Feel free to enlighten me.

-Cheated all throughout the 90s and early 2000s, sanctioned twice 95 and 02?
-02 lost 15 scholarships total over 3 years.
-off sanctions in 05 class. 05 class finished 21st, 06 class 15th, 07 class 13th.
-Saban arrives in 07, from 08 on vast majority #1 classes and hands down top program in CFB.

What was I wrong about?
-Tennessee needs to recruit at a high level OOS? I mean if Tennessee was loaded with blue chip prospects you don't think they would be better off?
They used to grab top prospects from all over when they were at their best. The right hire would bring that back. If we had a good player in La back then he was going to Miami, FSU, or Tennessee.

-Alabama as a state doesn't have as much talent to go around as a Louisiana or Georgia when you factor in Auburn?
^ yes I know you are close to the pan handle and Georgia, so are others and LSU is right next to east Texas

-Tuscaloosa doesn't exactly recruit itself (it's not LA or Austin)
-Alabama tried to hire Rich Rodriguez he declined

-Alabama could very well be in the teens in recruiting annually and not won any championships like Tennessee if Saban (GOAT) didn't become available or RR hire went through

-Same coach coaches at LSU, UGA, or UF in today's game he would be just as successfull as he would be at Alabama.
^ those are absolutely your titles, but Saban was winning wherever he went.

-would Les Miles have done better at Alabama than LSU over 11 seasons (avg 10+ w per year) recruiting against auburn while Saban locked down Louisiana and cherry picked?

-Would mark Richt have done better at Bama than he did at UGA? I think Saban would have locked down Georgia like Mack Brown used to lock down Texas. Richt couldn't come close to that.

-If you had hired Rodriguez and Saban leaves Miami you don't think he would have gone somewhere else, he would have just stayed out of the college game? Do You think he wouldn't immediately start winning wherever that was? Or would he have said "no other program is worthy of my time"
^ So another program would be the "Bama" instead of you. It could have been a number of programs: UT (either), Auburn, UGA, UF, USC, FSU, OSU, MICH, ND...

You might not be as bad off as Tennessee, you might be just like LSU who knows. But a good to great coach is not Saban, and no one recruits like Saban.

At the end up the day you'll probably just tell me to STFU again or TLDR. But this is a football forum and I'm discussing football. You are welcome to correct me or ignore me.

Is it that hard to just accept that y'all are a top teir program that was in the right place at the right time? instead of this is the norm/inevitable and not possible anywhere else

This post was edited on 8/13/16 at 8:50 pm