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#228,151
mr.checkerboards said:
Recency bias. I look at a career.
Hence why I don't think the old man will ever get there 3 EE and 1 FF over 25 years isnt impressive.

Those guys both have 8 or 9 EE and 4 or 5 final fours.
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You'd rip Barnes if he went 5 out of 6 NCAATs without making it out of the first weekend, even if the one year he made it out he won it all. Especially if he had the talent that Self has had. You are the epitome of recency bias.
 
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05_never_again said:
Saban (and to a lesser extent, Kirby and Dabo) have ruined fan expectations for what is reasonable. That kind of clustering of titles (or playing for them) is absurd and, by definition, there is only a tiny number of schools that will be able to do it.

Look at the other programs who have won titles or been good at various points during last couple of decades, other than those three. LSU has won 3, and they are pretty spaced out (and their fans are perpetually upset at whoever the coach is anyway). Ohio St has won 2, and they are spaced out + currently hate their coach who hasn't won one. UF has 2, but hasn't been good a consistently good team in nearly 15 years. USC hasn't won one since 2004 and has had a lot of bad seasons since then. Oklahoma hasn't won one since 2000. Texas has one and a bunch of mediocre/bad seasons until recently. Michigan has one and was mediocre until Harbaugh's last few years. Florida St and Auburn each have one, but have also had bunch of terrible seasons. ND doesn't have any. Oregon doesn't have any. Penn St doesn't have any and hasn't played for one.

If Heupel is able to get us into the playoff about half the time that he coaches here, I really think that's all we can reasonably expect given our history as a program.

Overall, the only coach who consistently won/was in the mix for titles, never really throttled down/had bad seasons at some point, and never got chirped at by the fans was Saban. Yet a lot of people (not saying you specifically, just in a general sense) kind of act like what he did should be repeated at their school.
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I think you could argue that RIGHT NOW, Tennessee and Alabama are in the same spot.
 
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Regulator said:
I think you could argue that RIGHT NOW, Tennessee and Alabama are in the same spot.
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If you ignore inertia, I think you're probably right. I know the logo on the helmet matters to recruits probably less than it ever has, but Alabama still has advantages due to their brand. People see that logo and think "they win a lot," and they've got the committee/the media concocting every rationale imaginable to get them into the playoff when they go 9-3 with 2 bad losses.

The only way for them to have no shot of making it into a 12-team playoff going forward is for them to lose 4 games, and even then, if they had multiple wins against great opponents I bet they're still on the bubble. Even if DeBoer isn't a great coach, what are the odds of that happening a lot?
 
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05_never_again said:
If you ignore inertia, I think you're probably right. I know the logo on the helmet matters to recruits probably less than it ever has, but Alabama still has advantages due to their brand. People see that logo and think "they win a lot," and they've got the committee/the media concocting every rationale imaginable to get them into the playoff when they go 9-3 with 2 bad losses.

The only way for them to have no shot of making it into a 12-team playoff going forward is for them to lose 4 games, and even then, if they had multiple wins against great opponents I bet they're still on the bubble. Even if DeBoer isn't a great coach, what are the odds of that happening a lot?
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IMO, Georgia wrested the throne from them right when the landscape was changing, while also finally playing up to their own potential as a program. Next in line, if they can put it all together, is Ohio State and their $30mil NIL collective. We might have made the first big NIL splash with Nico, and it may yet pay off, but Ohio State has blown our collective away and I’m sure all the other programs capable of doing so will soon follow suit.
 
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LotteryPick said:
It does appear that we look good for the NW OL.

Shoring up the OL should do wonders. Nico knew that right side was going to cave. Next year’s unit could be really good
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Nico has to get better but he was put in a near impossible situation. You can’t develop a QB when you can’t give him enough time to set his feet and analyze and/or give him dudes he can throw at knowing they will be open. He’s playing in the fastest league short of the NFL. This **** is hard. His NIL deal doesn’t change that. Putting him behind that OL is like buying a super car and trying to run 87 in it. Putting him out there with these slaw receivers was like buying a super car and putting it on Walmart tires. And somehow we did both at the same time.
 
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