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The dollar value wasnt a huge hurdle, but no one forced Beamer to do what others knew needed to be done.

We had done more with less, but tgat is a huge reason why we didnt do more.

If I say I want what so and so had earned, then the first step is to learn what they did to earn it and replicate as much as possible. So If I am the AD and buy off on the goal of a national championship then 1) i need to learn what the ADs at FSU, Nebraska, UF, Michigan, etc were doing as they all just won championships. I need to make sure my coach and their staff is doing the same.

Saban didnt as much overhaul the system as much as legitimize it and organize it. Under Don Nehlen, WVU had a scout in the NRV watching high school kids and VT, but they were a volunteer. Saban made that kind of position part of the team and not just some one giving opinions on what to do. Integrated into the machine.

We didnt spend the money to go find out what successful teams were doing. We didnt align the university with the goal, we just put up an empty trophy case with no investment in learning what we needed to do.

It's $9.99 / month.

I'm far from anything remotely resembling a soccer expert, but I feel like the starting defenders are a much bigger risk than the missing depth at midfield and striker.

It was a different era though. Being competitive with top 5 teams was a difference of 6 or 7 figures; not 8 or 9.

Also in those days, money wasn't holding Beamer back. If you gave him an extra million, it just would've been distributed to the coaches already on staff. It didn't occur to Beamer that he could have an army of assistants scouting recruits, another army of assistants scouting future teams, another army self scouting, etc. I think it was 2010 when bud famously went up to Iowa to learn about defending the triple option where he discovered that every position coach had their own assistant?

TLDR; the limiting factor through the meat of the Beamer era wasn't money; it was creativity.

This was before the Saban-ization of college football.

I was in the drumline during an era where stick it was banned and all members of the era where it was allowed had all graduated.

We were absolutely prepared for it and each subsequent group has been too.

We tried that over here and Alumni office said that they can't share private information about students because they are government funded. Neither to us or to other organizations. Meanwhile other universities have alumni apps connecting them with links for donantions.

Alumni office has ALWAYS been a barrier when trying to connect to other alumni. Doing the exact opposite of what it should be doing.

Between that and the quote about having a HC offer at an SEC school, I have a feeling this article was at least edited by, and possibly mostly written by an LLM.

Thanks for your work Joe. The best time to plant a tree was 5 years ago, the next best time is now!

ESPN could be wrong but they said it was confirmed.

Oh, I didn't know it was official. I knew that of the 495 possible combinations, 329 of them had 1D facing 3B. Interesting that they've already eliminated enough of the possibilities to know that it's locked in. That surprises me a bit since there's still several groups with teams that could miss the cut. I mean, there are still 6 groups left to play that have 3rd place teams sitting on 3 or fewer points. Any of those teams could either fall short of the 4 points that seem necessary to guarantee advancing, or get there (with the lone exception of Senegal, who have 0 right now)

I can tell you I ignored a whole bunch of DCwilson's ramblings, especially at the end. And anybody who writes a novel on a subject that I'm not particularly interested in. That's who I ignore.