Posted by AlekTX2020 on 11/25/2023 12:49:00 AM (view original):
This is about MSU and schools. Not about the coaches prestige. Read the title. Moron. Nobody is going to routinely beat the top 4 programs/coaches. Get a grip. Better yet stfu and schedule me. You’re a pathetic coach on here who stacks his roster and boast about his titles. It shows how weak you are.
So, in the real world, is anybody gonna give a second thought if you beat Nebraska right now? Florida? They're elites on this game. Georgia is not. But you beat them and you've done something. But even doing so today would not make Georgia Tech an elite, just 7-5. A lot more goes into it. You obviously don't get it.
Oregon in the real world is a good case study on elite v non-elite. Right now they are 11-1 and will be ranked in the top 5-6 next week with a chance at the playoff if they beat Washington. They are not elite right now. They can maybe be by making the playoff, certainly by winning it. I would have considered them an elite '09-'14 but not the past few years. Very good program just not elite at the moment though close.
My Mountaineers won 70 games in 7 seasons from '05-'11 and 3 BCS Bowls. They were very good but not an elite.
USC hasn't been a true elite since Pete Carroll left. Texas the same since about '09, though having a good season this year. Also Florida. Miami since '03. Nebraska since '01. Tennessee maybe the same. Notre Dame you could
maybe give them '17-'21 but other than that not since Holtz. Michigan had a long gap till the past 3 seasons, they're kind of back as an elite. Penn St is similar to Notre Dame. Lots of great seasons, some together, but never really top tier. LSU is not quite elite at the moment, but they have been large chunks of this century. Florida St has not been elite since '16 but they're trying to work their way back if they have another season or two close to this one.
Oklahoma could be considered elite as they've dominated the Big 12 largely and been top 10 alot, though not at the same levels as Alabama and Ohio St currently. That's the 14. Maybe 2 premium elites, with OU, Michigan, and LSU having claims but not at the level of the top 2. Outside of that, Clemson and Georgia can make a claim, though Clemson needs to start rebounding soon. Possibly Oregon.
So I'd only consider 5-6 teams truly currently elite in the real world, despite those other 'elites' still being able to recruit off past reputation, the way GD actually kind of hits the mark on, they just miss on other schools being able to get up there for stretches. Current elites are Georgia, Alabama, Ohio St, Michigan, Clemson, Oklahoma. If your MSU team is an elite, then probably 15-20 schools could make a claim currently. Actually, the 12 team playoff will be very good at determining real world elites. Making the playoffs at least half the time and winning at least some of those games would be a good barometer. In other words, being a quarterfinalist multiple times in a 5 year span should be the floor.