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I started watching the video I will post below. I like what Cris Carter says about the Alabama Dynasty and what it has done. The level of play, the quality of the competition and the growth of the sport can, at least partly be laid at the feet of Nick Saban.
The juggernaut of Alabama football has improved the game that Dabo Sweeney coaches. For years there was a joke that some team had "Clemsoned Out". Start strong and then folded to an inferior opponent. It is hard to see that now.
Urban Meyer has become better by facing, or knowing he will face, Saban and the Crimson Tide. Schools have improved facilities to compete.
On the flip side, Nick Wright says he doesn't like dynasties because he watches sports to see the great athletes do great things. There is no one player that you can point to and say HE is the reason they've won.
Most of the big sports are teams sports. Football, as much as any sport, requires team work. The best QB or RB only does well when their offensive line does their job. On a college football team, you have aroun 100 young men to be organized, trained, taught and motivated. For many of them, it is their first time away from home. That an institution can continue to produce teams that play at the highest level, with changing players, changing strengths, changing weaknesses, and changing ass't coaches is phenomenal.
A team sport requires not only top level athletes, but a selflessness that is hard to teach. But the lessons learned carry on for life.
What does anyone else think of dynasties? And I mean in any sport.
The juggernaut of Alabama football has improved the game that Dabo Sweeney coaches. For years there was a joke that some team had "Clemsoned Out". Start strong and then folded to an inferior opponent. It is hard to see that now.
Urban Meyer has become better by facing, or knowing he will face, Saban and the Crimson Tide. Schools have improved facilities to compete.
On the flip side, Nick Wright says he doesn't like dynasties because he watches sports to see the great athletes do great things. There is no one player that you can point to and say HE is the reason they've won.
Most of the big sports are teams sports. Football, as much as any sport, requires team work. The best QB or RB only does well when their offensive line does their job. On a college football team, you have aroun 100 young men to be organized, trained, taught and motivated. For many of them, it is their first time away from home. That an institution can continue to produce teams that play at the highest level, with changing players, changing strengths, changing weaknesses, and changing ass't coaches is phenomenal.
A team sport requires not only top level athletes, but a selflessness that is hard to teach. But the lessons learned carry on for life.
What does anyone else think of dynasties? And I mean in any sport.
