🏈 A 'take no prisoners' tweet on Texas and then piled on top of Sark.

[TideatMileHigh]

My college football hierarchy goes like this:

Tier 1: Blueblood traditional powerhouses. Teams like Alabama, OU, Ohio State, Michigan, Notre Dame, Nebraska, USC, Texas, Penn State

Tier 2: Decent programs. UF, LSU, Clemson, Miami, FSU, Washington, UGA, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Iowa, Pittsburgh, Arkansas

Tier 3: Envious Littlemans. Auburn, Texas A&M, UCLA, Colorado, Michigan State, Texas Tech, Okie State, USCe, Every college in Mississippi

Tier 4: "Basket is our sport anyway" UK, UNC, Duke, Syracuse

Tier 5: "Yeah well, we care about academics more than anything". Northwestern, Vandy

Tier 6: Basement dwellers happy to win 9 games every once in a while.

 

[planomateo]

My college football hierarchy goes like this:

Tier 1: Blueblood traditional powerhouses. Teams like Alabama, OU, Ohio State, Michigan, Notre Dame, Nebraska, USC, Texas, Penn State

Tier 2: Decent programs. UF, LSU, Clemson, Miami, FSU, Washington, UGA, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Iowa, Pittsburgh, Arkansas

Tier 3: Envious Littlemans. Auburn, Texas A&M, UCLA, Colorado, Michigan State, Texas Tech, Okie State, USCe, Every college in Mississippi

Tier 4: "Basket is our sport anyway" UK, UNC, Duke, Syracuse

Tier 5: "Yeah well, we care about academics more than anything". Northwestern, Vandy

Tier 6: Basement dwellers happy to win 9 games every once in a while.

Penn State a blueblood? Explain please

They don't have the hardware to back that up and should fall into the Tier 2 or Tier 3 in your example.

 

[OldPlayer]

Harvard, Princeton and Yale used to be pretty good. They have more NC than others (in pre-poll era).

 

[TideatMileHigh]

Penn State a blueblood? Explain please

They don't have the hardware to back that up and should fall into the Tier 2 or Tier 3 in your example.

They just barely make the cut in my list. I have to say that I am more inclined to agree with your input. Penn State is more of a UGA type of team. Both teams are consistently good for the most part, but they lack the hardware to back up their success. I give them a pass because they've been fairly consistently decent since the 1960s and had multiple undefeated seasons throughout the late 60s and into the mid 90s.

 

[BamaFan334]

Harvard, Princeton and Yale used to be pretty good. They have more NC than others (in pre-poll era).

I was going to say this when people said earlier that they don't consider recent results as a precursor to being a blue blood. Well Yale and Princeton definitely in that group.

 

[planomateo]

Lol, Ivy league a century ago

 

[TideatMileHigh]

I was going to say this when people said earlier that they don't consider recent results as a precursor to being a blue blood. Well Yale and Princeton definitely in that group.

I'll be honest, I find it amazing that those Ivy League schools can even find enough masculine males to even field a football team. At my university in Florida, I see freaks of all sorts wandering the campus. I can only imagine how much worse it is at a place like Harvard or Yale.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

I'd argue we'd be in the same spot if it wasn't for Coach Moore going after CNS.

Can't take away our past, can't take away their past. Which is why they're a blueblood.

Yep...cant disagree ...i guess...overhyped blueblood though

And i dont know anybody could have done what nick has done....
But allcoaches after Bear still had some success....((cept 1 that never got to coach a real game)....so i think bama would have been off n on up there..

 

[planomateo]

Texas proves you can't live on name alone.

Funny because I remember reading the article in Texas Monthly about Deloss Dodds (AD at Texas at the time). I posted it here back in 2008, its a great read, Come Early. Be Loud. Cash In.

If you think back to their trajectory at the time, basketball, baseball, football were on fire at the same time. And it eventually stopped.

Deloss was ahead of his time, he's been greatly missed in Austin.

But this also tells the story that you have to keep adapting to the ever changing landscape. This is true in every business and even more critical now than in years past.

Texas, like Texas A&M could be a very hard program to compete against given the right leadership and vision. They have arguably the deepest pockets in college athletics.