re: Could Saban win a national championship at South Carolina?

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Oh no he didn't. He nearly destroyed that program and Spurrier had to do a complete rebuild.

Spurrier has had done an outstanding job at USCe. I think that Saban could improve recruiting based on his reputation but, it wouldn't be that must better than what SOS has accomplished. South Carolina is a small state with two major programs. It would be very difficult to built a championship program there.

My short answer, NO.

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There's some truth in here.

Holtz recruited a lot of guys who could play football, and got us from 0-11 to beating Ohio State every year, so there's improvement there. However, Holtz recruited some guys with low self standards of conduct. Summers and Watson were amazing athletes who couldn't stop smoking weed. Moe Thompson could have been a Pro, but he liked to steal shite. We haven't had the frequency of player problems under Spurrier that we did with Holtz. Spurrier cleared a lot of the bad apples out his first year.

Also, that part about small state and 2 D1 schools is legit, but not totally. GA has 9 million people and 2 D1 programs. FL has tens of millions of people (and 10's of millions more undocumented people,) and has 3 Big D1 schools. SC has 4 million and 2 D1 Schools. LA has almost 5 million, and only 1 big D1 program. However, AL has around 5 million people and 2 D1 schools, and they win hardware all day there.

If something awesome were to happen to clemson (like and NCAA Death Penalty) then USC's recruiting and program would rise a lot. USC already gets the best instate players, but we would get even more with clemson out of the picture. We could build an even better program if we just took the SC Top 10 and then filled in the rest from other states.