re: Teams with legit shot to win CFP every year

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Bama must get the post-Saban hire exactly right, or will spend 10 years in the wilderness

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If by wilderness you mean Top 10 program that wins 9-10 games every year and competes for the big prize every few years, sure.

If by wilderness you mean 6-6 Mike Shula/Mike DuBose probation era stuff

Les Miles rode the Nick Saban machine for 3 straight Top 5 seasons before the eroded away and it became his program entirely (in which he had a great class in 2010/2011 and outside of that was a 3-4 loss team). Whoever takes over for Saban, and I trust the guy who hired Nate Oats to hire someone is good at their job, will walk into a program with a top 3 national roster and an infrastructure second to nobody but maybe Georgia.

The only time in the past 75 years where Alabama has been a 5-6 loss program is when it had crippling scholarship reductions, and even then it would pump out a Top 10 team every 3rd year. Expecting that to happen when Saban leaves is pure silliness.

Alabama finished ranked in the Top 20 5 of the 7 seasons of the "horrible" post-Bryant/pre-Stallings era of the 1980s. And Bryant left Perkins a pretty bare cupboard upon retirement, unlike what Saban will leave.

Kirby will walk to Ttown.. Havent you heard?