re: Who are the Sleeping Giants of CFB?

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'm talking programs that could become legit NC contenders most years. All it would take is the right coach to see the potential and take advantage of it like Saban to LSU or Spurrier to Florida.

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LSU

NC State. They seem to care about football more than UNC.

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-Ole Miss- would hate this one also but I see the potential.

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What potential? You mean the cheating that will bring them down?


UCLA should be better than what they have been. They wasted the USC scholarship years.

Somewhat agree, but UVA still gets its fair share of talent. They should be better than they are.

I'll throw one out there: Cal. They should be a powerhouse in both football and basketball, but they're one of the worst-run athletic programs in college sports.

They don't have the compunctions about taking academically risky kids, either; they're more Michigan or UNC than they are UVA in that sense. That program has every conceivable advantage you could ever want, but they just suck at running competent football and basketball programs.

i dont get why people are acting like UT is a sleeping giant

theyve had 3 rough seasons, so the frick what. they ARE a giant

Yea I don't see much potential for ole miss without cheating. It's a talent rich state but they get cherry picked by the big boys and have to split the leftovers with msu. Neither school is enough of a draw to lock up the state without cheating.

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I'm talking within the next 5 -10 years.

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If the get significant penalties like USC did or worse it will take every bit of 5 years for then to come back. Couple that with them not being a historic program like a USC and I don't see them being what they have been for some time.

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Yea I don't see much potential for ole miss without cheating. It's a talent rich state but they get cherry picked by the big boys and have to split the leftovers with msu. Neither school is enough of a draw to lock up the state.

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I don't think Ole Miss would ever make the jump but I'm just trying to so who has the best chance. I maybe should have put Arkansas over them. But it's not impossible for Ole Miss. They have a little bit if history and if they could sharpen up their cheating skills then it could happen.

To be fair to Minnesota, they were a national powerhouse for quite a long time, though they haven't been there in about fifty years.

They probably have too many fundamental limitations at this point to be anything notable. They're a damn site far away from the nearest recruiting territory of note (Chicagoland area - unlike Wisconsin which is just a few hours away and a big draw for Chicago kids as is), and they don't have any real pull.

The Indiana schools (IU and Purdue) should probably be better than they are. Indiana is actually a decent high school football state, and they're right next door to a great high school football recruiting area (Ohio) and two pretty damn good recruiting areas (Chicagoland and Michigan). They should be decently solid programs.

I guess if ole miss gets sanctioned back to the dark ages, miss state could become a power by locking up the state. I still think theres too much competition in the west and always will be. The systems set up for a handful of sec teams to succeed and the miss schools aren't in that number. It'd take a great recruiter to take them to the top.