NyAggie said:
PascalsWager said:
ABATTBQ11 said:
rgag12 said:
Alabama's dynasty will end 2-3 years after Saban is gone and the players that had 2+ years under saban are gone.
Then it will be a situation like Ryan Day at OSU. They will still be better than everyone else 70% of the time instead of 90% of the time.
Doubtful. Bama was an also ran for a long time like Michigan is now until Saban came along. When he's gone, they return to an also ran without another once in a lifetime coach.
I would go further and say they were maybe 1 or 2 degrees worse than Michigan is now. Harbaugh is getting Michigan to 10 wins in half the seasons. Bama had as many 4 win seasons as 10 win seasons for the decade before Saban.
They'll be back to merely above average program soon enough.
Sounds like wishful thinking
Bama fanbase is so used to winning championships that they will not tolerate meciocity for any length of time
Mrgsts why they went out and hired saban
And if the guy after saban starts to fail they will throw the brinks truck at whoever they think will be the next saban
That program will always have pull among coaches and recruits
Said every former blue blood program ever.
How many title games have Nebraska, USC, Michigan, Penn State, Miami, Notre Dame, the real UT, etc. played for in the last 25 years? Not that many.
How many bad or mediocre seasons have they had? All of those teams were dominating at some point in the last 40 years where they looked unstoppable.
The pendulum swings pretty far now even for some of the most storied programs - and they've all endured some pretty bad stretches of mediocrity. Hell look at the sips right now. No one predicted their demise 10 years ago.
You never know what events will conspire to turn fortunes. Hell, in 1998 none of us saw that a young exciting coach at OU and a slick talking buttertoothed snake oil salesman were going to ride waves to their own titles and leave our program in the gutter. But it happened.