jmcc

You could but you’d become less so over time because it would hurt recruiting. If you had Alabama/Georgia levels or even Auburn, you could win championships. In fact, I think you could win chips with even 4th/5th/6th in conference recruiting. However, you’d be 10/11/12th running this system.

The problem is that no top defensive recruit wants to spend their time in practice against cut blocks. No wide receivers period will want to come. And elite offensive guys don’t want to play in systems where they basically don’t learn to pass block, or run no passing offense at all.

Talent is a massive component of winning titles and you can’t get title talent running the triple option.

The polls were off in 2016 but not by a crazy amount compared to other elections. They basically missed just enough in the battleground states which is terrible for calling the election. I think 538 had trump as a 35% dog to win which to me isn’t crazy. He lost the popular vote and squeeked it out in the electoral college. That’s how a dog should win a presidential election.

Presumably though, the nfl doesn’t care about the intricacies of the electoral college and battleground states. They just care about viewership/money and a viewer/dollar from California is worth exactly as much as one from Michigan. Or maybe they just care what sponsors think period and it’s even more simple than that.

This is all theoretical. I don’t know what exactly polls are saying on this issue but if they are saying there is heavy support for what’s going on... I’d guess they are pretty close.

Of course, that can also change over time. And if does, don’t worry the nfl will run right back to the where the money is like everyone else.