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  1. Meh....I chalk that up to rosters. Before his first season, Scipio wrote that the two things we could not afford to have happen were injuries to Ash and Espinosa, and so of course both of them immediately were lost forever by game 2. Had they remained healthy, we win eight or nine that year, recruiting would have been even better than it was Malikmas year, and we probably plateau around nine or ten wins because of talent. Which is what we did under Mack, until A) he managed to land VY; and B) he belatedly decided to let VY be VY. 
    It is impossible to prove how bad things would have gotten under Mack. I remember some of the hardcore recruitniks on here kept tabs on the guys Mack was pursuing and/or Strong cut ties with and it was fucking horrendous. Bust after bust after bust. 
    So Strong prevented further decline. It is impossible to show exactly how much Strong did to turn around the talent level, but consider this -- how horrible would we have been without Poona Ford anchoring the D for the last two years of his time on the 40? That guy was not on Mack's radar, or anyone else's really. Charlie does have a good eye for talent. 
    The shit Mack left behind was insurmountable. You can't win with no offensive line, FCS (at best) QBs (or a true frosh like Buechele), and freshman and soph DBs "anchored" by veteran leaders like Dylan Haines. Nobody can. Those problems take years to solve, as we see now at Florida State. 
     

    It not like the stats were improving for CS as the years moved forward....
  2. Oh, I know full well he will be remembered that way, but as bad as he was, given the contexts they both coached in, I think Herman was even worse. Clone the rosters and have them duke it out; it would be a regard fight but I think Strong would go 6-4 in a ten-game schedule, because Charlie's clones would like him more. We tend to overmagnify Strong's gameday blunders and underestimate Herman's, like his almost never successful key fourth-down attempts at conversions, taking points off the board constantly, and more importantly, he'd be playing the Kyle Porter clone while Strong would be playing the Chris Warren one.  

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  3. I can get people being worried, it's just difficult to debate these things when one side is presenting their case through a lens where the expectation is that the coach shows up drunk and naked during pre-game warm-ups 2-3 seasons from now. 

    Lots of mental hopscotch!

  4. Stoops is in his own category. He is not hirable at any P5 school as an on field coach after the picture that came out of him in the hat. You can defend that politics don’t matter, it’s just a hat, cancel culture and players just want to win football games and blah blah blah, but be completely honest yourself. Every coach in the country would use that picture to negative recruit against him. He literally wouldn’t be able to recruit. Sark could win 2 straight national titles and still wouldn’t have enough rope to justify this hire.
    If Sark starts winning 10 games a year consistently and brings in ex coordinators and position coaches as analyst, then he is welcome to start the Saban process of promoting from within. 99.9999% of coaches don’t come with the baggage and history that Stoops did.

    Hopefully most get that. But was looking at a list of untouchables, first. Second how long before we have to deal with the “Coach Rehab” process similar to Saban?

    Untouchable:
    1. Stoops (any of them)
    2. Briles (both of them)
    3. ????

    Hardware:
    1. 1 MNC
    2. 2 B12 CC, 2 playoffs

    If we are a copy/paste of Bama, we will certainly have to face this issue in the future (implies Sark success). Several years from now, I can see Sark trying to bring Stoops back. If Sark tried to pull him as DC, then as a position coach....
  5. Two questions come up from this fiasco in the last 24/48 hours. They are more long term types of questions. First, who is on the “Chode” list of coaches besides Stoops? Second, at what point do we accept “Chodes” like Stoops? Is it after Sark has some hardware and proven he has the Saban process down?

  6. Chance Mock started against OU in 2003, so no, Vince did not have a losing record against them.
    I am not arguing Major was better than Simms.  I am arguing neither were great.  The Major cultists and the "F the Haters Simms is Awesome" Katy Agnor types are equally dumb to me.
    The four biggest games of his career at Texas, Simms choked hard.  And I have as many passing TDs as Simms against OU and 8 less interceptions.

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