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re: Michigan job > Florida job
Posted on 12/29/14 at 3:11 am to TigerBornTigerBred
Posted on 12/29/14 at 3:11 am to TigerBornTigerBred
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Nebraska wasnt a powerhouse until Devaney came along, they were a good program but nowhere close to Oklahoma. In fact the conference was once called Oklahoma and the seven dwarfs.
Nebraska was powerhouse decades before Devaney. The Big 8 was formed in 1928 and Nebraska won like 8 of the first 10 conference championships quote:
He's right though. Nebraska's days of dominance are over. This isn't about the past. Moving forward Nebraska simply won't be able to recruit at a level to stay at a top level constantly. They may jump up and have a strong year occasionally, but not sustained success like in the past.
Why? What has suddenly changed? Obviously the people with in the sport disagrees considering they just got a coach who turned down Alabama and USC twice.
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Verlander is a moron who doesn't understand demographic trends: Michigan has one half of one national title in the last 50 years, three teams from Florida have more titles than that since 1990.
Big 10 football outside of perhaps Ohio is dead along with ND football as consistent national powers- tell you what I'll take the Big 6 (really 5 now) and give you every single team in America North of the Mason Dixon and East of the Rockies regardless of conference over the next two decades.
National titles are subjective.
Yes I do understand demographic trends that is in fact that is my entire point. Demographics have changed several times over the past century+ yet Michigan(along with the 7 other elites) has continued to be a power.
This post was edited on 12/29/14 at 3:21 am
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Posted on 12/29/14 at 3:26 am to VerlanderBEAST
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Why? What has suddenly changed? Obviously the people with in the sport disagrees considering they just got a coach who turned down Alabama and USC twice.
Go look at the top recruits to come out of the state of Nebraska. Last year the four best were only 3 star players and the top player went to Stanford. That left the other 3 players for Nebraska. All the other top players in Nebraska went to division 2 schools.
So, Nebraska got 3 spots filled with in state players. That leaves 23/24 spots you have to fill with players out of state, many of whom live in the south and don't wanna go to cold, middle of nowhere Nebraska. I'm just saying it's a tall order
Compare that to Tennessee(which most say has a lack of talent in state)
Tennessee produced 2 five star,7 four star and 21 three star prospects.
28 players from Tennessee ended up at Division 1 programs.
Tennessee landed 9 of the top 11 prospects.
This post was edited on 12/29/14 at 3:38 am
Posted on 12/29/14 at 4:01 am to VerlanderBEAST
"These trends suggest that the South will expand its dominance as the nation’s most populous region. In the 1950s, the South, the Northeast and the Midwest each had about the same number of people. Today the South is almost as populous as the Northeast and the Midwest combined."
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Posted on 12/29/14 at 4:14 pm to VerlanderBEAST
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Nebraska was powerhouse decades before Devaney. The Big 8 was formed in 1928 and Nebraska won like 8 of the first 10 conference championships
They werent a powerhouse.
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