re: An incredible stat regarding Alabama Football's last 15 recruiting classes...

That 94 team was pretty good. Wasnt that the year Barker won the Unitas award?

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1992, 2009

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You should try again as well. You forgot 79. And technically the 78 title was won on new years day 1979 against penn state.

Cry bitch

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SidewalkTiger

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You get railed like a $50 hooker everytime you post.... I think you should just call it quits. It's embarrassing at this point

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Alabama's historical success is built on being a blue blood and then being lucky enough to have two GOAT coaches.

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Bama football wasn't born into a status of football royalty.

They created and sustained it. Primarily, the "Game That Changed The South" (1926 Rose Bowl) turned the "tide" for how southern football would be perceived nationally and is where Bama's blue blood status began.

They'd play in 6 Rose Bowls and go 4-1-1 in them before finally the Pac and Big would make it exclusive.

Denny leveraged football success to build a national brand and increase out of state recruiting. Had he not pissed off Wade, he would have likely retired from Bama as well known for success as Bryant and Saban. To be fair, Thomas replaced Wade and he was hardly a slouch. 2 x undefeated seasons, no losing seasons and 3rd best win % all time at Bama as he built off of Wade's base at kept it going. He played for Rockne and coached Bear Bryant. He died relatively young, or he too may have gone on to do much more.

Both he and Wade are HoF coaches like Bryant, Stallings and Saban (one day).

Bottom line, Bama has an established history of football success. The 2 x GOAT CFB HCs left their mark, but it has history beyond those 2. It built and sustained success for a century with only 2 x decades (50s and 00s) with any period of mediocrity to bad football.

Bama will inevitably take a step back post-GOAT. And, another 50s/00s will certainly come at some point. But, the program will sustain success in the long run.

So if the playing field isn't even, what is LSU doing to make things even?

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So if the playing field isn't even, what is LSU doing to make things even?

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I think Saban built the LSU program up enough that it was on an even playing field with Alabama and other elite programs from 2002 or so on, of course then he came back to Alabama and started dominating everyone.

Between Bear and Nick, for over 25 years, Alabama had one magical season. And I must admit it was fun watching them pound down Miami. And Stallings really was a hell of a coach. But besides that they were essentially a nondescript program living off past glory.

In 2000, when Saban arrived LSU was by the estimation of The Football Warehouse, the 14th best program in CFB history. That means lots of 8-3's and 9-2's sprinkled in with a national championship and a great run from 1958-1973 and some SEC titles and bowl games and a wasteland period for the first half of the 90's.

LSU, of course has most-recently won 3 national championships in a 17 year period and played for another. All while being the only team to play Alabama, Florida and Auburn (10 national championships between them in that span) EVERY year. And of course LSU also won championships with 3 consecutive coaches which has never been done in the SEC. I'd say LSU is now up to somewhere around 7-9 as all time great programs now because of that 2 decade run.

When Saban leaves the odds are they return to good but not great status until that find that next generational coach. Those guys don't grow on trees. CFB fans can bluster about history all they want, but coaching is everything, and you have to find that guy and he has to stay and build his own program. Just ask Miami, Florida State, Florida, Texas, USC, Michigan, Penn State etc. The cfb landscape is littered with used-to-be-programs living off the past.

Hopefully going out and finding some more Joe Burrows

God I hope not that guy was ridiculously good lol