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[QUOTE="OrangePA, post: 3140769, member: 204"]
Yes, and BYU had Robbie Bosco, Steve Young, Jim McMahon and the Detmer brothers.

Meyer had Alexis Smith, Chris Leak and Tim Tebow, and Petrino had the Brohms and Jackson.

Chip Kelly figured that his system was the answer in Philadelphia. So, he got rid of LeSean McCoy, Desean Jackson and Nick Foles - his three best offensive players.

And he won four games, and was out of football for a year.

I have seen that kind of thing too many times, so I don't get too hung up on systems - though I can appreciate how a certain system can [B]help[/B] a player or group of players flourish.

Ultimately it's the player that makes the system not the other way around - in my opinion.

Accumulating talent, either by just getting really good players, or by identifying sleeper talent is the most important thing a coach can do. As Coach Mac said, by the time he got to SU he realized that it's 85% talent and 15% coaching.

Right now, it seems that we do not have enough talent, or the talent we have can be developed, but right now is young and needs some time to mature.

That cycle is always an issue for programs that cannot select talent. They gather and develop sleeper talent and by the time that talent matures, the program has a brief period of success.

Last year might be a reflection of that phenomenon. I think we saw same thing in 2012 under Marrone.

And I definitely saw that way back in 1975 and in 1977 under Frank Maloney.

We need to get beyond that cycle. And it starts with really good and really consistent recruiting.
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