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If anyone thought Strong could turn Texas around before even getting his own recruiting class in there, they were stupid. Strong has to work hard on changing the culture of Texas, which is what Mack fucked up. Even if Strong wasn't the guy for the job, no way Saban comes in and makes them a winner his first year either without massive cheating.
UT has finished well in recruiting over the years. Mack had his pick of around 400 kids every year, like I said, they were the big dog. Strongs winning % is above 69, as a HC. Like I said, UT has talent, lots of it. Mack got the 4 and 5 star players in the state, got Shiro Davis from La. For years, Mack signed some of the best in the state. An why would you say saban would have to cheat, it's not like he's doing this now at ba....er, wait, nevermind.
You can't really fault Michigan State for going out to Oregon and losing. They fought hard. Them and Wisconsin, and Iowa are your best teams in the conference but the Wisconsin loss to LSU, the MSU loss to Oregon, the Michigan rout by Notre Dame, and the Ohio State loss to VA Tech really hurt that conference's chances to get a team in at the end. That's supposedly your big boys and they all got beat by other conferences upper echelon.