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re: Arkansas fans, let's come clean. Air this out once & 4 all..
Posted on 6/23/09 at 9:28 pm to HawgAlude
Posted on 6/23/09 at 9:28 pm to HawgAlude
Here are a few quick take-aways.
There are schools who are not geographically gifted with great talent in their backyard, and yes Tenn is one of them.
So is OU.
Who in the world would actually wants to go to Blackburg, VA? Have you been there?
Michigan has very little talent (some in Detroit, that is about it), if you look at their great teams they are populated with OH athletes.
Colorado won a NC in the 90s.
Ole Miss and MS State compete with LSU, Bama, Auburn and Tenner for MS talent. Do not even pretend there is a fence around that state by any program.
Notre Dame no longer has any advantage other than a rich alumni tradition, hell Montana's kid went to WA.
Resources do matter, but when a school has the resources that most of the SEC has that point becomes somewhat moot. About every school has nice facilities.
What matters the most is the coach and his ablity to recruit top talent, develop that talent, prepare for and manage game day.
There are schools who are not geographically gifted with great talent in their backyard, and yes Tenn is one of them.
So is OU.
Who in the world would actually wants to go to Blackburg, VA? Have you been there?
Michigan has very little talent (some in Detroit, that is about it), if you look at their great teams they are populated with OH athletes.
Colorado won a NC in the 90s.
Ole Miss and MS State compete with LSU, Bama, Auburn and Tenner for MS talent. Do not even pretend there is a fence around that state by any program.
Notre Dame no longer has any advantage other than a rich alumni tradition, hell Montana's kid went to WA.
Resources do matter, but when a school has the resources that most of the SEC has that point becomes somewhat moot. About every school has nice facilities.
What matters the most is the coach and his ablity to recruit top talent, develop that talent, prepare for and manage game day.
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Posted on 6/23/09 at 9:34 pm to SLC
SLC, I hate to break this to you but Petrino is not a very good recruiter. You can make your "best class ever in 09" arguement. ON paper it might be as good as Arkansas 99 class that had Cobbs, Bua, and all those. I don't see them winning the west though like Nutt did by the time they are seniors. His recruiting at Louisville starting slipping by the second class. Only 2 of those made the NFL and they were local talents. and in years before 4 and 5 per year were making it. People like Dyer, Parker Mack, Byran JOnes don't want to play for this guy b/c he don't give a frick about players like Nutt did.
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