Sarc has never proved he is Head Coach Material

he is a great coach and now that his issues are behind him he should be good to go

No I don't do fault him.

But 3.5 million a year for the next five years cruising at Bama and winning championships, while learning all aspects of championship football under the greatest coach of all times... Followed by inheriting the best job in college football in the midst of it's greatest dynasty.. well, that's what you call being set up for success

Or, you roll the dice and go to a coaches grave yard.

I'm not going to lie. I am disappointed. It was a great chance at stability. And with the way our recruiting is going, we could have ... And he could have been part of something awesome.

He won't starve.

But 15 years at Bama is worth what? A half a billion, considering all the business interests etc that a coach at Bama is introduced to?

I'm simple saying the odds were shorter here for his long term success and legacy.

Didn't mean to imply he will end up destitute. Lol.

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But 3.5 million a year for the next five years cruising at Bama and winning championships, while learning all aspects of championship football under the greatest coach of all times...

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Seriously??? Go back and think about what you just typed. How many years has Sark already worked with Saban? And you think there's a lot more he can learn in 5 years that he hasn't learned in 3 years? What the frick has he been learning everything for, if not to take a job like this? This isn't a guy who's never run a program, like Smart and Pruitt.

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And with the way our recruiting is going, we could have ... And he could have been part of something awesome.

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You don't think he's already been part of something awesome? And you don't think he has the opportunity to go to Texas and create something awesome?

You seem to not be able to grasp the fact that for these guys the pinacle of success isn't being an assistant at Alabama for ten years.

You're not thinking rationally. You're just not.

Lol. I agree. He coached two seasons with some of the most talented offensive players in the country that he didn’t recruit, so he’s suddenly head coach-worthy. I mean Mike Locksley coached Bama to a NC game two years ago ffs. He’s 5-12 after two seasons in Maryland.

In his two previous stops he took Washington from abysmal to slightly above average. Takes over at USC, has one above average season and is fired in the middle of the next for personal problems. Tom Hermann actually has a higher winning percentage than Sark and checks most of the same boxes. Sark’s advantages are his less abrasive personality, his ability to develop QBs, and his play calling artistry.
Good for Sark for the promotion and the check he’s finna cash, but I don’t see this ending well for him. He either continues winning at roughly the current level Texas is at: about 8-4 or 9-3 and gets canned in four years just like Hermann. Or his personal demons resurface and he gets fired. If he thought USC was high pressure, he ain’t seen nothing yet. I hope I’m wrong and Sark is a home run hire for them even though I hate Texas. Sark has earned our respect and admiration.

This is a big head scratcher to me. Texas accomplished nothing but to create a headache for Alabama and hired a similar version of the man they just fired.

You're either a good coach or not. The best ones typically grew up with a father that was a coach and did time in Ohio.

Guess I wasn’t clear. Locksley coached Bama to a national championship game. I didn’t say Bama won it. Bama was undefeated up to that game, and it wasn’t so much the offense as the defense that let Bama down so badly. Offense never had momentum because they were playing from behind the whole game. They still managed to get to the redzone most drives though. You can’t blame Locksley on Tua’s opening pick-6 either.

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You can’t blame Locksley on Tua’s opening pick-6 either.

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I mean, we blame Golding for Moses being slow due to injury, and for Malachi Moore getting repeatedly arse raped by Kadarius Toney, and for Daniel Wright just not being very good at football most of the time. I don't see why Locks should get a pass.

Seriously, though, neither Locks nor Daboll was all that good. Daboll took the offensive group Kiffin had in 2016, added the greatest single-class receiving corps in CFB history, and underperformed what Kiffin did in the passing game.

We've been fortunate to have the two best playcallers currently in CFB in Sark and Kiffin, and in between them we had two mediocre ones. We have so much talent that all of them were extremely successful. That's why I'm not terribly worried about this hire.

The only thing that will keep me up at night is if Young leaves and we have no QB.

Locksley and Daboll both had young QBs as well. Locks and Daboll would have offenses just as good as our current one with a 5th year senior QB at the helm.