At Alabama, he won 6 titles in 17 seasons, for a 0.353 winning rate. Between Alabama and LSU he won 7 titles in 23 seasons as head coach, or 0.304.
Since 1965 NDSU has played 54 seasons of post season eligible football, for a .315 winning rate.
Let's extrapolate that down to the D1 era for NDSU, with 9 titles in 20 years, or 0.45 winning rate.
My son heard a stat this morning: Saban had nearly 2:1 ratio of players who went round 1 draft versus total losses.
I guess he could recruit eh?
Don't believe everything you think.
It's a deterrent to keep too many teams from making the jump. Similar to the 1-year ineligibility rule that existed for player transfers. Based on the number of transfers that have occurred since that restriction was removed I would say it was a pretty major deterrent. NIL has only made it worse. If they didn't have this deterrent I imagine even more D2 schools would be trying to move up. Same thing with the bowl limitation in FBS that JMU and JSU appealed and lost.
Instance #1,001 where the NCAA shows its true colors. The student athletes are the direct receivers of any sort of punishment, enforcement or disincentive.
Moving up? Athletes don’t get a postseason
Cheated? Athletes lose scholarships
Transferring? Coaches and administrators do it freely while athletes get a narrow window and only recently one “free” transfer
It makes no sense as a deterrent unless schools are moving up for FCS football (spoiler: It's almost always basketball.)
This is the kind of not-well-thought-out stuff that makes the NCAA look like a bunch of officious morons. It really bugged the hell out of me when NDSU athletes couldn't compete at the NCAA track meets, for example.
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