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Message: [QUOTE="dinosaurbbq, post: 908677, member: 1333"] Alsacs -- We shall see. I am surprised that so many people have such a short memory. The SEC won't always be the best conference, just like it hasn't always been the best conference. The SEC began this period of relative dominance in 2006, 7 years ago. I understand 6 BCS titles in a row is a pretty significant feat, but looking at the conferences long term, there is no reason to believe the SEC will remain the best football conference in perpetuity. From 2002-2005 the ACC was the best conference. Before that is was the Big 10. I think what makes one conference better than another is ultimately coaches, who lead the individual teams to victory and recruit talent to keep the program up top. I think the Big 12 has very good coaches that can sell their programs and will keep the Big 12 in the top 2-3 conferences year to year. I personally think Charlie Strong at Texas will be a huge power and perennial national contender. Stoops at Oklahoma is perennial top 5-10. Art Briles at Baylor is an incredible coach. Gundy at Oklahoma State has them in the top 10-15 now every year. Patterson at TCU is a great coach and Kingsbury at Texas Tech is thought to be a wunderkind. Holgorsen is a great offensive coordinator but poor head coach and as I've said many times already, I believe Rich Rodriguez will be back at WVU next year and will absolutely kill it and raise that program back up to where it was before, a top 10 -15 year in and out. Bill Snyder at Kansas State is a very good coach, but recruiting will fall off there and that team will fall. Charlie Weiss at Kansas is a horrible head coach. Paul Rhoads at Iowa State can't possibly elevate that program due to lack of history and geography. There are a lot less bad or underachieving teams/coaches by virtue of the Big 12 only having 10 programs. ACC coaches are very strong up top and through the middle. Jimbo Fisher has that program back at the top and they'll be there for a long time. Dabo is doing great things at Clemson with Chad Morris a huge part of that. I love this staff at SU right now and think we are a 9-10 win team for a decade starting in the next year or two. Al Golden at Miami is a very good coach and its a short matter of time before Miami is back to a perennial contender. Petrino at Louisville is a great coach. Fedora at UNC is doing well. Beemer at Va Tech is about done and it'll be interesting to see who they get to take over the reigns. Chryst at Pitt is at least a stabilizing force after the mess of coaches they've gone through. Johnson at Ga Tech sucks, but will win most games against evenly matched teams due to the otherwise unseen scheme. Addazio is smart enough to ride out his assets like Williams at RB this year. Cutliffe at Duke is gonna be a once in a great while decent team. Doeren isn't impressing anyone at NC State. Neither is Clawson at Wake or London at UVA. SEC has very good coaches at the top and very good programs at the top, but once you get beyond and below them, the coaches and the programs aren't any better than any other conference. Gus Malzahn proved he was the best coach on the field in all of his team's games this year. Saban is an incredible coach. Les Miles is a very good coach who gets his players to play as hard as they can for him. Franklin is gone from Vandy and they'll fall back down to non-competitive. Hugh Freeze can recruit but we'll see if he can coach them up and lead a great team. He's a long ways off right now from that. Kevin Sumlin is a great unknown right now and I'd have to see him without Manziel to see what he can do over time. Pinkel is doing great things at Mizzou but lets see him do it over several years. The Old Ball Coach at South Carolina has lost his way with kids. I don't think Clowney would have pulled the same crap at Alambama or at LSU because I think those coaches would have filled him with fire to play whereas Spurrier didn't. Richt dealt with injuries this year, but has been a perennial underachiever. Stoops at Kentucky and Bielema at Arkansas are garbage. Muschamp is an abusive wildman and his players do not support him. Dan Mullen at Miss. St. sucks. Butch Jones at Tenn. is a good coach with lesser talent, but lets see if he can recruit long-term and coach a top flight team. I don't think he can at Tennessee. Just about everything in this world ebbs and flows. The SEC will sink back down. Its been a historic run, but nothing lasts forever and there is no reason it should. Ranking of conferences 2005 to present: [url]http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/10/18/4851744/pac-12-sec-best-conference[/url] Ranking 2000 - : [url]http://www.behindthesteelcurtain.com/2008/8/26/597909/what-s-the-best-college-fo[/url] [/QUOTE]

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