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We should also acknowledge the data point that none of the other teams in the SEC were good enough to get into the SECCG and we should take minus points away from them because of it. Your playoff ranking should be indicative of the entire season, not just the most recent game you played.

This is my point. If we were put in the exact same situation, how would people on this board react. I get fans are irrational, but you can't have it both ways. Either Alabama deserves to be out this year, and in the likely future where we're in the exact same situation we deserve to be out and I don't want to hear anyone on this board complain when we get leapt. OR Alabama deserves to be in, and in the likely future where we're ranked in the field but lose the ACCCG to a higher ranked team, we also deserve to be in.

Bingo!

And if you recruit out of high school well, develop well, and are good at retention there's less need for you to go into the portal. The fact that Franklin only slightly dipped into the portal but kept winning 10+ games shows elite retention & development which equals amazing culture.

Technically UVA has 2 ACC co-championships. But Manny Diaz won a solo ACC Championship before the Hoos won their first. And Manny Diaz won an ACC Championship Game before the Hoos won their first.

Job security (there are only 32 NFL kicking jobs, and they don't turn over very often), NIL, playing with his brother, and probably chance to be on a winning team for one year.

These from NY Times

QB: $1M to $4M
OT: $600K to $1.3M
RB: $400K to $900K
WR: $500Kto $1M
TE: $300K to $900K
Edge rushers: $500K to $2M
Interior DL: $500K to $1.5M
Corners: $250K to $1M
Safeties: $250K to $900K

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