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54 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

I'm surprised Sark never had an on-campus visit before he was offered the job.

Fuck "on-campus". He'd never even been to Austin, and thought he would be in a larger version of Lubbock.

I think we have Saban to thank for the hire, ultimately. Probably on both ends.

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2 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

Why is this a new thread? What is new here that didn't belong in the Official Sark Thread of Dominance?

Because it starts with "Awesome" instead of "What the fuck is Seven-win Steve doing here? Is he even a member of Mensa?"

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I could not be more aligned, bought-in, every day, accountable, high GPA, draftworthy, team first, leader, vulnerable, positionless, we not me, come from a good family and culture Wednesdayed than I am right now.

 

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11 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

I realize that this got buried on another thread but ... damn .... I want every recruit and ever parent of a recruit to watch this. 

We are so got damn lucky to have Sark as our coach. If you didn't watch this, you should. 

Also ... holy shit ... Sark must have lost 40 .lbs. He's looking so happy and healthy. 
 



 

That was the greatest Sark interview I have ever seen.

Thanks for posting that.

You are correct…..that should be sent to the parents of every player we recruit.

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11 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

I realize that this got buried on another thread but ... damn .... I want every recruit and ever parent of a recruit to watch this. 

We are so got damn lucky to have Sark as our coach. If you didn't watch this, you should. 

Also ... holy shit ... Sark must have lost 40 .lbs. He's looking so happy and healthy. 
 



 

this is like the 3rd thread to share this video already... and it's great! I'm here for it.

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1 hour ago, Tex Long said:

Because it starts with "Awesome" instead of "What the fuck is Seven-win Steve doing here? Is he even a member of Mensa?"

Tex Long trying to help this thread along.....

 

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The interview is as good a showing as I've ever seen from any coach. It's also a look at one of our great shows, from Third and Longhorn. If you've seen both this and any of their previous shows you already know this. If you haven't, you need to do so immediately.

As a recovering Sark-hater, I'm gruntled to say that one of the outstanding things I see in him now is his willingness to own his fuckups, and learn from them.

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1 hour ago, TrashMaster G said:

Why is this a new thread? What is new here that didn't belong in the Official Sark Thread of Dominance?

Why does awesome shit need to be confined to meta threads that hardly anyone fucking reads cause they're so god damn long?

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1 hour ago, Tex Long said:

outstanding things I see in him now is his willingness to own his fuckups, and learn from them.

The story about him building our culture, and realizing that he needed to be first through the door so he called a team meeting and laid bare his troubles with alcohol, and what he does on a daily basis to stay ahead of it, was inspiring as FUCK. I feel like I'd run through a wall for a coach who showed that level of humility and vulnerability (while still clearly demonstrating excellence on the field, and requiring same from me and my teammates). 

The cynic in me feels like there's always another shoe waiting to drop, but I can't remember this level of excitement that I have for Texas Foootball since about 2004. I guess specifically, the 2001-2002 season where I felt like we were finally on to something repeatable, which 204-05-06 proved. 

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2 minutes ago, capnamerca said:

The story about him building our culture, and realizing that he needed to be first through the door so he called a team meeting and laid bare his troubles with alcohol, and what he does on a daily basis to stay ahead of it, was inspiring as FUCK. I feel like I'd run through a wall for a coach who showed that level of humility and vulnerability (while still clearly demonstrating excellence on the field, and requiring same from me and my teammates). 

The cynic in me feels like there's always another shoe waiting to drop, but I can't remember this level of excitement that I have for Texas Foootball since about 2004. I guess specifically, the 2001-2002 season where I felt like we were finally on to something repeatable, which 204-05-06 proved. 

Agreed

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2 hours ago, Tex Long said:

Fuck "on-campus". He'd never even been to Austin, and thought he would be in a larger version of Lubbock.

I think we have Saban to thank for the hire, ultimately. Probably on both ends.

Saban told him to be wary of the job. Saban's personal experience with one group at Texas trying to hire him while another group successfully cock blocked the hire caused him to caution Sarkisian on the difficulties of getting everyone on the same page. 

Sarkisian should get a lot of credit for the turnaround, but having the support of Eltife and Del Conte, and having everyone aligned has been extremely helpful. Along with outside groups taking initiative with NIL even while the athletic department was uncooperative. It's been a team effort.

But if the coach isn't the right fit, then none of the rest of it matters. It feels great to have the right fit in place.

Along with you, I had a lot of question marks, and the first two seasons sure helped to support that.

There are a lot of favorite parts of this interview, but one of the big ones that helped change my perspective was going over Carroll's history prior to USC, his first year there, then Saban's coaching history prior to taking the Alabama job, and his first year there. I knew Carroll was a lucky win for USC as a coach. Mike Garrett was a terrible AD for USC. No one wanted to work for him. They kept striking out on candidate after candidate. Then Carroll threw his name into the ring and Garrett grabbed at it like a drowning man lunges for a piece of driftwood. 

Saban coming out of Miami was a huge can't miss hire for Alabama, though. No one realized how dominant he'd actually be - how could we? - but everyone knew he'd be great. When LSU hired him it wasn't that obvious, but he'd done some good things at Michigan State. 

But I feel like I didn't have as good a perspective for Sarkisian's outlook until he went over the respective careers of his great mentors like he did.

I also loved him talking about sitting down with Monte Kiffin when he was at USC with Lane Kiffin on staff. Or talking about the coaching trees out of Mike Holmgren on one hand and Mike Shanahan on the other. And any time Kyle Shanahan's name is brought up I always think about how he came to Texas because he wanted to learn offensive scheme and philosophy from Mack Brown and Greg Davis. It's like something out of Ripley's Believe It or Not. 

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7 hours ago, Tex Long said:

The interview is as good a showing as I've ever seen from any coach. It's also a look at one of our great shows, from Third and Longhorn. If you've seen both this and any of their previous shows you already know this. If you haven't, you need to do so immediately.

As a recovering Sark-hater, I'm gruntled to say that one of the outstanding things I see in him now is his willingness to own his fuckups, and learn from them.

HOOK'EM

 

 

I’m an OG third and Longhorn viewer.  They do a great job of disarming players who don’t do much media and also get us many behind the scenes looks at the people, who make the wheels turn, that you would never hear from.  

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Posted
21 hours ago, Zeus said:

we are also lucky to have CDC that a genuine dude

This is the gods honest truth. Look at the upward trajectory the entire Athletic Department is on since his arrival ... it's really incredible. There might be someone better at the AD job than him, but it's a short fuckin' list. 

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1 hour ago, capnamerca said:

This is the gods honest truth. Look at the upward trajectory the entire Athletic Department is on since his arrival ... it's really incredible. There might be someone better at the AD job than him, but it's a short fuckin' list. 

I'm not sure there's a list.  Look at the Sears Cup winners since he hit campus:

Stanford

Stanford

Texas

Texas

Stanford

Texas

Texas

 

Yeah, it was a tight race this year but I don't think I'd put Stanford or USC's AD in the conversation if we're talking the current state of college athletics.

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1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

I'm not sure there's a list.  Look at the Sears Cup winners since he hit campus:

Stanford

Stanford

Texas

Texas

Stanford

Texas

Texas

 

Yeah, it was a tight race this year but I don't think I'd put Stanford or USC's AD in the conversation if we're talking the current state of college athletics.

My only counter-point is that not all Universities have the size to legitimately compete for the Sears Cup. Success in the AD role there would look like outperforming schools of similar size, or resurrecting a sport that has been a long-time doormat, or winning a championship as a serious underdog, etc. 'Outperforming your peer group' is the real measure, I guess. I'm not deep enough into the world of college athletics to compile that list, but there's probably a few out there that have some skins on the wall through that lens, who don't have CDCs endowment or donor base to pull from, so I wanted to leave some room in the list.

Still a short fuckin' list :).

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One thing I liked is him being grounded and not acting like he is something special. There was no need to mention the USC's 4th and 2 call but he owned that mistake and didn't spin it as anything else. Nobody asked him about him being jobless but he has mentioned it multiple times, and those of us who have gone through layoffs know how uncomfortable/embarrassing it is. He could act as a big shot UT head coach but he repeats that he is not ever going to take this job for granted. All these reveal more about character than the platitudes from "personality growth" guru TED talks. This doesn't mean that he is perfect but he is climbing the right mountain, occasional slips notwithstanding.

 

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2 minutes ago, Navin R. Johnson said:

They all start cracking up when Okafor says Pflugerville. That was pretty damn funny.

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On 6/25/2025 at 10:34 AM, 4th and 5 said:

I could not be more aligned, bought-in, every day, accountable, high GPA, draftworthy, team first, leader, vulnerable, positionless, we not me, come from a good family and culture Wednesdayed than I am right now.

+enchubbened

+hydrated

+game-managing in bullet-time speed

hmmm....  dammit, there is still ONE THING we need

only 1

well, 2, until the kickers prove themselves

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On 6/25/2025 at 9:31 AM, TrashMaster G said:

Why is this a new thread? What is new here that didn't belong in the Official Sark Thread of Dominance?

accolades for the new thread

this is indeed the best sarkfest evar

a weapon to be used against the rest of the cfb universe

i passed over it in the offseason thread

absolutely deserves it's own thread

kryptonite in norman and indocrtination station

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On 6/25/2025 at 9:31 AM, TrashMaster G said:

Why is this a new thread? What is new here that didn't belong in the Official Sark Thread of Dominance?

Somewhere between Texags' propensity to start a new thread for every stray thought and this board's obsession with ultimately reducing all discussion about all things to a single unified meta thread is a happy medium. And it's not a fine line, there's a huge swath of territory there.

I'm personally tired of wading through 100+ page threads.

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