Originally Posted by
MarkD83
4. There are ~150 FBS programs with ~80 players per team so ~12000 players and ~2400 need to be replenished each year (assuming the average stay is 5 years). Duke does not get the top players every year. Teams like Alabama do. So the key to the football program's success won't be the best X and O coaches on offensive or defense but if they can recruit. On the ACC network they were talking about the new head coach at Miami. His philosophy is that recruiting is a 24/7/365 proposition and he is heavily involved. With that attitude Miami will be back in the national picture. Let's hope that is a philosophy of the new Duke football staff.
I tend to disagree. Bad generals lose battles, no matter how good the soldiers are. Same applies to football coaches and players.
Last edited by sagegrouse; 12-11-2021 at 04:55 PM.
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Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013