USC expected to hire Sarkisian

[Chrispy]

 

[NAHSTE]

Rest of the Pac 12 seems to be rejoicing.

:lol4:

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Bad hire. He couldn't bring Washington higher than mediocre while he was there. I am sure he'll bring Tosh with him and he'll probably keep Coach O in some regard, but this just seems like a re-tread hire, hiring from the Carroll tree.

 

[Chrispy]

Bad hire. He couldn't bring Washington higher than mediocre while he was there. I am sure he'll bring Tosh with him and he'll probably keep Coach O in some regard, but this just seems like a re-tread hire, hiring from the Carroll tree.

Coach O is gone

 

[Woy]

What a lifeless hire.

 

[Hasselbeck]

I will never doubt Taters again. He's called this shit since September.

:rockclap:

 

[ram29jackson]

Bad hire. He couldn't bring Washington higher than mediocre while he was there. I am sure he'll bring Tosh with him and he'll probably keep Coach O in some regard, but this just seems like a re-tread hire, hiring from the Carroll tree.

I doubt your negative observations come to pass. He did great with a school that gets less recruits. He will do much better than Bo Pelini has done at Nebraska with the talent he will have.

 

[Sharkweather]

If he would have been able to keep Orgeron and bring Tosh with him from UW, then he might have a shot to mask his mediocre coaching with possibly the top two recruiters in the country.

No Coach O will make that a little difficult, I think Sark is gone in 3-4 years.

 

[Villain]

I thought Sarkisian was going to be Pete Carroll's successor before Kiffin got the job.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

I doubt your negative observations come to pass. He did great with a school that gets less recruits. He will do much better than Bo Pelini has done at Nebraska with the talent he will have.

Wut?

Washington is consistently in the Top 25 nationally in recruiting.

 

[NAHSTE]

Wut?

Washington is consistently in the Top 25 nationally in recruiting.

Let these corncobs in the chatbox tell it, it's the Vanderbilt of the Pac 12.

:tiptoe:

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Washington has finished, consistently, around fourth in the Pac12 in regards to recruiting during Sark's time. Mostly behind USC, Oregon, UCLA and then sprinkle Stanford in occasionally.

They have finished, on average, somewhere around 6th...with a peak of 3rd, bottom of 7th in the Pac12 rankings.

Yeah, Sark isn't that bad...but USC could have made a better hire.

 

[Hasselbeck]

Yeah, Sark isn't that bad...but USC could have made a better hire.

I'm not a fan of the move, but I am not sure this is correct. Once Sumlin and Petersen turned them down.. it became very muddled. USC sad to say isn't the job it once was. USC is the 2nd best team in their own city now and now they have Stanford, Oregon and Arizona State to deal with (assuming Graham stays). They barely out-recruited Utah this year, though the coaching uncertainty likely played a major role in that, it's also very telling.

 

[NAHSTE]

Feldman has some good background on the hiring process:

After a whirlwind 72 hours, Steve Sarkisian landed the USC coaching job, as the school announced on Monday afternoon.

The 39-year-old Sarkisian, a Torrance, California native, spent five seasons at Washington and led the Huskies to a 34-29 record after taking over a program that went 0-12 in 2008. He led Washington to an 8-4 record this season behind an offense that ranks eighth in the nation in total offense.

Washington finished the regular-season by winning four of its final five games.

The Trojans' coaching search took a couple of big twists last weekend. First, Sarkisian's team rallied to beat arch-rival Washington State on Friday and then a day later, Ed Orgeron's USC squad lost by three TDs to archrival UCLA. Word is Orgeron was getting serious consideration for the vacancy and believed he was in line to get the job, but that changed with the loss, opening the way for Sarkisian who had a lot of juice with folks close to AD Pat Haden.

On Sunday, there was a national media report that Vandy's coach James Franklin was a frontrunner for the vacancy, but sources told CBS that was never the case. Sarkisian had met with Trojan brass over the weekend and emerged as the leader for the job.

“We are delighted to welcome Steve Sarkisian back to the Trojan Family,” said Haden in a statement Monday afternoon. “We conducted a very exhaustive and thorough search, pinpointing about 20 candidates and interviewing five of them. We kept coming back to Sark. He is the only one who was offered the job. I believe in my gut that he is the right coach for USC at this time."

 

[ThomasTomasz]

Sarkisian is at least younger and can relate to the players and innovate some. However, like the rest of you are saying, this is USC, they could have hired a much better coach.

 

[Golden Taters]

I even reminded Hass last night this would happen.

Of course he didn't believe me and said Sark wouldn't even be in USC's top 4 :dd:

 

[ram29jackson]

http://thebiglead.com/2013/12/02/af...jan-and-she-was-pelted-with-beer-and-bottles/

 

[Villain]

http://thebiglead.com/2013/12/02/af...jan-and-she-was-pelted-with-beer-and-bottles/

 

[BiggaAdams]

USC should be able to get just about anybody they want. Sark is a good hire for a mid tier school, but for a top tier school, not so much.

 

[ram29jackson]

USC should be able to get just about anybody they want. Sark is a good hire for a mid tier school, but for a top tier school, not so much.

says what ? he's only 39, you have to start somewhere...he took an 0-12 team and made them 5-7 the following year. he beat USC while they were still strong. He knows how to game plan and recruit...he kicked Nebraska's ass in a bowl game...he got Washington into bowl games and they hadn't been bowl eligible for 10 years.

he did more with less and he was on USC's staff in the past and has all the recruiting connections. He wont miss a beat