re: In 2-3 years, A&M will compete for SEC-W in football

About 2/3 of the teams in the SEC have enough legit players that IF they find that ONE player to pull everything together, they are capable of having a one hit wonder type of season. The real goal should not be to compete every once in a while but to build quality depth so you can compete every year. The SEC programs that can compete every year are much fewer in number and even those teams have to deal with up/down cycles. aTm has everything in place as a school to become a team that can compete on a year-in/year-out basis but it will be a hard fight to turn capable into reality.

This year Alabama's quality of depth showed up after the losses to last years draft. It showed up again with the results from this years draft. 15 players drafted or picked up FA deals. 15 out of 18 that applied for the draft which included 3 depth players that got FA deals. The next depth test will be what they do next season after the loss of 15 more players to the NFL.