A Quick Reflection On Steve Sarkasian For Rest Of 2009
by Nestor on Nov 8, 2009 10:07 AM PST
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PrintI wanted to make this a stand alone post. One of the Bruins I felt most happy for yesterday was none other than Norm Chow. It was fun to see the Bruin offense roll up 455 yards of total offense with a combination of red shirt freshman QB and a much maligned senior QB behind an offense line that was completely rebuilt from scratch. They did that to a Washington team supposedly led by superstar proteges from Pom Pom Carroll's program. Guess Sarkasian and Holt didn't look the geniusies they were when they had to go up against Bruins without having a 2 deep roster of 4/5 star All Americans all over the lineup.
Of course there has been a lot of glowing reviews of Sarkasian after they pulled of that "upset" against Southern Cal playing with its backup QB. Perhaps the guy will turn out to be a solid coach. We will find out the answer in next 2-3 years eventually (just like we will get the answers re. Lane Kiffin).
However, I think here is a question all Washington fans and Pac-10 observers needs to keep in mind. I asked John Berkowitz, our SBN colleague who runs the solid UW Dawg Pound blog during the BN podcast thread last week how many games he thinks Huskies would have won last year if Locker didn't go down. His answer was "3-4."
It's a number people who love keeping an eye on Pac-10, might want to make a note of for rest of the season.
Good luck to Sarkasian and the Huskies rest of the year.
GO BRUINS.
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Now we just need te offense to do this every week.
The one thing that has always bothered me about Sark is that CNC is the guy who recruited him from El Camino College to play at BYU then later got him his start in coaching at SC only to have his loyalty repaid by Sark accepting Pom Pom’s offer to have his mentor’s job before CNC had left.
I was also happy for CNC because he had to endure a few weeks of loads of people questioning his coaching and play calling to his loyalty to stick with Kevin Prince as our starting QB. He has people eating crow this week and hopefully he will for the rest of the season.
Coming full circle
It’s nice to have our Bruins back in the win column. There is still a lot of work to be done, but I wanted to point out that the Bruins have met and dispatched both Kiffin’s Volunteers and Sarkisian’s Huskies. Now it’s a simple matter of taking care of that which spawned forth these two.
by Westwood is the best wood on Nov 8, 2009 12:00 PM PST reply actions
They should've beaten ND and ASU
Two losses you can blame on coaching (the ND one, on officiating as well, as UW had clearly crossed the goal line on that last stand). You can even blame their loss to us on coaching — they got 5 TOs, after all, and why didn’t they run the ball more?
That said, who on earth ever considered these guys “superstars”, other than understandably hopeful Huskies fans? Sark was blamed for all of USC’s offensive disappointments the last several years, and considered the reason they haven’t won a title post-Chow. Nick Holte didn’t call a play at USC, and had a horrible record as a head coach at Idaho.
Maybe that’s how they have to be billed this year by media who have nothing else to say, but they were never considered superstar proteges (Holte isn’t even a protege).
Protoges
I would imagine that the opportunities that have been presented to Sarkisian and Kiffin would not have been there had they not been linked to justsc*. Both of these guys ended up at major programs; there were plenty of other candidates with longer resumes who’d paid their dues.
by Westwood is the best wood on Nov 8, 2009 12:26 PM PST up reply actions
very thin resume to take over a name program like UW
I never liked the hire. I always think its better to hire someone who has built a smaller program than someone who came into a successful program as an assistant and didn’t take that program any further than when he found it.
"when you've seen how big the world is, how can you make due with this?"
Pretty unhappy with the sark hire
I’m both a Bruin and a Husky, I was really unhappy with the sark hire. They haven’t really had a great coach, with the exception of CRN, since I was in grad school with Don James.
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