[Fly Like a Duck]

Bottom line boys is players win, if you aint got em you aint winning many games!!!!! Put Saban at Vandy and see how many SEC titles he wins. And please no one get on here and say he would win them at Vandy. If Bell has players they will win, if not they will lose. Now I think great coaches can win with less talent but you cant win the big ones without players.

You said it Eagle and even the great/good ones struggle with bad talent.

Staying healthy is another factor that's always key, but it's even moreso a key when you suck to begin with.

Bill Sharp at Russell County won 30+ games in three years. The last two years? He/they have won one.

Tom Duffy won multiple state titles at Danville and Highlands. He then goes to Henderson and builds that job into what many always thought it could be; with that said he even had two years (post success) where he went 1-19 over a two year span.

Muney already pointed out the struggles Sam Harp,in all of his greatness, has had in TN (5 wins in 3 years, 2-18 his first two years).

Players and all of these underlying factors that coaches can't control (what I named above in another post) is all that matters when you get down to the brass taxes of it all.

There are some bad coaches out there, let's not get it twisted. However, I firmly believe there are many more good coaches at bad programs in our state than the other way around.