i hope the rest of the college football world is ready for what appears to be a two headed monster that is taking over! consider this. 1. lsu is going to bee the best team in the country this year, we FINALLY.....have a qb who can really play the position well! 2. Alabama is a monster program that just keeps coming! i tell you with that oline they have and the skill players developing around aj mcarron the tide offense is gonna be hell on wheels. the defense? well who are we kidding? theyre loaded with 5 star talent and i dont see very much drop off if any under nick saban and kirby smart. usc is a feel good team that lost a big time game to stanford AT HOME LAST YEAR! so the idea of usc being "BACK" with the reductions of players by the ncaa and the home loss to stanford last year i really dont think usc or anyone else in the pac 12 will match these two teams! florida state ou? cmon! all ive seen out of these 2 is a lot of high rankings and hot air! ou ill give the best shot because of mike stoops being back but still a big if! anyway thats my 2 cents.
Though I agree, Orgeron creates success in a program. I don't know what he's like, but the man can recruit like NO other. Such ashame to waste it on that program and Kiffin. Will always hate the younger Kiffin.
I haven't been to Oxford in a few years, but I think Col. Reb is still crying. Saying he "can recruit like no other" is giving him far, far too much credit. I might put him on the same level as Rodney Garner in Athens.
USC still has the most prestige on the west coast. That's why kids go there. Like LSU, USC has had generations of kids growing up dreaming of playing for them. Kiffen and Orgeron aren't recruiting those kids as much as the USC mystique is. By the way, LSU really dodged a huge bullet when Orgeron snubbed Miles and LSU at the last minute....whew !!!
I'm going to use Tuscaloosa as an example here because of its geographic location. How many teams, that can say they can compete for the BCSNC, are within 500 miles? If we take the past 12 years and use a four team playoff model, we can include Athens, Gainesville, Knoxville, Baton Rouge, and who else? Now, given that parameter, how many teams within 500 miles from USC can claim the same? Before you say UCLA, consider they've had one season in this century with double-digit wins: 10-2 in 2005. (FWIW, the 2005 season is one of four, in the last 20 years, we wouldn't have seen the SEC in the four team playoff: LSU and Bama finished 8th and 9th respectively.) Stanford would qualify in some football fans' eyes. When you add in the fact that California is so fertile for D1 talent it really leaves a kid no other choice unless he decides to leave the state. And then, it's what, 800-850 miles to Eugene? Is their mystique amplified by the fact there really isn't another option if a kid wants to win a ring?
