Alabama and Clemson will always have the best teams in the county. You got the top 2 coaches in the sport with the top players in the sport. Nothing is going to change until they leave. They both coach the best and Recruit the best.
It's a self fulfilling prophecy with only 4 spots in the CFP, and the committee using "the eye test" which is subjective, and of course, we all know who has the best eye tests based on recruiting...in fact, the committee told what it is ahead of time by the recruiting services.
Thus teams like Alabama and Clemson and OSU and Oklahoma have work hard to be removed from a spot (look at how badly Ok screwed up this year, and they still came within a hair of getting a spot with two losses.
The top recruits want to play on a playoff team, thus they are stacking up on the runway to sign with these same teams.
The key is to open up to 8 or 12 playoff spots. Then the recruits will spread themselves out for better parity.
As soon as I heard he was going to A & M I thought "he's shady enough and has a great recruiting base in Texas" to win it all.
Yea but if they can’t beat Bama or LSU consistently they will never be in an SEC championship game.
success at this level of football is a powerful demon if left unchecked. Someone------Saban, Day, Dabo, etc.-----will reach that stage of "I am bullet proof" and the dominoes will begin to fall. It's happened before at places like Baylor, USC, Ped State and I'm sure a few others. A tipping point is reached in any number of ways----bribes, academic cheating, legal trouble for players or coaches, steroid scandals are a few----that causes the Goliaths to begin falling. It could start in one year, three years or ten years but something will happen to change the course of of a program's success.
That's the way the cookie crumbles.
Until some other coach finally takes those next steps to follow that kind of a blueprint, those two guys can simply sit back, smile, and say "it's good to be the king."
Who knows? Maybe Lincoln Riley or Ryan Day can be in that echelon some day, or maybe Brian Kelly can get those elite talent athletes who can play from day one, but until then, someone's going to have to make it happen.
IMO, he's the only guy out there who would/could take ND to the summit, No Urban, I dont know who's better than Kelly to take ND to a title..So I get it, I understand those who reject him,( Id take him in a heartbeat) but dont complain about the state of the program while rejecting Urban He's the one sure thing to elevate it..I dont believe any of these top guys are squeaky clean..
that ship has sailed...and it ain't coming back.
It's not a question of wanting Meyer or not wanting him...he's not coming here...
said its likely the NFL ship has sailed, and he's not interested in a traditional rival of OSU such as scUM or maybe even a yearly opponent of OSU....and added he may never coach again, sounded likely
He concluded, "perhaps if the ND job opened, he could be interested'
Dont shoot the messenger, thats what I heard Perhaps you know more than me..
Im not in favor of changing the system, i.e., reducing scholarships, simply because two guys have figured out how to dominate
Two pundits, Kirk Herbstreit, and Jim Nantz have spoken out recently that college football is broken, and partly because of these two/ three dominating.....One change I think we'll see soon, is the 8 team playoff Someone on Coweird said its coming At least that would give more teams incentive of making the playoffs It seems like the 4 spot in recent yrs, is now the only spot worthy of discussion..
