

The simple aspect of seeing the overall field is something so simple and easy to explain yet I never seen Sark defenders explain why he makes it work down on the ground. 

 

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On 11/17/2025 at 12:03 PM, chainsaw said:

Have we ever seen Sark deliver an ass-chewing?

Only to that one guy who held him back as we were about to run out of the tunnel in Dallas or somewhere. 

Posted
1 hour ago, Jimbob said:


We have no real offensive identity.   For all he talks about complimentary football, he doesn’t seem to grasp it in the moment.

The OC should be in the booth where they can see the whole field.  Field level sucks for the big picture and perception 

He has some well designed plays, but so do a lot of other OCs.  Sark is buried in his playsheet and his play sequence often looks like 52 pickup.  Meanwhile, the opposing OC is sitting in a booth with 3-4 assistants looking for tendencies to exploit   
 

Pretty much every MNC winning HC in the past 25 years quit being a premier coordinator to become a HC, Jimbo being the only outlier.   Cognitive decline is real and while in 2013 he was able to pull off being HC/OC, just 10 years later he looked like a bumbling idiot and got fired.  
 

 

His being in the booth or not is far less important than whether he's in the bottle or not.

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37 minutes ago, whereiend said:

I agree with everything you say here. On top of that, the game is evolving every year. A dedicated OC spends the off-season grinding film of other teams to figure out what the latest and greatest tricks are to add to his bag.

Sark has a lot of other shit going on, and as a result his offense is completely stuck in amber, getting worse every year. (I honestly think 2021 was Sark's best year as OC at Texas, we just had crap personnel outside of RB).

The prob here is he had built in defense for himself as to why his shit has sucked.   2023 and 2024 was Quinns lack of a deep ball.  2025 we got the deep ball but oh no the entire OL and RB room went to shit and nothing was done in advance to stop it. 

But don't worry folks he really realizes now what needs to be fixed. 

Not wanting him to be fired but he seems like a stubborn idiot over his head at this point. 

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1 hour ago, BigHornedLurker said:

EDIT - I don't know what all this other shit is about, but if everything is consensual and between adults IDGAF 

I don't care to the extent that it doesn't impact his job. Now, if two consenting adults do something that DOES impact the job? Where HR has to get involved, the work environment is messed up...

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5 minutes ago, BurgleBro said:

The simple aspect of seeing the overall field is something so simple and easy to explain yet I never seen Sark defenders explain why he makes it work down on the ground. 

 

Because there are HC play callers that do it. Just because Sark stinks don’t mean it’s a negative 

Posted
3 minutes ago, gaspar said:

Only to that one guy who held him back as we were about to run out of the tunnel in Dallas or somewhere. 

Ohhhh good one nobody mentioned that yesterday 

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2 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

His being in the booth or not is far less important than whether he's in the bottle or not.

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That's definitely worth repeating. But, rumors, amirite?

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2 hours ago, futureman said:

all of this is immense fun but the whole ‘extension after his alleged month-long bender’ kinda rains on the parade.  that is one of the few factual data points in this whole mess and it just doesn’t align with all the rest of this salacious gossip.  but I’m having a great time. 

Is it possible…work with me here…that our decision makers knew he was looking to leave after we lost to OSU in the playoffs? And is it possible that they re-upped with him bc they feared about losing him to the NFL…and they were cool with this month hiatus bc they would still keep him and hey it’s way early offseason and it’s just a needed vacation. And whatever he does there so what.
 

but then they had no idea he would come back from his absence and then you know fuck the entire offseason in the ass, Miss Junior day, jettison the spring game, jettison spring anything, elect publicly and he spoke to many publications of his admiration for the NFL many of which I have read about his decision to emulate their practices and go to these proven bullshit excuse for practices that don’t work in college. And our decision makers really didn’t think he would whiff on plugging the oline and hamper development of players and generally seem like he’s delusional and detached on the sideline and in pressers. Maybe they thought he’d be Sark mostly of 2023 and 2024 but they got 2025 Sark, 

 

who was a Niblett away from 5-7 and shit. 

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1 hour ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Your problem is you and Sark have different ideas of what complimentary means.  His idea is all of us saying "bro that's a great play call" after running a double reverse jet sweep to Jordan Washington

Sark uses all of our backup TE’s like they are Brock Bowers and it’s infuriating 

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5 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

I don't care to the extent that it doesn't impact his job. Now, if two consenting adults do something that DOES impact the job? Where HR has to get involved, the work environment is messed up...

Vaguely alluding to stuff with multiple times with slowly increasing detail is functionally the same as just spilling the beans once. Do itttt.

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2 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

That's definitely worth repeating. But, rumors, amirite?

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Of course! Totally unsubstantiated multiple rumors from people inside the program who know nothing about a thing Sark NEVER got fired for in the past. 

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9 minutes ago, BurgleBro said:

The simple aspect of seeing the overall field is something so simple and easy to explain yet I never seen Sark defenders explain why he makes it work down on the ground. 

 

He literally tries to do the opposite. Any worse, and he'd be calling plays while doing army crawls up and down the sideline

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27 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

I would argue that there can absolutely be inappropriate "consensual" relationships.  "Inappropriate" to the level of being a fireable offense. 

BTW, I write this as a guy who hired someone for our clinical staff at a surgery center, and then two weeks later we were fucking nonstop for the next 3 years.  It actually turned out much better than it should have/could have. 

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2 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

Is it possible…work with me here…that our decision makers knew he was looking to leave after we lost to OSU in the playoffs? And is it possible that they re-upped with him bc they feared about losing him to the NFL…and they thought he was ok just a vacation. And had no idea he would come back from his absence and then you know fuck the entire offseason in the ass, Miss Junior day, jettison the spring game, jettison spring anything, elect publicly and he spoke to many publications of his admiration for the NFL many of which I have read about his decision to emulate their practices and go to these proven bullshit excuse for practices that don’t work in college. And our decision makers really didn’t think he would whiff on plugging the oline and hamper development of players and generally seem like he’s delusional and detached on the sideline and in pressers. Maybe they thought he’d be Sark mostly of 2023 and 2024 but they got 2025 Sark, 

 

who was a Niblett away from 5-7 and shit. 

Now we’re getting somewhere 

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1 minute ago, Gil Bang said:

BTW, I write this as a guy who hired someone for our clinical staff at a surgery center, and then two weeks later we were fucking nonstop for the next 3 years.  It actually turned out much better than it should have/could have. 

You were banging another dude for 3 years?

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58 minutes ago, Rip76 said:

I don’t remember but was Harsin an “in the booth” OC?

That was back when some dumbass on the board wanted to print shirts that said “Buenos Diaz bitches.”

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3 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

BTW, I write this as a guy who hired someone for our clinical staff at a surgery center, and then two weeks later we were fucking nonstop for the next 3 years.  It actually turned out much better than it should have/could have. 

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