Nothing but positives came out of the Rose Bowl and Sark being there. Unfortunatly, the last 6 years of UW football has taught us to find some fault in every action and to expect the worse. I, for one, have wiped the slate clean and am looking at everything with a renewed positive focus – (I kind of have to for my own sanity). I’m hoping more people can adopt this mentality until Sark, Woodmert or the players give us a reason to think otherwise. So far, in my opinion, Sark has came up all Aces!!!

I was disagreeing with fellow Husky fans prior to the Rose Bowl trying to make the same point. Just look at all of the Positive Press the Huskies got during the Rose Bowl. I am so tired of the negative postings. Lets all turn the chapter. It’s like everything has been so bad for so long nobody wants to believe things can change. I for one am onboard.

when Mike Price left for Alabama, I didn’t think he should coach WSU’s bowl game. Obviously it was important to Price, and I think WSU owed it him to coach one last game. It appears that coaches and their former school don’t want an announcement made until the end of the season, but the gaining/hiring school wants to make the announcement and get the alumni off their back.

I saw nothing wrong with Sark coaching in the Rose Bowl. During the dead period, he actually got publicity for UW. He met kids watching the SC practices, that had to be good also. Most people don’t know anything about the asst coaches, Sark got great publicity during the game. SC has this killer defense, but little was said about the DC.

No matter how you feel, he is now our full time head coach. Go dawgs!

I totally agree John. If he did not coach it would have been perceived that he gave up on the kids, without gaining anything. I think he would have lost opportunities for the dawgs. It was a good move.

You said it all John….plus if you look at how Sanchez embraced Sark after the game…there is an emotional attachment that he has for those players and vice versa. If he wanted to go ahead and coach those kids that he has coached for 4 years who are we to say that that is wrong.

It shows me that he cares about those players and that is what he is going to bring to this team.

Not just rushing the kids off to run the steps.

The thing is there are some nutty fans out there. They’ll find a problem with anything. The reality is there is a short transition period and we have to live with that. Like you said however there are some very strong positives with Sark coaching through the Rosebowl, national press and exposure etc. Most fans will agree with what you said but there is a fringe element, they’re entitled to their opinion and I guess we have to accept that those fan/fanatics are a part of every teams fan base.

I saw nothing wrong with it. Sarkisian strikes me as being highly motivated to succeed. I don’t think he would do something he thought would hinder his success at the University of Washington.

It is nice to have a head coach who I believe wants the same thing for the football program as I do.

It looks like the cougs are trying to go after Semisi Tokolahi. Did any of you guys notice he was visiting the palousy on January 9th? I’m sure they’ll put the full court press on him because ANY kind of perceived victory by wswho over the Huskies is a reason for celebration over in Palooserville?

Do you guys detect a small amount of animosity for our brothers the cougs?

easy to say it was a great call today…. BUT let’s be honest; sark coaching was a risk for us / him (let’s call it a calculated risk).

certainly from a personal perspective any coach would want to continue coaching in epic events like the Rose Bowl. no brainer.

but…

circumstantially, the huskies are in a complete dungeon of errors and terrors and it makes absolute sense to me that many fans are looking for a coach to come “here” and start “here” immediately. we really don’t have room for more fiddling while Rome is almost burned to hell. that’s reality. we need someone here NOW filling out the coaching roster, making a decision on those unis, game day experience, off-season training program, studying the recruit list to see who he can get even if it is dead period. know where he wants to be the second dead period is open season. stuff like that. husky fans deserve that and let’s be honest, woodward and emmert promised that kind of action. they failed in that respect.

now, as far as the actual coaching goes, i know i’m not the only one who thought the trojans offense wasn’t exactly the greatest show on earth this year. they played great yesterday and obviously sark made great play calls, but if they were the weak spot of the trojans most of the year, is it not plausible that sark might not have had a kick-ass display yesterday in the rose bowl? if he didn’t pwn the nittany lions, then what would the thoughts be?

sark came out a winner yesterday and so did the huskies, but i’m just saying that there’s a very reasonable argument why he should not have been there.

Things can get way carried away on dawgman and you are right on. Really, Sark had a spectacular game plan and it showed across the country. I think it helps the recruiting to be able to associate Sark with USC, plain and simple. It also shows some class to honor your comittments and be able to work so effectively with USC when they know you have moved to Washington.

I think a lot of people react emotionally and like you said they DO NOT want to be proven wrong or will admit they’re wrong. It’s a symptom of our broken culture.

I think it’s safe to say Sark sees his biggest need as recruiting and this is last cance to be around usc type recruis even if he isn’t going after them. Did a pretty good job of shutting up his play calling critics I’d say also USC thougholy beat up a penn state team that should have been undefeated and gave up only 12 points a game

I’m assuming you guys are talking about the negative postings on other sites. I don’t see any here. What possible negative came out of him kicking Penn States tail! The USC D was giving up 7.8 points a game so why wouldn’t sark be conservative this year score two td’s and win but he sure didn’t call conservatively against Penn State he tore them up and let USC D coast for once. He showed he adjusts to the opponent something Ty was clueless in doing

One thing that just bothered me about ousted coach Willingham? When the dude was hired here, the meat of his introduction was based on “let’s be champions”. But to this day I can’t recall Ty mentioning how we were going to achieve that. Four years later and fired, that speach still stinks. Why? Because he didn’t mention how we were going to achieve championship contention.

Now what I like about Steve Sarkisian? He has not to my recollection discussed anything remotely associated with “being a champion”. He’s mentioned having fun and bringing excitement back to the program. He’s mentioned going to work (coaches), hitting the road (recruiting), and hiring the best available coaching staff. Not once has he said let’s be champions. He knows that it will be a process to get there. He knows that you have to build upon successful seasons to get there.

Has he said all the right things? I think without a doubt and to me that is the making of the great coach. Ty just said “let’s be champions” but didn’t give us anything as to how we were going to get there. Looking back, I’ll bet Ty hated his job at Washington. It was not fun, nor exciting, it was dull, we lost huge. And what if a lot of his staff members are glad they were released from their duties? Having to grind thru all that misery, nowing that the team you’ve sent out onto the field has lost its heart and desire. Trying not to be so negative…

But WOW! Talk about a fresh face and saying all the right things. I can see this hire as a home run. Let’s hope because anymore seasons like we’ve just gone thru and our Washington Huskies might leave town like the SuperSonics!

I thought it was great…