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They have been out recruiting you for the past three seasons, one in which their recruiting coordinator was poached weeks before signing day.

And they're still a 7-8 win team. Also, you make it sound like they were doing great until they hired Tedford and he screwed everything up. He's the best coach they've had in my lifetime. Where is it guaranteed that if they replace him the next guy will be better? When was the last time they had a better coach than Tedford?

It doesn't matter what happened in the 80s and 90s. Cal is a great school sitting on some of the most fertile recruiting ground in the country. Nebraska might be a blue blood, but sitting in the middle of nowhere without a Tom Osbourne/Chip Kelly type of innovator will make you mediocre.

2010 they were Higher, 2011 and 2012 we were higher.

We beat washington the last 2 years, you haven't.

2012: California 25, Nebraska 29
2011: California 15, Nebraska 17
2010: California 14, Nevraska 29

I know you're not trying to bring USC into this conversation so I'll disregard the UW line.

Good try but you cant use 247 rankings in 2010 or 2011. This site wasn't even here.

2010
Cal 11 NU 22
2011
NU 15 Cal 17
2012
Cal 23 Nu 25 but we had an higher average.Which i go by more because it doesn't factor in the # of commits.

Does it really matter? It is clear by now that neither Tedford nor Pelini will lead their respective teams to a National Title. Both schools could win it in the future. But it would depend on who is hired next.

I doubt either is coach capable of leading their team to a conference title.

correct answer. all the elements to win - large, dedicated alumni base w/ money, smack in the middle of one the most fertile, high quality recruiting grounds in the country, but they will find a way to f*ck it up. zero top 5 finishes since world war 2 - even when they were cheating their asses off. and now, they have cut off their nose to spite their face and won't even compete to win their own division.

I think any public university in a big 5 conference could win it all if they had a tremendous coach and got some lucky breaks.

If Nick Saban went to washington State tomorrow, they would be competing for BCS bowls within 3-4 years. With luck maybe they'd win it all.

Because the last couple of years have been CU's worst years in the history of our program! Damn dude, do you not get how big of a trainwreck Halk was? We had the talent to barely compete in the MWC last season. We started offensive players in the secondary for gods sake because Hawkins didn't really recruit in 2009 or 2010 or 2011 and the players he did get (Scott, Kasa, etc) have pretty much all left. We have had nothing. Nearly 50% of CU's student population comes from out of state, with damn near all of it coming from California. I really don't think you understand how bad it was under Halk.

Thanks for going into detail on that , doesn't change the fact that the state of Colorado is limited quality wise for athlete's and they don't have enough prestige to outrecruit for out of state talent.

As stated, Enough to draw out of state kids from their home states? I don't see it. Enough to keep their limited talent home? Not the last couple of years.

I guess those top 10 rankings when we were good means we can't draw kids out to Boulder. Man your logic is flawless, it's like talking to a wall. You are oblivious to any point brought up to counter your horribly weak argument. Check the CU teams in the 90's, they had a lot of Colorado kids on them starting as well as California kids. Hell, nearly all of our best players have been from California.