re: Bama owns 10% of the nation's Top 100 with ten months to go.

Please refer to my signature. Then point out another program that has dulicated that in the same time span. Thanks.

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If A&M get Kyler Murray, Christian Kirk, Malik Jefferson, and Kendall Sheffield, we very likely end up with the number one class. A lot has to fall our way, but it's not out of the realm of possibility.

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The problem I've started to notice, and what pisses of some LSU fans (understandably so) is that it's less about how well you do than about how well Bama does. Nothing like bringing in a monster recruiting class that you have every reason to be ecstatic about, only to watch another team surge ahead, at least on paper, by bringing in an even more monstrous recruiting class.

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I just hope Kiffin is his replacement soon

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Now that was just mean.

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I just hope Kiffin is his replacement soon

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I wouldn't hold your breath.

It's looking to be a Freek class. Bama has already signed ten players who are ranked in the top ten in the nation at their respective position.

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I wouldn't hold your breath

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Won't be easy finding a guy that would want to follow Saban

And it's not like you haven't hired worse pre-Saban

Owns

Uh.....

I think we lost a war about that sort of thing 150 years ago.

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Please refer to my signature. Then point out another program that has dulicated that in the same time span. Thanks.

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That has as much to do with Saban's ability to coach as it does recruiting.

If it was all about recruiting then he would have never won his first Championship at Bama.

Don't get me wrong. Recruiting is a good percentage of winning big, winning championships ... but I'm not sure recruiting "rankings," per se, are that important - not in college football.

You still have to have some bounces go your way. You still have to coach'em-up. You still have to have favorable scheduling. You'd better have some solid senior leadership. You'd better have some solid blue collar, hard work ethic, contributors.

Saban wins, IMHO, mostly because of his system. His recruiting prowess is the result of the success he has had working his system at a traditional powerhouse in Alabama. As someone posted just above this, we're witnessing a bit of a perfect storm in that regard.

The question remains, at this stage of the game especially, is this super class he seems to be assembling really that big of a deal? Saban has recruited lesser classes and done quite well. This super class might not have the chemistry. There is such as thing as too many stars, too many divas or prima donnas. There is precedent for that sort of thing, historically.

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It doesn't matter one bit, people put too much stock in recruiting these kids IMO.

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If you underestimate recruiting, and specifically who you recruit, you don't understand college football.

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All any of this means is that there is a better chance that these 10 kids will turn into impact players. That's not to say a team that only gets 3 of the Top 100 players won't end up with 10 impact players from that class 3 years down the road, just that the team with 10 top 100 players has a better chance of that occurring.

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Recruiting is an exact science. It's not guesswork. It's like shooting craps. The house will not win every roll but over the long run the house will always profit around 1.5% off the game.