re: 538: The Best College Football Programs Of The 1990s Are All Suddenly Terrible

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The 1995 Cornhuskers may be the best team of all time.

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There is no MAY to it.... Its the GOAT since I have been watching college football which started in 1965............

It's not really a state, we just call it that so we can get to 50.

Need to just go ahead and upgrade by adding Puerto Rico and dropping ohio.

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Alabama, as an example, is a very good high school football state, but it's neck and neck with Michigan as far as the number of NFL players from the state at the moment

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and Illinois actually isn't too far behind

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Neither of these statements is remotely correct.Hell,SC
produces more than either Michigan or Illinois



Illinois,Michigan aND even Ohio are trending downward in their NFL production...obviously due to population shifts but also due to HS FB being somewhat de-emphasizedifferent

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Alabama hasn't been great because they've locked down the state or the surrounding states

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Yea,it is pretty much the reason they've been great especially if you look at Saban's 1st 6 recruiting classes...less than 7 recruits were from NJ,NY or CA (didn't look at the JC signees home state origins so there could be a few more)

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and the SEC was great from 2006 through about 2013 o

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Still put 6 teams in the top 25 in '14...still more than any other conference.If you wanna make the case for '15 and '16 that's fine.

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And a lot of these big Midwestern powers

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Like who? The only one I can think of is Ohio and there
are still multiple G5 programs in the state that occasionally could steal a player or 2.

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Notre Dame still pulls in top 10 or top 15 classes basically every single year with the occasional #1 or #2 overall class (

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You had a #2 10 years ago and #3 in '13

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been another blah conference for at least five or six years

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Once again,if you wanna say that about '15 and '16 you might have a point but "five or six years" is idiotic.

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It really all comes down to coaching in college football. Has always thus been and will always thus be.

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Coaching is absolutely vital but it also takes huge money,recruiting base and a cooperative administration.

Recruiting is more important than ever been because
you might only get a player 3 years and you also have less practice hours for development.CFB is not the same sport it was even 20 years ago