re: In all seriousness, what this is showing us is you'll have to build it yourself.....

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Hiring within does nothing to preserve classes.

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It helps.

Alabama did the worst thing possible, from a roster retention standpoint.

They hired a guy that only has two years of P5 experience from across the country. He likewise hired a bunch of guys with very little P5 experience.

The players know very few of these guys, they weren't recruited by them, they've likely never heard of a few of them.

DeBoer may be the best football coach ever but this exodus was always going to happen, anyone who didn't see it coming was burying their head in the sand.