BYU needs to get Sark now

[HawkeyeCoug]

Sark is a really good coach when he is not drinking. Have him come help out the BYU team as community service for a couple of years while he dries out. There's some AA meetings in Utah County, and much less temptation to go drink with the boosters than in SoCal. If he moves on after a couple of years - big deal, he will have coached well. Someone should reach out to him now while his stock is low. If he dries out, his stock is going to skyrocket again.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Ha.

You had us going with that other thread. This one was way too obvious.

[Art Vandelay]

I know you are worried about saying goodbye to BJ (don't worry he has a surprise for you, when you leave Hanoi), and you miss Trapper. But don't worry Hawkeye, it's not your fault the lady suffocated her screaming baby. Let it go

[HawkeyeCoug]

Looking at my post, it may look like I am saying "replace Bronco with Sark.'' My mistake.

However, getting in Sark as an assistant coach, advisor, or member of the brain trust? Absolutely. Like I said, have him here for a couple of years, say we are trying to help him rebuild his life and his coaching career. Bid him well when he departs. Even if he turns back to booze, we can say we were trying to help him.

In any investing, you make money when you buy, not when you sell. Right now Sark is available and cheap. We need good minds in our brain trust, and as much talent as we can get in our coaching ranks.

In a year or two Sark will dry out, and pop back into coaching regardless if BYU hires him or not. He has talent, and football is a talent driven business. However, it would be great to have him helping BYU while he rebuilds his life, and currently he is available at a price that the notoriously cheap athletic department will pay.

It's practical, even if unconventional.

[falafel]

Where would you put him?

[Blueintheface]

Where would you put him?

On the wagon. Manti pageant.

[HawkeyeCoug]

Where would you put him?

Fair question. We have our allotment of coaches, and Sark probably has a couple of months of rehab ahead. Part of what made me think of it was actually the game where Taysom ran all over Texas. After the game, Texas replaced their DC with their video analyst - who just happened to be Greg Robinson who was a head coach at Syracuse:

"Robinson was hired by Texas on July 17, 2013 as a football analyst to "handle quality control evaluation for the team, provide team video review, oversee the Longhorns self-scouting and provide assistance in opponent scouting."[8] Less than two months later, the Longhorns' defense allowed Brigham Young University to rush for a record-setting 550 yards in the second game of the 2013 season. The following day, Texas head coach Mack Brown described the defensive performance as "unacceptable" and removed Manny Diaz from the position of defensive coordinator.[9] Robinson was promoted to take his place.

As defensive coordinator, Robinson was able to turn one of the worst defenses in the Big 12 to one of the best in a shockingly short amount of time, especially considering his 2-year absence from coaching preceded by high-profile failures at Syracuse and Michigan.[10] By the end of the season, Texas led the conference in sacks.[11] "

Getting Sark in as a video analyst would be a great find. It would be a low-stress position that would also allow him to work with former teammate Mark Atuia, hopefully keeping Sark's nose clean. It would be good for Sark, it would be good for BYU. In a couple of years Sark moves on, but we will be a better team for it.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

It would be a low-stress position that would also allow him to work with former teammate Mark Atuia, hopefully keeping Sark's nose clean.

Now he's using cocaine as well? I don't think BYU wants to get involved in that.

[falafel]

I'd be okay if we offered him a GA position.

[Pelado]

I doubt the administration would let it happen in the short term. I have a hard time seeing the powers that be allowing Sark to be a BYU employee so quickly, even if he's paid as little as a GA.

I'd be fine with him helping out.

[old_gregg]

you all need to really knock it off right now

[Solon]

Looking at my post, it may look like I am saying "replace Bronco with Sark.'' My mistake.

However, getting in Sark as an assistant coach, advisor, or member of the brain trust? Absolutely. Like I said, have him here for a couple of years, say we are trying to help him rebuild his life and his coaching career. Bid him well when he departs. Even if he turns back to booze, we can say we were trying to help him.

In any investing, you make money when you buy, not when you sell. Right now Sark is available and cheap. We need good minds in our brain trust, and as much talent as we can get in our coaching ranks.

In a year or two Sark will dry out, and pop back into coaching regardless if BYU hires him or not. He has talent, and football is a talent driven business. However, it would be great to have him helping BYU while he rebuilds his life, and currently he is available at a price that the notoriously cheap athletic department will pay.

It's practical, even if unconventional.

While you're at it, maybe the byu should bring in Crowton too.

[falafel]

While you're at it, maybe the byu should bring in Crowton too.

This is a pretty good idea. Let's get all the talented but flawed BYU guys that have washed out of the coaching ranks and hire them as gardeners, landscapers, waterboys, and equipment managers. They've got nothing else going on, so let's bring them in and collect as much coaching experience as we can on the field at one time. Maybe one of them sees something while he's taking out the trash that the other coaches miss. Can't hurt to have all those eyes on the program.

[YOhio]

Good idea. Worked great for Mike Borich.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Help out BYU as community service? Is he going to be wearing a orange vest and pick up trash around the practice field and after games?

Sounds like a possible idea for screenplay for a Hollywood comedy-drama.

Guy is coaching one of the prestige college programs and gets really into the college party lifestyle...unfortunately he gets a little too into it. Part of the reason why he gets into it, is because he's compensating for his college years when he went to the ultimate straight-laced school. As we know, this is totally plausible because people are more likely to become alcoholics and drug addicts when they've been restricted from the behavior in their formative years. Think of all those hilarious nostalgic flashback scenes to the mid-90s! The wedge haircut, the macarena, all the stupid extreme sports, the brown leather florsheim hi-tops (okay, maybe that's the early 90s). Cast a Jerry Falwell figure, or a Jim Jones cult figure as the president of the school and you're set.

The guy starts at the coaching bottom and works his way to the top of the college profession. Unfortunately, he's got those aforementioned tendencies we all know about due to his lost years at the dry school. He's the cool coach that likes to smoke weed with his recruits. Introduces them to campus "hostesses" and even starts to partake of what they have to offer. He develops a reputation for really liking the hippie lettuce and the occasional blow. Hilarious party scenes abound culminating in doing a line of coke off a hooker's (whatever)! Right then, law enforcement falls upon the party.

While negotiating a plea deal, his attorney informs him that the best he can do for him is getting him probation that includes community service for his alma mater's football team. He has to start over and he's lower than where he started -- he finds himself in an orange vest and picking up trash after the team. Once in a Lifetime from the Talking Heads is featured prominently at the intro of this act in the movie.

Starts out like Old School, ends up kind of like Witness when he falls in love with one of the professors on campus while doing the community service. He finds himself in an abandoned barn in Payson with this woman (don't ask me how) with an early 90s Geo Tracker Convertible they're trying to fix up. While replacing the battery, they turn on the radio and hear Extreme's "More than Words" and fall in love.

A freak accident (something totally hilarious) befalls the head coach of the team during a critical football game. The coordinators are overmatched, so the protagonist has to step in as the coach during the game and against all odds he leads the team to victory. He does it all without the aid of cocaine, which he thought gave him that extra edge at his old job.