FC: CJF on Auburn's wish list?

[HappyValley1]

Outside of folks here, I don’t know one alum personally who likes him as coach. When I meet Penn Staters, they almost always mention that they don’t think he’s a good coach. This started about three to four years ago (when I would defend Franklin).

There is a lot of dumb people in the PSU fan base.

 

[PSUFTG]

Yeah. I was maybe a bit surprised at just how little things had changed in that regard. I didn't expect anything dramatic, but thought there might have been some trend one way or the other - but this seems to be a "the more things change..." type of deal.

 

[Moogy]

In the 1980s:
The Top 10 Teams of the decade won 73% or more of their games (2 teams won 80% or more)

In the 1990s:
The Top 10 Teams won 75% or more of their games (5 teams won 80% or more)

In the 2000s:
The Top 10 Teams won 73% or more of their games (4 teams won 80% or more)

In the 2010s:
The Top 10 Teams won 73% or more of their games (5 teams won 80% or more)

It would be abundantly difficult to argue that "talent" has been any more, or any less, dispersed from any one decade to the other - or that the dominant teams of any of those eras were any more or less dominant than those of any other era.
The Big Dogs may change, but the margin between Big and Little Dog remains the same.


Win percentage computation form (stassen.com)

He didn't talk about the top 10 teams of the decade, though. He specifically mentioned 2 programs - OSU and Bama. Over the last 10 years (not including this year, in which they're currently undefeated), OSU was 117-13, for a .900 Win%. Bama was .908. Nebraska (the top program) was .837 in the 80s, with Miami next at .831. And he talked about that in regard to how it affected PSU ... that, in the 80s, we rarely played a wagon. Now, we're guaranteed to play one every year.