actually he would
we traded an average HC for a below average HC and paid $15M to do it
What did it take to get Tom Herman out of Austin? A buyout of approximately $15.4 million for him and including the rest of the staff, a total of $24 million. Texas will also have to pay another buyout to get its new coach.
With the amount of money exchanging hands for buyouts at Auburn and Texas there's got to be something going on behind the scenes that we just don't see. Does Texas have an impatient billionaire or two on hand to cough up this amount of cash?
It's the best explanation for what is essentially a rash business decision in two parts - firing Herman given his buyout & going on to hire such a mediocre fill-in, Sark.
I guess somebody with enough money had enough with the sputtering Texas offense and demanded to look like Bama's offense without apparently realizing that Sark isn't going to bring an ounce of Bama's talent advantage with him? Even when Sark has the talent advantage (he does recruit well), which he did for most of his games at Washington and USC, he only attained 34-29 and 12-6 W/L records respectively.
To a lesser extent I blame the "Saban effect" in terms of too many ADs/GMs thinking they are just one hire away from getting what Bama has/New England had. Or to put it this way, too many ADs/GMs think they can get their own personal Saban/Belichick if they hire one of their assistants.
To a more immediate extent, my hunch is that those in Austin are spooked by Jimbo turning the corner in Aggie land, which - given this was the one proud season in College Station - is another overreaction. TX A&M paid whatever it took to bring in a big name and now Texas wants to act like it's doing the same thing. Except, Sark.
tl;dr: there's a lot of recklessness at the top of college football