re: Matt Zenitz reporting Sark to interview with Auburn Sunday

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Everybody is a great recruiter with the A on their chest.

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Sark was a fantastic recruiter at Washington. Coming off a literal winless season.

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Everybody is a greet coordinator when you have the talent advantage in every single game.

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Yea, that's pretty clearly not true. At all.

I hate to say it, but I think too many people are giving Sark an easy benefit of the doubt for his exit at USC 5 years ago by blaming it purely on alcoholism. There seems to be an assumption that if he was fired over alcohol and he doesn't drink anymore, then that whole disaster at USC is an irrelevant part of his past.

Yes, alcohol was the obvious cause of his firing, but I think people are forgetting just how much of an extreme outlier his behavior was in the modern era of college and NFL coaching. I'm sure there are tons of coaches out there with alcohol problems, even to the point of being high functioning alcoholics. But I can't think of a single other, publicly known instance in modern times where the HC of a major organization was obviously drunk at a practice or especially at a game on live tv. It is wildly undisciplined behavior that I'm not so sure can be 100% explained by having a disease for which he is presumably cured. There are likely other emotional forces at play with someone who allows alcohol to have that level of affect on them, and I don't know that those can be cured by simply not drinking anymore.

The AU job will have even more pressure and stress than the USC job had. He has been a successful coordinator during his recovery at Alabama, but that is within a very structured organization with a strong figure keeping an eye on him. Being the HC where it is your job to absorb the stress of the whole organization and keep an eye on everyone else within it is a whole different ordeal. I would want to see him eased back into that role at a university with a lot less pressure than Auburn. And I mean that with nothing but love and best wishes for Sark.