re: Chizik & Roof's adjustments this week

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take away the best player on each of the last national champion winners and see how good they would have been.

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I am not arguing this fact just to say that AU would not have won a NC. That is not the point. The point is to see who was most important in doing so. For instance: Take away Jim McElwain for Alabama in 2009 and they probably still win the NC with an average OC. This exercise is identical to WAR in baseball. However, take away either Mark Ingram or Saban and it's not even close. The point that is shown is that Chizik is dispensable. Cam, Fairley, and Malzahn are not.