SARK: Rebuilding Texas, His Way

Steve Sarkisian couldn’t score an interview, much less a job in coaching the offseason after USC fired him in October of the 2015 season. As it became clear that Sarkisian wouldn’t be on a team’s staff for the 2016 season, he reached out to contacts at FOX to become a color commentator that season. He was hired in June and his first scheduled game was a Week 1 matchup between Oklahoma State and Central Michigan, which ended up an instant classic and a major upset.

But Sarkisian would never call that game. Or any other game. The months of July and August are hard on college football junkies. Sarkisian never experienced that drought because he was always on a team, as a quarterback at El Camino Junior College or BYU or with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and as a coach at stops such as USC and Washington. This was his first true offseason. He didn’t like it.