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Originally Posted by lawgator1  Thanks, but you don't count since it is well-established that we have the same sentiments about the whole Fulmer situation.
Man, I just had a thought that made me shiver.
What if Fulmer decides to pull a Paterno/Bowden routine and stay on board at UT until he's in his seventies? |
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Originally Posted by lawgator1 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. |
couple of things......FSU only won 2 titles in the 90's...Nebraska won 2 titles in the nineties...Miami won 1....or 2?
anyway....USC has won 2 this decade...though one is a split....
USC if they keep up what they are doing, will compare favorably with FSU of the nineties for consistency at the top.....the number pac 10 titles may rival the numver ACC titles as well as top 10 finishes.....
but, as for this decade, the dominating stories should be:
1. USC 2. the SEC 3. OSU and OK--OK has been very impressive, but they fall in to the same category as OSU...both have one title, both have played for others...both have been embarrassed in title games....but in the end, both have been pretty darn consistent this decade....at the top of their respective conferences, always around the top 10 etc....
Point being.....OK, OSU, USC have all been very consistent at the top, in BCS bowl games, and won titles this decade.....the SEC gets top billing as well, because as a conf. we have 3 titles this decade......