re: Elite Recruiting and why this argument bugs me.

Georgia is showing everybody if you can match Bama’s talent then they are beatable. Hopefully we can get our recruiting back to where it was with Meyer.

Citadel was tied at half.

Both Alabama and Georgia are extremely beatable, like that one time when LSU (you might have heard of them) crushed Georgia.

I trust Mullen with 4*s, if you guys need 5*s and are going to cry about it every off-season you're going to be very disappointed.

We'll get there, but I'm fine with where we are.

Just said that on Twitter.

These types of defenses cannot cover Mullen QBs and Mullen knows how to work a mobile QB who can also pass it.

crushing miami and fsu next year will help matters

Our new croot already crootin a local 5 star for us

If Dan Mullen can get top 12 classes, he will win a championship. He does not need 5 or better. It would be nice, but Dan, the complete opposite of McElwain, has shown that his teams do get better, and that they don't quit.

And yes, bitching about top 5 classes like Dan Mullen is supposed to fix a 10 year problem in 10 months is absolutely stupid. He doesn't need top 5 recruiting classes, he just needs to get players who actually fit his model and he's already well on his way to doing that.

So who is the last 2 teams to win national championships with out averaging top 5 or even top 10 classes ? I am not crying about our recruiting now because Mullen has some rebuilding to . But if we want to win national championships we have to recruit a lot better. Bama and Georgia seem to be top 5 every year. Do you even watch Bama , Georgia and Clemson play ?

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So who is the last 2 teams to win national championships

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Who are the last two teams to win national championships not named Alabama?

One is a team that did not recruit at an elite level, the other is a team that did.

So if you take out the anomaly, the parity is there.

It's not about beating elite recruiting teams -- it's about beating Alabama and by extension Georgia. We literally hit every single thing we needed for our Head Coach to do that.

1. Spread offense.

Teams that have beaten Alabama in the last 7 years:

Ole Miss (x2, not an elite recruiting team)
Auburn (x2, not an elite recruiting team)
A&M (not an elite recruiting team)
Oklahoma (not an elite recruiting team at the time)
Ohio State (an elite recruiting team)
Clemson (had one top ten class leading up to their championship -- the same year)

Alabama 100% wins the championships they do because of a talent disparity but by a large margin the coaching.

Coaching lost Georgia the game today -- and he had more 5-star recruits than Saban did. Their teams are almost neck and neck.

2. A coach who is good with X's and O's.

See above. I will take A+ Gameday Coach over B- with elite recruits.

3. A coach with the ability to develop championship level Quarterbacks.

Yep. Definitely have this one. It's literally only a matter of time.

Spread offense with a great QB who is good at playcalling = more important than top 5 classes.

You asked who were the two last teams to do it: Auburn and Clemson, neither were recruiting at an elite level and both won National Championships with really good DUAL THREAT quarterbacks.

You guys want to be Georgia because of how shiny their recruits are, go be Georgia.

All them cruits and nothin' to show for it.

Cats came to play! Lol

Good does not mean elite, I think what set me off is this idea that you absolutely, 100% need top 5 classes.

If Clemson wins this next National Championship, it would mean that a team without elite recruits has won it twice in CFP.

Even if Clemson just gets to the Championship game, it still kind of throws water on the argument that you need elite talent to win it all. Just being represented, for me, would be enough in the next three years.

1. I'm not saying we shouldn't recruit elite, I'm saying that we need to be patient.

2. I'm also not saying stars don't matter, obviously they matter, but there are many schools who make up for this with above average coaching.

3. If Mullen can secure 12 - 8 ranked classes, I have no doubt we will be exactly where we need to be. We're going to a NY6 bowl after going 4 - 7...

And we did it with a QB like Philip Hotdogs. Just imagine, slayer. Lend me your ear.

Imagine what it'll be like to have a dual-threat QB again with a hard-nosed defense who will have depth -- blue chip depth for the next few years.

tl;dr

These wonky little bitch podcasts who get their clicks by selling 'chicken little' outlooks and getting fans riled up need to find something new to complain about.