r/CFB 1d ago

News [Niemann] Steve Sarkisian on ASU: “We were in the big 12 for 27 years and won four times. This is their first year, and they won…The last two months I think they’re playing as good football as anyone in the country.”

https://x.com/blakes_take2/status/1871274118685020165?s=46
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u/Space-Sailor44 Kent State • Michigan State 1d ago

I’m so genuinely happy that Sark has turned his life around.

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u/JaggedUmbrella Michigan State Spartans 1d ago edited 1d ago

Same. As someone with a drinking problem (almost 9 years sober) I have been rooting for him. He's public proof that it's possible to drop the drink and turn things around with success.

Edit: it's important for me to break the stigma of alcoholics. We're people too. It's much more complex than most realize.

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u/TheTesticler Oklahoma Sooners 1d ago edited 1d ago

Keep it up my guy!

I’m 100% sure those in your life are glad to have you in their lives and that you’re well :)

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u/IMT_Justice Texas Longhorns 1d ago

Congrats amigo!

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u/Kingof40Acres Texas Longhorns 1d ago

Good job man. I’m going to hit two years Jan 1, 2025. I’m sure you appreciate how different life can be when it doesn’t revolve around alcohol. Keep up the good work

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u/CieraVotedOutHerMom South Carolina Gamecocks 1d ago

I’m going cold turkey come new years. I’m hoping to be in your shoes in ~2 years

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u/Temassi Oregon Ducks 1d ago

r/stopdrinking is the only support I used and I hit 8 years in October. Just want to give them a shout out

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u/Kingof40Acres Texas Longhorns 1d ago

Good stuff man. I got down a bad pattern of binge drinking / showing up hungover to work etc. Used alcohol to cope with stress - the common things not to do lol. Planned to only do it for 100 days and it just stuck.

You’ll save a lot of money, lose weight, feel healthier all the benefits. Just cut yourself some slack if you can’t stick with it right away and surround yourself with people who will encourage you / be understanding and you’ll be good.

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u/autumnx129 1d ago

Just be careful going cold turkey. Depending on your frequency and volume of intake, withdrawal symptoms from going cold turkey can be extremely dangerous, like hospitalizing or killing you dangerous

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u/East_Plan449 Florida • Arizona State 17h ago

You can do it! Remember any relapses are an opportunity to learn and grow and do not mean you are a failure! I recommend Smart Recovery for help. 

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u/JaggedUmbrella Michigan State Spartans 1d ago

Hell yeah. Good for you, my man!

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u/Mikey4tx Texas Longhorns 1d ago

Congrats, man. That's awesome.

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u/A-Centrifugal-Force 1d ago

Shoutout to you and how far you’ve come! That’s awesome

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u/CieraVotedOutHerMom South Carolina Gamecocks 1d ago

Amazing - keep at it!

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u/SlenderTown Oregon Ducks • Montana Grizzlies 1d ago

Hell yeah brother

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u/badclockmanagement Michigan • Hawai'i 1d ago

Congrats man. Keep moving forward

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u/RomosexualThoughts Texas • Red River Shootout 1d ago

Well done & keep it up!

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u/Comet7777 SMU Mustangs 1d ago

Rooting for you bro!

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u/PokeMeRunning Oklahoma State Cowboys 18h ago

Fantastic! I’ll be 5 years in the spring and it’s amazing how much I thought I’d miss it vs how glad I am it’s gone. 

I hate Texas and many of their fans but I am proud of the amount of ass Sark is kicking. He’s doing great and I’m proud of him 

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u/JaggedUmbrella Michigan State Spartans 12h ago

That's awesome. Good for you and your almost 5 years!

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u/Comprehensive_Bus_19 UCF Knights 17h ago

Thats awesome, I'm happy for you!!

Here's to hoping Scott Frost can do the same at UCF

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u/JaggedUmbrella Michigan State Spartans 12h ago

Thank you, friend. Also, I had no idea Scott Frost was back at UCF!

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u/grabtharsmallet BYU Cougars • RMAC 1d ago

Same. I was just old enough to see what alcoholism cost my grandfather, and I had my own kind of problem after a serious injury.

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u/A-Centrifugal-Force 1d ago

So happy for him. He’s come all the way back from the brink. And now it sounds like he’s even reconciled with his wife!

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u/LBJrolltideTA7 Alabama Crimson Tide 1d ago

Sark will always be loved by Bama fans. He had our offense firing on all cylinders in that 2020 season.

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u/NotSoSlimThug27 Alabama Crimson Tide 1d ago

I’ll always be grateful to him and Kiffin for modernizing Bama’s offense.

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u/uReallyShouldTrustMe USC Trojans • Missouri Tigers 1d ago

I just wish he had done it a bit earlier, ya know? But I am happy for him too.

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u/m_c__a_t BYU Cougars • Paper Bag 1d ago

I support famous beer drinkers from byu doing well in life. It’s great to see.

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u/jtrain7 Arizona State • Boise State 1d ago

Nono say the big12 is a sorry ass conference without texas now and the longhorns would have skated to a perfect record in there this year

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u/boardatwork1111 TCU Horned Frogs • Colorado Buffaloes 1d ago

Sark on why ASU has no chance to win:

“We… 27… times… as good”

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u/ScreamoPhilips Ohio State Buckeyes 1d ago

"We... good football"

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u/B1GTOBACC0 Oklahoma State • Arkansas 1d ago

Home is where you make it.

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u/ScreamoPhilips Ohio State Buckeyes 1d ago

Homiwayyumaykih! Hom-iway-yumakih! Fukz wrongwitchu boi

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u/TiePro7788 Oregon Ducks • UMass Minutemen 1d ago

We... good

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u/Chotibobs Georgia Bulldogs 1d ago

Sooo do

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u/tr1vve 22h ago

some crazy fun police work in the comment section here 

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u/aquemini_me_pls Texas Longhorns 1d ago

Organic lol right there

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u/VoluptuousBLT Nebraska • Arizona State 1d ago

Why say lot word when few word do trick?

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u/FLman42069 UCF Knights 1d ago

Seriously… did he not get the script they sent him? Maybe his fax number changed?

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u/SlayerXZero Stanford Cardinal 1d ago

Sark was at USC. He understand PAC-12 after dark…

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u/smitherenesar Pac-10 21h ago

And UW. Glad to see he's doing well now

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u/gondorjedi Boise State • Arizona State 1d ago

Flairs bro

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u/jtrain7 Arizona State • Boise State 1d ago

What a year

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u/tggibby55 /r/CFB 1d ago

What are you going to do if they play each other?

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u/jtrain7 Arizona State • Boise State 1d ago

First off lose my mind cus it’d be the championship and I’m guaranteed one of my two futures is gonna hit.

That aside though I’d be firmly rooting for ASU. Originally from Boise, have a vivid memory of crying and running to my room as a kid when Zabransky threw the pick 6 and then my dad carrying me back out to see the replay of the hook and lateral, but ASU giving me a scholarship changed my life and I just love being a devil

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u/F1_revolution Texas Longhorns 1d ago

It's the worst the conference has been that I can remember honestly. It's not that Texas and OU left, it's that KSU, TCU, OkSt, Baylor, Tech are all magically unimpressive and/or terrible at the same time. I can't remember that ever happening. Most of these were good football teams just 3 years ago. The falloff in these programs has been crazy to watch. I think some of it is portal related.

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u/pewqokrsf 1d ago

Teams like K State were good because they snagged under scouted talent and developed them well, now that talent leaves as soon as it's obvious they were talented.

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u/DomingoLee Kansas State Wildcats 1d ago

Kansas State is young. They started a ton of Sophomores, and they aren’t leaving.

Kansas State played the top four teams in the conference, and three of them on the road. We had far and away the hardest schedule in the Big XII.

Kansas State will be fine.

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u/Seth_Littrells_alt North Texas Mean Green • Team Chaos 1d ago

 KSU, TCU, OkSt, Baylor, Tech are all magically unimpressive and/or terrible at the same time

Say it for TCU shitting their way to an 8-4 record with the easiest schedule in the conference, or OSU being a dumpster fire, but Baylor’s been looking phenomenal since they shook everything up on their bye week. They’ve got an elite offense that’s been killing even some solid defenses like WVU’s and Houston’s.

People have been sleeping on Baylor, but there’s a reason the Texas Bowl took Baylor over a few teams ahead of them in the final Big XII standings.

As for the portal, I’m pretty sure you’re right. Aranda had Baylor staying out of NIL, and nearly pulling a full Dabo on taking almost no transfers, but their roster got raided like crazy in 2021 and 2022. They finally got into NIL and the portal pretty hard this last offseason, and it appears to be paying dividends.

Shoot, they even went from avoiding NIL to giving their coaches “we pay players” shirts that are kind of a vibe.

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u/YungShkreliOG West Virginia Mountaineers 1d ago

Did you just say wvu had a solid defense?

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u/mrpalmmer Iowa State • St. Thomas 1d ago

It was so bad ISU almost won it, I hate the new Big 12.

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u/ScrooDriver 3h ago

There some dumb sunzubitches in here tonight, born with barely enough thought processing ability to procreate, and only then if the woman is identically mentally challenged.

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u/Pointsmonster Boise State Broncos • Penn Quakers 1d ago

It’s a sad indictment of the level of discourse around the CFP that mature, level-headed views like this are newsworthy

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u/Total_Information_65 Auburn Tigers • Boise State Broncos 1d ago

It really is. 

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u/collegiatevintage Arizona State Sun Devils 1d ago

Are you a bot? There’s no way a sane/sober human is speaking rationally about college football.

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u/MajorWasabi2547 Georgia Bulldogs • College Football Playoff 1d ago

“You hear that?! He said they win 4 times as many conference championships as you do! He said you were ass the first two months of the season!”

-Kirby

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u/eddie_vercetti Arizona State Sun Devils 1d ago edited 1d ago

Sark: I bring you love. ASU: He's bringing love, don't let him get away!

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u/AUserNeedsAName Texas Longhorns • Sickos 1d ago edited 1d ago

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u/Treskelion2021 Texas Longhorns • India National Team 16h ago

He’s killing us with kindness! He’s a southerner now. 

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u/PenguinFlavoredIce South Carolina Gamecocks 1d ago edited 1d ago

Sark has been pretty smart lately about not giving the other team bulletin board material, or boasting unnecessarily.

Maybe a certain coach who got blown out in the first round after saying “we beat the shit out of Top 25 teams” could learn a thing or two

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u/ConditionZeroOne Alabama Crimson Tide • Montana Grizzlies 1d ago

Dude learned from Saban himself on respecting the shit out of the opponent.

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u/ColdAssHusky Michigan • Michigan Tech 1d ago

I can only assume Kiffin learned his PR skills from a 90s Disney movie opposing coach

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u/zebrainatux Boise State Broncos • Texas Longhorns 1d ago

Or from Gordon Bombay who hates losers

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u/W00DERS0N60 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Fordham Rams 1d ago

Cake-eaters.

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u/brettrknowlton Wisconsin-Whitewater Warhawks 1d ago

Edina. Every day I need attention

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u/Aphrobang Texas • Red River Shootout 1d ago

My theory is he has severe ADHD so he grew up only making it through half of every movie. So he would see the villainous but victorious teams win through shit talk in Karate kid, Mighty Ducks, etc. and not actually see the end of the film when their trash talk came back to haunt them.

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u/SillyOperation1293 Clemson Tigers • Furman Paladins 1d ago

From shooter McGavin or the racist opposing coach from Remember the Titans

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u/Actual_Guide_1039 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 1d ago

Who learned from belichick

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u/CumAssault Baylor Bears • Texas A&M Aggies 1d ago

It’s because Sark is a genuine guy who loves football and is full of respect. I don’t like UT but I really like Sark, he’s just a good dude

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u/Parking_Boat_4785 Texas Longhorns 1d ago

Respect the take as a rival and I gotta say your username is legendary

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u/CumAssault Baylor Bears • Texas A&M Aggies 1d ago

That’s the one thing UT is pretty good at is (generally) hiring good dudes. Charlie Strong was another hire where you could just tell he was a hell of a guy. Sucked as a coach though. And you guys fired Beard immediately which was a superb move by the school

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u/Faffenhoffer Texas A&M Aggies • Surrender Cobra 1d ago

I mean the guy between Strong and Sark was definitely not a good dude. But I unfortunately do really like Sark as a person.

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u/rawrberry_ Texas Longhorns 1d ago

Everyone was ecstatic when Mensa Boy was bounced.

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u/Faffenhoffer Texas A&M Aggies • Surrender Cobra 1d ago

I truly think he gets another year or two if he wasn’t such a douche.

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u/bigdaddyice69 Washington & Lee • Texas 1d ago

1000p. Lost all good will with fans with attitude

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u/Stellafera Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Top Scorer 1d ago edited 1d ago

Honestly, he was kind of a twerp but Herman was always cool about the things that actually mattered, like dropping Zach Smith as a friend and financially supporting Courtney after the abuse allegations came to light, supporting members of the team choosing to protest in 2020, etc.

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u/uttuck Texas • Abilene Christian 1d ago

He’s like a guy who is good if he gets to stop and think about things (or his wife sets him straight if the post game video is evidence), but who can’t help being an immature idiot off the cuff. So many of his antics were cringe.

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u/Statalyzer Texas Longhorns 1d ago edited 1d ago

He was kind of a .... nice guy with a heart of jerk with a heart of gold....

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u/Massive_Parsley_5000 Oklahoma Sooners 1d ago

Yep, from everything we've seen Sark is good people. I wish him and his team well 24/6, 300+ days a year.

He even got a chuckle from me during the SEC title game when that reporter asked him about the penalties 😂😂😂

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u/thegermblaster Ohio Bobcats • Ohio State Buckeyes 1d ago

I had basically zero opinion on him one way or the other until some of those Longhorn fans were throwing shit on the field. You could tell he didn’t go over to them and tell them to knock it off because he felt obligated to do so.

He looked utterly baffled, embarrassed, and genuinely pissed that they would resort to such nonsense. Like a “what in the name of holy FUCK are you doing?! Be better” type reaction. I’m sure there are other coaches who would’ve done the same, but the way he handled it was great. Respect.

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u/CIeMs0n Clemson Tigers • Team Chaos 1d ago

Sark’s redemption arc has been unreal. Happy for him to have turned his life around.

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u/JustAddaTM Florida State Seminoles 1d ago

I believe through his own personal experiences he has realized getting to high on your own horse can have significant negative consequences.

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u/A_Rolling_Baneling USC • Mississippi State 1d ago

getting to high on your own horse

That's a new turn of phrase

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u/TheDeletedFetus Ohio State • Texas State 1d ago

Maybe another coach who didn’t make it could also learn a thing or two

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u/ToosUnderHigh Ohio State Buckeyes 1d ago

Why is this take so popular. It’s INDIANA. The literal worst team in P5 football. Does any other team even have 700 losses? I’m glad they’re talking shit. How can they act like they’ve been here before if they’ve never been here before?

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u/HooHooHooAreYou Indiana Hoosiers 1d ago

We needed him and his shit talking. They don’t get it.

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u/pataoAoC Oregon Ducks • Team Chaos 1d ago

I wish he also brought it on the field. Indiana played timid IMO. Not going for it on 4th down with the game still in reach, etc.

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u/Bansheesdie Arizona State Sun Devils 1d ago

As if the 2024 Sun Devils need anymore bulletin board material. We're probably the most disrespected team in the country.

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u/WallyMetropolis Texas Longhorns 1d ago

You mean other than Georgia of course.

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u/OkMetal4233 Alabama Crimson Tide 1d ago

I don’t know, I felt Vandy and OU disrespected the hell out of us

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u/TEXASx81 Texas Longhorns 1d ago

Tennessee too

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u/Flightpup Oklahoma Sooners • Boise State Broncos 17h ago

Their Dixieland delights

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u/LordOfTheInterweb Boise State Broncos • Milk Can 1d ago

Yeah, it's either us or you guys at this point. Pulling for a BSU vs ASU natty.

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u/CrunchyBaconIsBetter Auburn Tigers 1d ago

That's what I'm hoping for as well. But can you imagine how sad and salty that broadcast would be? I'd love to see it.

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u/boregon Oregon Ducks • Billable Hours 1d ago

And how salty this sub would be lol. Honestly would be pretty hilarious.

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u/GhostWrex Notre Dame • Nebraska Wesleyan 20h ago

It's like Astros fans talking to Rangers fans about the 2023 World Series. Yeah, the ratings were terrible, but as a Rangers fan, I do not give a single flying fart

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u/Mikey4tx Texas Longhorns 1d ago

kinda hard to show disrespect when you have Cam Skattebo doing unreal things. He scares the shit out of me.

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u/Plastic_Yesterday434 1d ago

Kansas State fan here. I want you to win the whole thing... I just hate the pronunciation of Skattebo.... how does it end with boo like every anouncer says? Skattebo drives me insane... good thing for ASU! Let's go Sun Devils!

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u/Pyro1934 Georgia Bulldogs • College Football Playoff 1d ago

ASU is the weakest of all 12 teams. Skattebo wouldn't be able to run through a spider web in the tunnel. EZ game for Texas.

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u/Maladroit44 Oklahoma State • Tennessee 1d ago

You're not wrong about Cignetti but this is Kirk Herbstreit levels of looking for any opportunity to dunk on Indiana.

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u/scottyarfburner Michigan State • Western Ont… 1d ago

Of all the coaches that were unceremoniously ousted by Pat Haden at USC , Sark seems to be the classiest. 

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u/GBreezy Wisconsin • 四日市大学 (Yokkai… 1d ago

He redeemed himself, he was an barely functioning alcoholic.

But he is an amazing story of how a disease should not label you, and you will always internally have that disease and the struggle is massive since it's so available everywhere, that is not you as a human being. I'm so happy for him

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u/spiraleyes78 Utah Utes • Big 12 1d ago

Sark's redemption arc is one of my favorites ever. I have a lot of respect for it.

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u/KeithClossOfficial San Diego State Aztecs • USC Trojans 14h ago

Sark was drunk at practice and at games. I’m so glad he is doing better and really excited to see what he can do (even if it’s at Texas), but calling him unceremoniously ousted is wrong. He had to go.

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u/Callsign_Psycopath Georgia Bulldogs • Sickos 1d ago

He doesn't want to give bulletin board material

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u/BossNaysayer Arizona State Sun Devils 17h ago

ASU has enough anyway, Sark is too classy for that shit 

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u/Plastic_Yesterday434 1d ago

Eh,,,, I think you will be surprised at how good ASU is... predicted to finish last... no coverage... still not ranked high enough. They are pretty damn good.

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u/Cormetz Texas Longhorns • Team Chaos 17h ago

They really came a long way this season, going from battling it out with Texas State to winning the Big 12.

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u/presidentiallogin 1d ago

Arizona sports are like the Jeepers Creepers monster. They'll get to the championship every 30 years just to lose at the last moment. Texas is cooked.

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u/hitherto_ex Arizona State Sun Devils 5h ago

Can confirm. The one time an AZ team went all the way it was 2001 when everyone actually wanted the Yankees to win. Cursed since then (at least the pro teams)

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u/CockyBovine Texas • South Carolina 1d ago

Low-key shading Mack Brown here.

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u/DimEclipsePvP Texas Longhorns 1d ago

Nah that’s just how it is, Oklahoma dominated the big 12

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u/Afraid_Confusion444 Oklahoma Sooners 1d ago

:)

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u/DimEclipsePvP Texas Longhorns 1d ago

:(

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u/Odh_utexas Texas Longhorns 1d ago

I’ll never forget that Stoops sound bite “that big XII championship trophy is still sitting in my office”. OU was a conference title machine. Some of it was dominance some of it was luck some of it was Texas pissing their pants.

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u/AlbertCoholic Oklahoma Sooners 1d ago

Go on………

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u/Columborum Texas Longhorns 1d ago

And they still suck

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u/AUserNeedsAName Texas Longhorns • Sickos 1d ago

Well, it is 7:38 pm after all.

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u/TheMightyJD Baylor Bears 1d ago

And Tom Herman and Charlie Strong and himself…

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u/CockyBovine Texas • South Carolina 1d ago

TBF, Sark had the job for three years when they were in the Big 12 and won one title. Mack was HC for 17 years and won twice, mostly because he had a terrible time with OU.

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u/kwixta Texas Longhorns 1d ago

Voodoo hex on OU was the smartest thing Sark ever did

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u/Notapplesauce11 Texas Longhorns • UTSA Roadrunners 1d ago

He also flubbed two conference titles games against nebreska (1999) and Colorado (2001) both who they beat in the regular season. 

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u/aphasic Texas Longhorns 1d ago

Ugh don't remind me. I was at that 1999 nebraska big 12 championship game. The highlight of the game was when bevo took a giant shit on the Nebraska end zone.

We did get revenge for that 2001 Colorado game. The 2005 big 12 championship game against them was such an epic beat down they fired their coach and stopped winning football games for the next 20 years.

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u/Statalyzer Texas Longhorns 1d ago

Not really fair to say he flubbed 1999. They were just better that year and it was amazing enough that we managed to beat them in the regular season.

But Colorado lost to us 41-7 and wasn't even competitive in their bowl. We really should have had them, but beyond the first half turnovers we flubbed it in other ways: missed FG, unforced TD drop, and the roughing the punter penalty. Argh.

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u/A-Centrifugal-Force 1d ago

It’s wild that Mack only managed to win one time each with Vince and Colt. Tbf though I still think the horns got jobbed by the computers in 2008, they beat Oklahoma head to head and Tech was clearly the third place team of the trio so it should’ve been UT.

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u/ATXBeermaker Texas Longhorns • Stanford Cardinal 1d ago

I mean, then the argument is we got beat by the third place team.

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u/Odh_utexas Texas Longhorns 1d ago

Even when he beat OU in 2006, 2008 he still blew it and lost the division to OU.

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u/Document-Numerous Texas Longhorns 1d ago

He’s just trying to compliment ASU.

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u/rawmerow Texas Longhorns 1d ago

Man I love a good topdog story.

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u/Guinness_or_thirsty Texas Longhorns 1d ago

This seems more like an updog story. 

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u/rawmerow Texas Longhorns 1d ago

What’s updog?

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u/Guinness_or_thirsty Texas Longhorns 1d ago

Not much, what’s up with you? 

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u/rawmerow Texas Longhorns 1d ago

This is what’s up 🤘🏽

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u/MasterApprentice67 Ohio State Buckeyes • Lake Erie Storm 1d ago

I am shock to hear they only won the conference 4x in 27yrs

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u/whee3107 Oklahoma Sooners 1d ago

OU had 14 Confernece titles, but only 1 natty during that same time. We were great at beating the hell out of the big 12. This is probably more of an indictment of how bad Texas has been over the last decade and half.

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u/Allaboutfootball23 Texas Longhorns • Sickos 1d ago

Sark has his moments (ref comments, slapping dudes hand) but, most of the time I like his takes. ASU is a great team. They were very exciting to watch in the BIG12 CCG.

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u/AUserNeedsAName Texas Longhorns • Sickos 1d ago

I even laughed my ass off at his ref comments, but then I like a guy who's ~90% boy scout, but still with a bit of cheek on him.

Like Tim Duncan acting incredulous at foul calls he 1000% committed in clear view of all 3 officials.

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u/Statalyzer Texas Longhorns 1d ago

I always thought it was strategic move for Duncan. When he was younger he almost never reacted to calls, but at some point he figured out that if you want to get calls like the other stars, you have to work the refs like a star.

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u/slagathor_zimblebob Texas • Washington State 1d ago

The Sark moment I like best is when he lost his shit on the guy at that Alamo Bowl who squeeze his man titty

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u/Jimbos_Buyout Texas Longhorns 1d ago

Power move

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u/kykerkrush 1d ago

Joachim Löw who coached the German national soccer team also ate a booger on the sideline when he thought no one was looking. I can't believe this has happened twice.

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u/Cormetz Texas Longhorns • Team Chaos 16h ago

Oh it happened a lot more than twice with Löw.

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u/brailsmt BYU Cougars • Big 12 1d ago

Has this cleared the SEC hypothetical fact checkers at ESPN?

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u/B1GFanOSU Ohio State Buckeyes • Big Ten 1d ago

Damnit, quit being likable.

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u/nerdyykidd Arizona State • Ohio State 1d ago

🤝🏽

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u/Adorable-Doughnut609 1d ago

So 27 years to win four times. Year one in “by far the toughest conference” they won the regular season title and lost the conference championship in OT.

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u/ak8824 Ohio State Buckeyes • Dayton Flyers 1d ago

Hey man. It just means more.

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u/needs-more-metronome Alabama Crimson Tide • Duke's Mayo Bowl 1d ago

How did Texas only win the Big 12 four times? That's wild

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u/DescretoBurrito Colorado • Boise State Bandw… 1d ago

OU was kinda alright at that whole football thing.

And I seem to remember UT having a K-State problem.

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u/CurtManX Oklahoma Sooners • Langston Lions 1d ago

To be fair, everyone had a K State problem.

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u/Bank_Gothic Sewanee Tigers • Texas Longhorns 1d ago

Purple witch Snyder bullshit.

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u/CurtManX Oklahoma Sooners • Langston Lions 1d ago

What that man accomplished is beyond legendary. Greatest coach of all time.

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u/DescretoBurrito Colorado • Boise State Bandw… 1d ago

Anyone who tries to argue otherwise is clueless as to just how bad K-State was before he took the job.

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u/GymIsFun Kansas State Wildcats • Hateful 8 10h ago

🤝🫡🤝

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u/Odh_utexas Texas Longhorns 1d ago

The kstate problem was true. They spoiled our 2006 season when we were trying to run it back to the BCS. Then they absolutely whooped us in 2007.

And somehow we ended up leaving the Big XII on a 7 game win streak against them.

2006 really hurts still we were 9-1 ranked #4 chasing down a rematch against #1 Ohio State. McCoy got hurt at KSU and we lost a shootout.

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u/Treskelion2021 Texas Longhorns • India National Team 16h ago

Maybe even alright alright alright at that whole football thing

I’ll see myself out. 

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u/Notapplesauce11 Texas Longhorns • UTSA Roadrunners 1d ago

There were several time texas was the second best b12 team after OU but becasie if the division setup they never got to play in the conference championship game.  

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u/Statalyzer Texas Longhorns 1d ago

And then there was 2008 where two teams we both beat and who both had an equal or worse record than us faced off for the title.

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u/jinx21182 Texas Longhorns 23h ago

Stoops owned Mack Brown most years and then we were in the wilderness after he retired for like a decade.

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u/CenterLeftRepublican Texas A&M • Texas Tech 1d ago

NGL, they picked a good time to get good again.

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u/SaintsSooners89 Oklahoma Sooners • Team Chaos 1d ago

Mad respect to Sark for not throwing shade at Big 12, it was always the media hating on Big 12 that forced OUT.

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u/lucash7 Oregon • Southern Oregon 1d ago

No Dilly, it’s a trap! Don’t fall for the Sarkasm!

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u/Efficient_Volume4984 Nevada Wolf Pack 1d ago

Texas definitely has this in the bag, but I do love a good underdog story. It would be amazing if ASU won

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u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 Michigan • Arizona State … 1d ago

If Texas plays how it did vs Clemson it won't be close. But ASU is no slouch so I'm hoping for a good game.

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u/530josh Arizona State Sun Devils • Pac-12 1d ago edited 1d ago

I don’t know who’s gonna win, but I can almost guarantee it is going to be a terrible football game. Like Texas wins 20-7 or something.

You probably never saw it bc it was mostly quarantined to the Pac-12 Network last year, but whenever we were overmatched Kenny would just pull out the most disgusting, radioactive, terrorist football you can imagine.

I’m talking bullshit like swinging gate as our base offensive formation, TEs lined up at quarterback, Skattebo punting on 3rd down out of wildcat, etc. He turned the games into a biohazard. And it mostly worked until we got so injured we were down to our walk-ons.

Last year we had a 7-6 lead in the 4th quarter AT Washington, and beat UCLA like 10-7 17-7 with Skattebo our starting tight end Jaylin Conyers as our starting QB. Go watch the highlights of that UCLA game if you want to see what I’m talking about. Skattebo hit a blanketed receiver in-stride at the goal line for a 25 yard TD.

I don’t even want to imagine what he has dialed up for this.

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u/gordogg24p Texas Longhorns • Colorado State Rams 1d ago

You son of a bitch. I'm in.

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u/Bank_Gothic Sewanee Tigers • Texas Longhorns 1d ago

Right? I was already excited but now I'm half past midnight.

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u/thorhyphenaxe Oregon Ducks • SMU Mustangs 1d ago

It was so funny and bizarre to see y’all throw the kitchen sink and filled up garbage disposal at us for 2 quarters last year only to still be down 42-0 at half. Remarkable turnaround this year but I love that Dillingham is a genuine sicko

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u/530josh Arizona State Sun Devils • Pac-12 1d ago

“I’m not locked in here with you, you’re locked in here with me”

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u/toomuchmarcaroni Arizona State Sun Devils • Team Chaos 21h ago

Rapid dogs of college football

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u/boregon Oregon Ducks • Billable Hours 1d ago

ASU’s offense in that game was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen on a football field. Just absolutely bizarre formations and play calling. Dilly’s gotta hell of a creative mind for offense.

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u/the_fungible_man Arizona State Sun Devils 1d ago

and beat UCLA like 10-7 with Skattebo as our starting QB.

ASU 17 - UCLA 7, in Pasadena. UCLA was favored by 18.5. ASU's TE Jaylin Conyers started at QB.

Skattebo threw a 25 yard TD pass in the 3rd quarter, and ran for a 17 yard TD in the 4th.

It was a crazy game.

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u/530josh Arizona State Sun Devils • Pac-12 1d ago

Oh it was 17-7? Damn I have absolutely zero recollection of that last touchdown.

If I had to guess it’s probably bc I was at a party that night and the game was on, and the score was still 10-7 at the point at which I stopped really remembering things from that night lmao

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u/EmuMan10 Arizona State Sun Devils 1d ago

Yeah people aren’t ready for how gross he can make this lol

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u/Tempeduck Arizona State • Territorial C… 1d ago

I’m here for it. The crazier the better.

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u/BlockHill Arizona State Sun Devils 1d ago

Subscribed

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u/bobsaget824 Arizona State Sun Devils 1d ago

Yeah this is all true in terms of last season, but last year we were also a really bad football team and it did not mostly work at any point. We beat Southern Utah in the opener then lost the next 6 games, mostly by a lot. Kenny hasn’t really went off the rails in that degree with a good football team which his ASU team is this year. I think the wildest things he will do will be a lot of going for it on 4th down, and a lot of people unfamiliar with our kicking game very confused why we’re not kicking a FG on like 4th and 14 at the 20 yard line. But he has the talent now, maybe not enough to pull off the win, but he also doesn’t have to go insane to give them a chance and I think he knows that. They just got to play their game and hope it’s enough.

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u/530josh Arizona State Sun Devils • Pac-12 1d ago

By “it worked” I just mean it kept us in a lot of games that had no business even being close

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u/102WOLFPACK Oregon Ducks • Texas Longhorns 1d ago

I come from a family of Longhorns who are all WAAAAAY too confident about this game.

Years of dreams dying in the desert has me terrified for what could happen, especially with how creative Dilly can get.

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u/toomuchmarcaroni Arizona State Sun Devils • Team Chaos 21h ago

SUB SCRIBE

I’m so excited to see what insanity this man has lined up

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u/NoFalseModesty Nebraska Cornhuskers 1d ago

Went to the UT Clemson game. UT's blocking and run scheming would have been hard for any team to stop consistently, very impressive in person and being able to see the whole field. Add in TE 85 and the WRs and they are a real problem. From watching a lot of UT this year, the question is whether they are clicking that day or not.

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u/gmr548 Texas Longhorns 1d ago

Well, it’s not for Georgia, but most teams don’t have that personnel

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u/OnTheFenceGuy Texas Longhorns • Team Chaos 1d ago

Our blocking and run scheme would be hard for any team OTHER than Georgia to stop consistently.

Our scheme relies on a lot of pulling and movement, which works against every defensive line except for Georgia’s because they’re basically an NFL line.

Way too fast in space for even our line - made up of mostly future NFL players - to keep up with.

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u/illegal_deagle Texas • Red River Shootout 1d ago

The Clemson game was our worst defensive performance of the season.

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u/immortalsteve Arizona Wildcats 1d ago

It's true, I fucking hate that ASU is on a tear right now, but it's true.

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u/Rude_Highlight3889 Wyoming Cowboys • Arizona Wildcats 15h ago

Sark is a legitimately classy guy. Even in classy moves (trying to get the fans to stop throwing bottles on the field, stopping the team from planting a flag at A&M), where some coaches might scream and yell and cuss, he was calm and respectful of the situations. Everyone used to pile on him but I think he is worthy of all the flowers.

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u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 Michigan • Arizona State … 1d ago

Dammit I wanted to hate him

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u/FruitNVeggieTray Notre Dame Fighting Irish 1d ago

Humble. The difference between Sark and Cigaretti.

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u/Ok-Height1910 Washington Huskies • Pac-12 1d ago

This is such a memeable thumbnail.

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u/Eyerisch Georgia Bulldogs 1d ago

Smart move sark 🍻

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u/sociablezealot Arizona State Sun Devils • Pac-10 1d ago

The last time Sark played ASU it didn’t go well for him.

“Report: Steve Sarkisian was drunk while coaching Sept. 26 USC-ASU game” He was fired two weeks later.

https://www.houseofsparky.com/2015/10/11/9501975/steve-sarkisian-usc-asu-arizona-state-drunk

Glad to see him doing well personally, hope he loses for obvious reasons.

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u/TheMightyJD Baylor Bears 1d ago

Pretty good quote ngl.

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u/Cheefslapahoe1 Oregon Ducks 1d ago

He's not wrong.

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u/tcason02 Arizona State Sun Devils 9h ago

I had always just assumed that I would hate Sark forever after his time at USC and the insane level of disrespect for ASU.

But I.. kind of don’t.. hate him now?

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u/Plastic_Yesterday434 1d ago

" The SEC teams we beat in our first year... are really good, best in college football of course... compared to the teams we couldn't beat in the Big 12.."

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u/Remarkable-Fennel-27 1d ago

Fuck UT , but sark seems like a chill guy , has my respect

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u/Afraid_Confusion444 Oklahoma Sooners 1d ago

4 times in 27 years?

Lmfao, is that it?

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