re: Teddy Lehman Telling Truth about SEC

Lehman was using the BLue Chip ratio:

UGA
Bama
A&M
OU

So only these schools have more talent. Based on that.

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Never has Texsa and yet the SEC writers are saying 11-1 why? LMAO.

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Do everyone a favor and copy the person's quotes. Are you asking me why the writers have the shorthorns at 11-1?

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As someone who grew up in the SWC, I’ve been there. The SEC is just different. It’s not even really about the best teams in the conference, even the bad teams are nationally competitive and you get no breaks. OU and Texas will find out soon enough, it’s like playing a bowl game matchup every week. The margin for victory is so damn small in this conference. It’s incredible really

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Yet the same school wins most of the conference trophies, not arkansas. Maybe you just suck.

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. This is the current ranking. It justifies Lehman's rant

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But it doesn't really.

The issue for OU in the Big 12 so far for Venables hasn't been talent. The only team with a similar or higher level of talent in the Big 12 was Texas. TCU was around 19th in the talent composite. The next team was Texas Tech at 40th.

Despite that and despite beating Texas last year, OU lost to teams outside of the top 40 in total talent... three times last year.

OU has had a huge talent edge in the Big 12... and has been pretty meh despite that fact.

That doesn't bode well for going into a more talent rich conference. Quite the opposite. It shows that Venables has thus far been proven to be a coach who often has his team performing poorly against less talented teams... and those teams who have less talent than OU that he'll face going forward are going to be MUCH more talented overall.

That bears out the expectations of OU doing poorly this year.

In the SEC everyone other than Vandy is ahead of Texas Tech in talent (top 40). Vandy is 58th.

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and Kirby lost to Vandy

And for years was the Big Game loser. Arkansas lost to north texas.

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Kirby lost to Vandy in his first year as a head coach by 1 point.
He also lost to GT (a 9-win team) by 1 point.
He also lost to Tennessee by 3 points on a hail mary.

Kirby did in fact need to learn how to win close games.

He did so. Since his first year he's made the playoff 3 times, going 5-1 in those playoff games, only losing to the #1 team in overtime (that was in his second year).

He's only lost one game after his first year to an unranked team, that being a 3 point loss to SEC in double OT on a missed short FG by a kicker good enough to play in the NFL.

Besides that the other 10 losses in the last 7 seasons were to:

#1 team in the final rankings (three times)
#2 (twice)
#5
#6
#9
#10
#13

Before you say "oh, see, he lost big games!", he's got wins against teams who finished in the following final rankings:

#2 (twice)
#3 (twice)
#4
#6 (three times)
#7
#8 (twice)
#9
#10
#11
#12 (twice)
#13
#14
#15
#16
#17
#18
#19
#20
#21
#23

#1 is missing because when you beat the #1 team they rarely end up #1 afterwards. It's kind of interesting listing them out how Smart is only missing #1, #5, #22, #24 and #25 to have wins over every single spot in the top 25 based on the end of year results. But yeah, he never won any big games right? Because for it to be a big game, UGA would have to lose... am I right?

In case you don't want to add it up, that means Smart is 26-10 against ranked teams in the last 7 seasons.

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Kirby lost to Vandy in his first year as a head coach by 1 point.
He also lost to GT (a 9-win team) by 1 point.
He also lost to Tennessee by 3 points on a hail mary.

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VAST talent difference, but lost. It happens. And still is Saban's whipping boy (1-5 lol).

I don't know whether Venables will win titles, unlike you I'm not jesus. I don't know the future.

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Soonerboomer1

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Should you be starting threads?

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He was talking about programs under CURRENT coaching staffs.

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Current coaching staff of UGA/LSU/UT/OM/Bama are all considerably more accomplished than Oklahoma’s

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You did cherry-pick 1 year of recruiting.That is not how you do this. Lehman was talking blue chip ratio which consists of all players (minus current NIL transfers). This is the current ranking. It justifies Lehman's rant.


UGA
Bama
A&M
OU

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on3 has lsu's average recruiting ranking for the last four classes at 6.75. texas is 7 and ou is 7.5. they have all basically recruited at the same level

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Brian Kelly is a more proven head coach than Brent Venables to be frank...

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Any championship rings at LSU? No. That's the point.