Might seem like a stupidly obvious take but look at some recent turn arounds at some absolutely abysmal schools. No matter what athletic program you are, at least on the D1/2 level, you’re still a university that at any time can have a super rich donor or alumni.

The attitude that “well, 8-4 is a great year for us” no longer works. National championship mindset is a must for the Dukes, Cals and McNeese States of the world. The same thing that Saban did in 3 years is available to every D1 program regardless of prestige.

Alex Golesh, Kalen DeBoer, Ryan Day etc. until NIL gets the clamps, every hour of practice is critical because the talent pool is razor thin across most every school.

Also speaking of Golesh, god I hate that hire at Arkansas. Gave Alabama a million headaches every time we played South Florida.

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Posted by Pvt Hudson

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Posted on 11/26/25 at 12:08 pm to Vulcan Materials

I would say talent evaluation would be more important.

Shopping for your next team in the portal in the new NIL era and getting value that you can turn into a football team rather than a bunch of individuals that play football.

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Posted by 3down10

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Posted on 11/26/25 at 12:21 pm to Vulcan Materials

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National championship mindset is a must for the Dukes, Cals and McNeese States of the world. The same thing that Saban did in 3 years is available to every D1 program regardless of prestige.

And this is exactly why they won't be shite.

It's the same thing that has basically destroyed Florida football and it's going to destroy every team dumb enough to have this mindset.

Because in reality, the coaches that have been winning national championships are coaches that have been at their schools many years. And in many cases, their fan bases wanted them fired even as they were winning them.

Let's go back and look at the schools that actually win national championship lately.

Ohio St - Ryan Day in his 6th season, fans wanted him fired after losing to Michigan like 3 or 4 times in a row.

Michigan - Harbaugh in his 9th season. Had 44 seniors on that team due to covid. Their fans wanted him fired multiple times over the years.

Georgia - Smart was in this 6th season.

LSU - Coach O was in his 3rd full season, but 4th counting interim. The program was also pretty stable and Coach O was hired internally. Les Miles was at the program for like 10 years bringing stability.

Alabama - Saban won 6 starting in 2009, his 3rd season. A grind of a season where we barely won multiple games, not a dominate team.

Clemson - Dabo was in his 9th season.

Those are the teams that have won national championships in the past 10 years.

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