He has vastly more experience than Lanning, who was probably the top candidate. Plus has beaten him 3 times in a row.

And recruiting rankings are a means to an end. They are not the end. The only thing that matters is on-field performance.

You don't win awards for recruiting rankings. He's obviously recruited, and developed, well enough for success on the field.

And you're complaining that he's not a good recruiter, while also saying his success should be downplayed because he had a great QB - that he recruited and developed (at Indiana, where he was OC, and then at Washington when he transferred)

You can't have it both ways.

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Posted by lsufball19

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Posted on 1/11/24 at 1:24 pm to Bjorn Cyborg

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You can't have it both ways.

Can't have what both ways? So he recruited a 3 star guy that was dropped by Tennessee after committing and that makes him a good recruiter because he turned out to be good?

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You don't win awards for recruiting rankings. He's obviously recruited, and developed, well enough for success on the field.

If you think he can fail to recruit well in the SEC and sustain success at the level Alabama will expect, you are certainly entitled to that opinion.

It's a completely different world when you are coaching a program like that and in a conference like this, but you already knew that. You cannot consistently win in this conference without elite recruiting.

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He has vastly more experience than Lanning, who was probably the top candidate.

And I thought Lanning was a reach too. The only thing he had going for him was experience in this conference at both Alabama and Georgia. Without that, I don't think he even gets a phone call from Alabama

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