(02-04-2018 02:39 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(02-04-2018 02:27 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(02-04-2018 02:11 PM)bullet Wrote:  There are no sleeping giants in football. Other than the Florida schools, the teams at the top are the same teams you would see in the late 60s and early 70s.

Basketball where you only use 7-8 players is different.

Exactly. You have to reserve the term "Giant" for a team that has a chance to be a dominant force at the top level of football.

Probably the last prescient example of that was Bear Bryant's circa-1970 comment to the effect that if "they ever got their act together" down in Gainesville, Florida could be a dominant team.

There's nothing like that out there now.

using that metric...I'll throw out a program that has more resources than anyone else, but just hasn't been able to figure out how to apply them.....

Texas A&M

Yes but, TAMU is clearly a major player in the college football world. In the past 20 years, they've played in 4 Cotton Bowls and a Sugar Bowl. They are regularly ranked in the top 25, etc.

Given their resources, they are underachievers, sure. But i wouldn't call them "sleeping", which IMO implies a moribund program that is pretty much nowhere right now.

So shoot me for nit-picking all of this, LOL.