(02-02-2018 11:15 AM)eaglewraith Wrote:  

(02-01-2018 11:15 PM)Seminowl Wrote:  

(02-01-2018 06:56 PM)AppManDG Wrote:  

(02-01-2018 01:26 PM)Saint3333 Wrote:  

(02-01-2018 11:16 AM)JCGSU Wrote:  27. I found an outlier that proves the whole system is flawed, and I've ignored the other 99% of that disproves my point.

and there it is...

Wins on the field prove all other data irrelevant. You can celebrate your title in February, we enjoy celebrating ours during the football season.

You play to win the game.

I'll take our low 3 star and 2 star players and the conference championships and bowl wins they produce over some arbitrary "win" in recruiting rankings.

Good recruits with bad coaching means absolutely nothing. Now a semi competent coach, with good recruits can mean the world. Saban isn’t the best coach but he absolutely is the best recruiter.

To your first part, see: Tyson Summers.

As for the Saban part, I think the more accurate way to put it is that Saban isn't the best "technical" coach from what most have said(although he is VERY sharp), but he is the best HEAD coach in terms of the details he pays to the entire program and what it needs in addition to recruiting.

The guy knows how to put the pieces together to form a team that just wins. That's what you want your head coach to do. By that measure I'd say it could be argued he's the best college football coach ever.

He's also probably the best in putting staffs together. He's replaced a number of assistants during this period as well and always appears to have new coaches that fit very well into what they want to get accomplished.