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[QUOTE="Crusty, post: 1240993, member: 2265"]
A very interesting question is whether it is easier to take a really terrible program to average or to take an average program to say, the top 25. Personally, I think it is the former. It seems to me it gets harder and harder to improve the better you get. When you are at the bottom it doesn't take much to improve the talent because the pool of players better than yours is so large. There is a lot of low hanging fruit. As you near the top the talent thins out a lot and the competition for it gets much more intense.

A great number of formerly top programs face this challenge. For some, it used to be easy as they had a great deal of talent in their 600 mile recruiting radius and now that talent is thinned out and the competition for it has increased as well. For some schools the increase in cost has also reduced the huge number of walk-ons to a trickle.

One of the objectives of the P5 is to monopolize the talent pool so as to create an insurmountable product quality gap, which in turn will create pricing power.

Why is it that Marrone has a far better reason? He had a far better QB who was not injured. I just don't get it why injuries explain one coach's season but not another, especially when the injuries were more widespread for one.

Personally, I gave Marrone a pass not only for that season but for the first four games of 2012 as well.
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