Refer to my post above and tell me one team who has had better recruiting in the last 5 years than those 2 teams. College football is 95% recruiting, just as simple as that. Texas and USC are nowhere near those two teams in recruiting and in the years that they were they did well and won NCs.

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Posted by BRUNNIN4

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Posted on 11/12/13 at 2:03 am to CalTiger53

Go back a few years and look at the class rankings for USC from about 08-10 and tell me what those teams won. Coaching is very important, you just discounted a good example in support of this point in Stanford. If you just look at a larger sample than this year you'll see that ND, Oregon, Stanford, and Ok St have all made or come very close to making National Championship games without having several elite classes in a row. 95% is just silly, I would say more like 60-70%. Just look at LSU, our offensive coaching was terrible and prevented us from winning numerous games from 08-12.

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Posted by Geauxgurt

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Posted on 11/12/13 at 2:15 am to CalTiger53

Recruiting is definitely a major reason that teams like Bama and FSU are where they are this season. It's also the reason LSU went 13-1 in 2011 with LSU's 2009 recruiting class a huge part of that season.

The advantage those teams (Bama and FSU) have had isn't a lack of attrition, but the fact that they continued to put up top 10 and specifically top 3-6 classes to account for the annual losses.

LSU's recruiting simply hasn't been even close to that level. It's averaged 8th and only had 1 top 5 class in the last 6 years.

That's been one of the major issues at LSU. Their coaching is great with great talent and slightly average to mediocre when they don't have great talent.

In the end, Les isn't keeping up with Bama because his recruiting isn't good enough to account for the coaching talent differences. He's a good coach, but not as good as LSU needs to stay an elite program.

Coaching is critical, no matter what people think. Talent can definitely hide poor coaching, but championships are more often than not won with great coaching and no where is it more evident than Auburn this season where coaching is helping lift a team with less depth and talent to play some pretty darn solid ball and the huge difference between their 2010 and 2012 team.

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