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Originally Posted by VolDad  No disagreement from me.  |
No program these days can have the kind of long-term success that Nebraska, Miami, and FSU had in the 80's and early 90's. I suppose an argument could be made that USC is doing something special in the 00's, but they haven't been in the title game for a couple of years and it just doesn't feel like they are sustaining it right now.
The advent of the BCS changes things, IMO. The measuring stick in the past was strictly national championships. But, since the BCS games pay out so huge now, it seems to me that if a school can appear in the BCS games for, say, 6-7 years in a given 10 year period, you would have to put them at that level.
I just don't see that happening and almost surely not for an SEC school.
Footnote: If you get to big games but then repeatedly get beat, it doesn't count. See e.g. tOSU. You've got to win some of those 6 or 7 BCS appearances.