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[QUOTE="Shrmdougluvr, post: 3191374, member: 396"]
You attempt to win every game you play.  If you are doing that, then technically, you are playing to win a championship.  But in the BCS/CFP era, there have been 11 national champions, and all of those schools would be considered football factories.  At least five of those schools have suffered significant set backs and are not playing at a national champion calibre level, and I can assure you it is not due to a lack of resources (see Texas for example).

I want a competitive team every year.  Last year is probably close to a best case scenario.  Play the best teams on you schedule tough (ND loss notwithstanding).  Sneak out a win or two over a better opponent.  Handle the peers.  And beat up on the minnows.  I'd expect the program to average around an 8-4 season with outliers in both directions.  I am fine with that.

I can't speak to what Dino thinks/wants, but he's making really good money to be a glorified gym teacher (no offense to gym teachers, they just don't make $3m a year).  I suspect he thinks that we were one possession away from having a strong argument for playing in a CFP playoff game last year, and maybe that can happen again.  Since none of the aforementioned factories have openings, that's as good a route as any for a coach to have a shot at a Natty.  I am also in the camp that he would have left for Auburn, USC, FSU, etc., if they became available to him.
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