JacketFan137
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yeah it’s all pieces of the pie. can’t lack in any of the areas if you want to build a sound team. plenty of bad coaches have wasted far superior talent relative to their competition at different levels of college football see collins at tech, richt at uga, everybody that has coached at miami the last 20 years.Not disagreeing (well not completely) but this needs perspective.
I think the primary needs are system / process / culture (not even remotely talking about formations or run pass percentage; don’t take it there) accountability, development, leadership and continuity (this one is very under appreciated in college football, IMO). That is the foundation that gets you 75%-80% of the way and that comes from top down.
The “over the hump” is when you start getting and retaining that talent without sacrificing any of the aforementioned basic attributes of your program. It’s great to recruit, but it doesn’t start there. Recruiting takes you from 7-8 wins to double digit wins. It gives you depth to avoid the “let down” because let’s face it, college kids won’t be perfect every Saturday no matter how talented they are. Talent with no purpose and poor leadership is worthless. It is certainly part of the formula, but not the first piece and not the biggest part
that being said at this point there is a minimum level of athleticism to compete with some teams. you have to get there with good recruiting or a fantastic S&C program and development. if you don’t have the athletes to play with clemson and uga/any other real top 10 team it’s just gonna be a long night and no coaching, scheme, culture or whatever is gonna be able to overcome that