It's a combination of coaching and talent, and making sure you are maximizing the talent that you

have. Also critical is having talent at certain critical positions, like QB, RB and WR on offense and DE and CB on defense. If you noticed, both Alabama and Clemson have elite talent at all of those positions, and more. Great talent makes a coach's job much easier. We lack elite talent at any position except at Rover and safety. It's not that we're bad, we're just not as good.