re: Spinoff: Which SEC program is best built for long-term success in football?

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exactly, Alabama has been on top largely due to the fact that they have had 2 of the greatest coaches in college football history. But the fact is that Saban went to Alabama, because it was Alabama, and would have left the NFL for very few schools.

People citing the past. I dont think you can look at the last 100 years, and say that the next 100 years will be exactly the same. The game is light years different.

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Except that Bama's success isn't just defined by Saban and Bryant.

Stallings won a national title, 70 total games, never finished worse than 3rd in the west and won it 4 times in seven seasons.

In eight seasons, Wallace Wade was 2-0-1 in the Rose Bowl and won 3 sec titles.

In 15 years, Frank Thomas won 4 SEC titles, two Rose Bowls, an Orange Bowl, a Cotton Bowl, and made two more Rose Bowl appearances.

They've won at least one overall conference title every decade the league's existed and would be 4th in all time league titles without a single one of Bryant or Saban's.

I'll grant that nothing in the future is guaranteed, but the game's changed throughout it's entire history and Alabama's always managed to find it's way to the top.