Steve Sarkisian has no plans to give up playcalling duties

That mirror needs to start giving feedback

Nor should he

Pretty sure Iv seen this movie.

Then he needs help on game management. EGO kills us all.

Not saying he necessarily needs to give up play-calling, but he needs to be held accountable from above for the lack of offensive production.

Then Sark will take most of the reward right along with most of the blame since it's now across multiple years of personnel who all have similar issues. That's how it works when you accept that much responsibility as the HC. Personally I think it's a huge mistake, but I absolutely hope he proves me wrong about it.

Then he’ll learn the hard way. This offense is garbage and it’s his to own.

“That’s blocking people, that’s throwing the ball to open people, that’s running routes precisely where they need to be. That’s on nobody but me." Are we at the part where he low key starts blaming the players? "We just don't have Championship players".........

Sark has an excellent offensive mind. The better question is are the overall duties as a head coach impeding the offensive strategy and growth. He ain't Jimbo in any way, shape or form but he is starting to sound like him.

He shouldn't give it up. We have open receivers everywhere. Manning needs to start hitting them or he needs to sit.

Hubris going to be his downfall. This has been an ongoing complaint

alumnihorn said:

Sark has an excellent offensive mind. The better question is are the overall duties as a head coach impeding the offensive strategy and growth. He ain't Jimbo in any way, shape or form but he is starting to sound like him.

He is a good HC and a great OC, but at the same time he can be mid.

In the next two or so years its going to come down to him either getting great QB play or getting canned. Which comes first is the question. Offense can't continue to underperform year in and year out.

I can work with Sark's outside sales company analogy. If the founder wants to keep doing outside sales, he has to hire someone else to be the effective CEO. The founder can't do both. Here's a fun Hobson's choice: give up play calling, or cede day-to-day control of the program to Jim Nagy. More to the point, if a founder wants to keep doing outside sales, he should do outside sales instead of founding a company. Five years into Sark's head coaching regime at UT, this is no longer a startup. If the company is still solvent, the founder has already decided whether to be the CEO or hire one.

We’re fucked.

JJHookem4 said:

He shouldn't give it up. We have open receivers everywhere. Manning needs to start hitting them or he needs to sit.

That won't happen.

Guys, he just needs 1st rounders at every position, then he can execute his stuff.

Sort of going against the narrative, but I'd be happy if he addressed what I think are bigger issues. He called maybe best game ever seen in national title at Bama vs Ohio st. but he had better players. Not sure why he can't realize if we simply had an OL (similar to georgia/ohio st) we may have beaten Washington, couple georgia games and ohio st. By end of next month he should identify which OL coach he's gonna hire that would mesh with his offense, and have some of our thousands of analysts/staff members be locking up 3 to 4 portal O linemen. His offense can work, but not without an OL and running game. Not saying there's other problems, but think he's showed with halfway decent line the last two years we've been top four team, what if we had a great line.

That stinks. We all know how this story will end then. He will overhaul the roster on offense after this year and we will win a lot of games most likely. He will never get over the final hump though.

Custer also thought he had it figured out

Good!

FrancoBevo2.0 said:

Custer also thought he had it figured out

Custer finished last in his class at West Point, Hugh Freeze might be your Custer comparison

I don't mind if Sark keeps play calling. From watching the games, he's getting guys open...it's the execution that lacks. He needs a true OC that is holding the offense accountable and is a competent teacher of the scheme. I don't think Flood is up to that task. The more I think about it, the more I think what needs to happen this off-season is to fire Milwee, bring in an OC/QB coach, and let Flood keep the Co-OC role while being exclusively focused on the OL.