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57 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Everything relayed about Neto fits quite nicely into the "someone doesn't like this guy" bucket. I have never heard that he just couldn't block or play the position. It's all been "he gets in fights and will cost us penalties in key moments" and "he could miss an assignment at the wrong time and get Manning killed". 

I never heard "boy, Stroh took out 3 players on his own offense on one play with his abject ineptitude" but we all then watched him do that. 

I still find myself actually snickering to myself when I think about the practice photo of some DL just tossing Stroh head over heels or sideways like a ragdoll and then one of you fuckers coming onto the thread (wish I could remember which thread and reread that shit) and saying something to the effect of "boy, hope that's not a regular thing with Stroh if he might be starting against Ohio State". Fucking dude was sadly prophetic. 

This is the thing I'd always heard, although it wasn't in much detail. Struggled with assignments once we moved past early install offense and facing a vanilla base defense in practice. I assume he potentially quiet quit once fucking Stroh was moved ahead of him

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26 minutes ago, Goodman said:

That likely grades higher than Hutson's lowlights this season. Waste of a season. Sark's evaluations and leadership must improve.

It didn't fulfill any of our expectations, and it did underutilize some high end talent, but beating OU, aggy, and Arkansas isn't a waste of a season. If you only view college football as championship or nothing, it's a pretty grim hobby (hence why Ohio State and Bama fans aren't known as the happiest fanbases in the sport).

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13 minutes ago, texifornia said:

It didn't fulfill any of our expectations, and it did underutilize some high end talent, but beating OU, aggy, and Arkansas isn't a waste of a season. If you only view college football as championship or nothing, it's a pretty grim hobby (hence why Ohio State and Bama fans aren't known as the happiest fanbases in the sport).

I certainly understand your point about enjoying the things you have to enjoy (like beating every one of our rivals) but I am forced to admit that I view missing the playoffs as a wasted season given all the resources that went into making a run for this year. 

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3 minutes ago, HateYouAndMyself said:

Washington State fans seem to think that Nansen is now the front runner for their job and picking up serious momentum to land it. Not a killer if he leaves but it would certainly suck.

I get the impression that he has not been the best influence on Sark off the field. 

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8 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

I get the impression that he has not been the best influence on Sark off the field. 

I've heard mixed. That old patterns did emerge at one point but that Nansen is one of the few people who actually told Sark he needs to chill the fuck out and got him to listen. Who knows how much if any of that is accurate though even when its coming from people directly connected to them. 

Nansen has certainly been as advertised when it comes to LB development, schematic contribution and recruiting. Tough person to replace though you would think Justin Wilcox is an obvious candidate (perhaps a lazy suggestion but I mean the connections with Sark are obvious and he also coaches LB). 

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6 minutes ago, HateYouAndMyself said:

I've heard mixed. That old patterns did emerge at one point but that Nansen is one of the few people who actually told Sark he needs to chill the fuck out and got him to listen. Who knows how much if any of that is accurate though even when its coming from people directly connected to them. 

Nansen has certainly been as advertised when it comes to LB development, schematic contribution and recruiting. Tough person to replace though you would think Justin Wilcox is an obvious candidate (perhaps a lazy suggestion but I mean the connections with Sark are obvious and he also coaches LB). 

Wilcox was also PK's boss (as DC) at Boise for a while

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10 minutes ago, HateYouAndMyself said:

I've heard mixed. That old patterns did emerge at one point but that Nansen is one of the few people who actually told Sark he needs to chill the fuck out and got him to listen. Who knows how much if any of that is accurate though even when its coming from people directly connected to them. 

Nansen has certainly been as advertised when it comes to LB development, schematic contribution and recruiting. Tough person to replace though you would think Justin Wilcox is an obvious candidate (perhaps a lazy suggestion but I mean the connections with Sark are obvious and he also coaches LB). 

I know this is probably dumb, but is Jimmy Lake completely out of the question? Terrible HC and only so-so as a DC, but him calling the backfield of a PK defense could be great. 

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31 minutes ago, HateYouAndMyself said:

Washington State fans seem to think that Nansen is now the front runner for their job and picking up serious momentum to land it. Not a killer if he leaves but it would certainly suck.

Poster on their 247 board:

I've got it in pretty good authority that Nansen wants the job, and is talking to former players about joining him on staff. That's directly from one of the coaches Nansen is gauging interest in joining him in Pullman.

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1 minute ago, Hookem2147 said:

Poster on their 247 board:

I've got it in pretty good authority that Nansen wants the job, and is talking to former players about joining him on staff. That's directly from one of the coaches Nansen is gauging interest in joining him in Pullman.

Nansen was solid but Sark needs less buddy coaches from past times on his staff

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2 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

I know this is probably dumb, but is Jimmy Lake completely out of the question? Terrible HC and only so-so as a DC, but him calling the backfield of a PK defense could be great. 

To my understanding things did not end well between Lake and PK. Their relationship quickly grew toxic after Lake became his boss and there was some conflict over who was responsible for the declining performance of that defense. It has been quite a few years now since then so who knows. Maybe the relationship could be repaired if they really wanted to make it work. 

The bigger concern with Lake is how much his players seemed to hate him. I'm talking Tom Herman levels of hatred by his players by the time he was fired. There were multiple public incidents involving physical altercations between Lake and his players, though they were very minor, but implications of many more behind the scenes. Part of why Washington fired him. Some of that stuff always gets overblown but there is enough smoke there I think we would probably avoid Lake. 

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7 minutes ago, JohnnyTapia said:

Nansen was solid but Sark needs less buddy coaches from past times on his staff

Most hires are going to be guys a coach has worked with previously or has a connection to. If it's not one of those two, it's a recommendation from someone they trust (Banks recommending Chris Jackson since they played together, etc.)

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18 minutes ago, Tex-19 said:

Maybe Jeff Choate wants a soft exit from Nevada. Surprised he even still has his job there. He could use a do-over.

I would welcome Choater the Goater back with open arms. 

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