http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...ts-mailbag/index.html?eref=sihp&sct=hp_t11_a0 SI has updated their college football program tiers from 2007. LSU now seated in the top tier. I don't agree with all of his placements, but it's still an interesting read.
This writer must be smok'in crack. I do not know were he has been for the last five years. Michigan, Fla State, Penn State, Miami ---King programs? They struggled to have winning seasons, did not even come close to winning their own conferences and basically became run of the mill programs in my mind. It is funny how he thinks that college football fans would not know a Georgia Bulldog helmet......of course they would know his precious Michigan helmet. I would be willing to bet if you put the two helmets on a table and asked a bunch of ladies from the south and north were the helmet was from, the ladies in the south would know Georgia's and the ladies in the north would know Michigan's. In his mind records, bowl participation and championships do not matter that much.
It's not that records etc dont' matter. The point is, it takes a long time to move up or down in this hierarchy. A very long time. These are premier programs, not premier teams or coaches or whatever. Longevity in all aspects is the key here.
Let's say the fore-mentioned programs have not been very good for the last ten years and some for the last 15 to 20 years. How long does it take to lose your longevity? If this is the case how does Tennessee lose there status? They have been just as good if not better than most of the programs, I mentioned, in the last 20 years, and have a pretty good overall history.
