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re: Nick Saban's 1st game at Michigan State - interview at the start
Posted on 5/17/17 at 12:36 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Posted on 5/17/17 at 12:36 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Their great teams were almost ALL built on the Prop 48 guys. Once they lost that they really lost their pipeline to guys from Texas, California and Florida. They never routinely beat out big programs for those kids (like Michigan, Ohio State, etc did in Florida). Add to that their style and what they did with Midwestern kids on the lines and the fact that those things don't really work in today's game...
Their endowed county walkon program ending really hurt too. They stock piled Nebraska kids on those "scholarships".
Roster size being slowly reduced by the NCAA hurt them as well. Osborne won titles after this went into effect, but he had the program humming along for a couple decades by then.
Rebuilding it with all these limitations that Devaney and Osborne didn't have to deal with makes it a much tougher job now.
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Posted on 5/17/17 at 2:32 pm to CapstoneGrad06
The best they can hope for is a Snyder/KSU or Boise St. type run. They need Texas and/or Oklahoma to be down during their heyday.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 9:02 am to CapstoneGrad06
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Rebuilding it with all these limitations that Devaney and Osborne didn't have to deal with makes it a much tougher job now.
Firing Frank Solich hurt them as well. They haven't been anywhere near as dominant a program since they let him go. Meanwhile, Solich has been coaching at Ohio since '05 and has been taking them to bowl games on a fairly consistent basis.
This post was edited on 5/18/17 at 9:05 am
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