re: University of Tennessee, Miami, & Nebraska

I will be happy if Miami has nothing but 7-8 win seasons from here t eternity.

That program is cursed with the trash that you find in the sport. And it is always to the extreme. Some of it may be because of the region.

But they could be back to the top within a couple years. A good coach that wants nothing but to win big and go to a bigger program/NFL within 4 years can do that. Golden will never win big there because he has been there too long. Miami football is like the real estate in the city, rises fast and falls hard. Never consistent.

But to answer your question I think Miami can be the first to come back to elite level.

Tennessee has atlanta/Deep South/Charlotte/Va within a decent drive. Can round up talent with a good recruiter. Great facilities too. If they have one year where they beat Bama and florida then their recruiting can go into overdrive.

Nebraska they are way too remote and their glory years are Lon gone.

Every team in college football is just a handful of the right players away from being elite for a few years. Tennessee is best equipped to return to prominence consistently.

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I think Nebraska is actually quite close to returning to be a perennial top 10 or top 15 team year in, year out.

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there is a huge difference in being a perennial top 10/15 team and going back to what they were in the 90s(and 80s). They were a perennial top 3 team in the 90s, and in all honesty their 1995 team was one of the most dominant teams in the history of all team sports. I just don't see those days coming back, and its a shame, because college football would be even better right now with a nebraska program filled with some big arse farm boys playing smash mouth football going toe to toe with alabama.

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I'm not buying the notion that Nebraska is DOA right now.

Even with average coaching they were able to have 9-10 wins a year and were just outside of the top 10 and a win or 2 away from being in the title race.

In 2009 Nebraska was :01 away (and arguably screwed over) from defeating Texas which made the BCS title game.

I think Nebraska is actually quite close to returning to be a perennial top 10 or top 15 team year in, year out

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All we really need here is a good coach who can be successful in big games, something that Bo was never able to do as HC. I really hope that Mike Reilly can do it, but I have my doubts and I hate uncertainty.

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Who wants to live in fricking Nebraska?.

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Warren Buffett.