Can someone explain what the point is of that post was? It seemed like he was comparing a 25 year run by one coach (Coach Bryant) with a 20 year run by three coaches at Florida. Even if you could cumulatively add all three together they still do not measure up to what Alabama did during that run.

Florida has three national titles and eight conference titles during that span vs. six national titles and 13 conference championships. If you can lump three coaches together to compare can Alabama add Frank Thomas and Wallace Wade too?

I do not think there is much of a doubt that since the SEC expanded Florida has been the team over the long haul, but there have been other teams as well. LSU has a good argument for SEC team of this decade with its three conference championships and two national titles.

What a terribly written article, and why was it posted at this point in the season? Shouldn’t we be analyzing pertinent things like, actual college football games. That seems to me like an off season Dennis Dodd type article. I enjoy Team Speed Kills, and I suppose everyone deserves a pass but that was completely incoherent.

…was a better program than Alabama in the 90s overall, but they weren’t handicapped by NCAA probation or coaching changes…although you have to like the way we began the new SEC in 1992 and ended the decade in 1999. This decade has obviously been much worse for us and, despite the extra national title, not as consistent for UF. As CNS often notes, it’s how you finish…and I’m envisioning a nice finish for the Tide this year.

And yes, the article’s quality is poor. If you want to say that UF has been the top program since the divisions were created in 1992, fine, I’ll go along with that. Trying to compare that with Coach Bryant’s years at Bama is misguided and absurd.

is it at all possible to compare the great teams of the sec era by era? is florida’s current dominance at all like byrant’s tenure at alabama and, say, neyland’s in tennessee before that?

personally, i believe bryant’s tide teams will emerge the standard by which the rest are judged but there are interesting questions that should emerge from such an examination. like is it even possible for another coach of bryant’s degree of dominance to emerge (i don’t believe so).

i like TSK and i think they produce some really great stuff. but i gotta question the logic behind bumping this fanpost to their front page.

Did an article a few years back that fostered the premise that Bama could actually lay claim to 24 National Championships if they wanted, kind of the same way that Yale claims 13(?). In the 20’s and 30’s a lot of news agencies awarded Nat Championships. Bama got their share of those, especially after going to the Rose Bowl and winning on a national stage. This prof further contended that these victories had a lot to do with how the south was perceived by the nation and therefore helped pull the South out of reconstruction. If you look at how a winning team effects enrollment at a school (and it does), This idea has a lot of validity. Bama is bigger than all the coaches that have been or will ever be there.