Dude, your facts are wrong on Becton, your understanding of what he's doing is wrong, and I'm not even sure it's worth the effort to discuss it. I heard, again, yesterday that HS coaches who have been recently to Bama and Texas think Becton is on the right track. The players also believe that and they're energetic about it.
The ongoing comparisons to Saban's Bama, 2021, to Sarkisian at Texas, 2021, aren't productive. Saban's entrance to Bama, from who he hired, how his team performed, the infrastructure he started with, and how he recruited is a lot closer to what Sarkisian is dealing with and the choices he's having to make than anything Bama has done in the past 5-7 years. Year 1, they signed Rolando McClain and a bunch of guys named Bob. They took Damion fucking Square in Year 2. Yeah, that second class was very strong, but some of that is concentrated in the reality that Alabama as a state was loaded that year and Auburn was in the process of falling apart under Tuberville.
Infrastructure-wise, he had almost no analysts. His nutrition and wellness department didn't exist. The academic support was trash. The bag network was dormant and idiotic and led to penalties in fucking year 1 of his regime. That shit had to be figured out and built over time. Sarkisian isn't facing quite that sparse of a situation on the infrastructure side as Saban did, but none of that is robust at Texas. NIL could have been a boon immediately for the guy, but his boss was flat-footed and defensive, and Texas got run over. That can be recovered, but it's an unforced error Sarkisian couldn't avoid and unfortunate for us all, because that shit is almost immediately replacing the bag game.
Also, if we're lucky, Sarkisian is a grown ass man with thoughts of his own. Texas didn't hire him to recreate Alabama under Saban. They hired him to win and rebuild the program for the modern era, and they've given him that latitude. Throwing a regular shitfit on this thread because he's not doing it the way Saban did is pointless and tedious.
I wasn't a fan of the Sarkisian hire. I don't like some of the personnel decisions he's made. But the program isn't in smoldering ruin. The guy hired an excellent staff. You can spare me your rants about Coleman, Joseph and Drayton. I've heard them. We all have. I'll happily disagree or avoid nitpicking and await the on-field product. If Seven Win Steve shows up, cool. I'll burn the whole thing down with you. In the meantime, I don't mind Sarkisian's bet on the development side with his on-field staff and players, given what he started with and the limited time he's had to do anything.