You’re beyond obtuse.
You did criticize Saban, you criticized his decision to hire TR.
‘How can you blatantly lie and say that you didn’t criticize Saban ?
Player talent dictates results !
When team “A’s” talent is superior to team “B’s talent, ” the high probability is that team “A’s” stats will be better than team “B’s” stats.
Long’s rosters had superior talent when compared to Rees’s rosters.
One only has to recall your blistering criticisms of the lack of talent at the QB position last year to support that premise.
Long had Ian Book, the winningest QB in ND history, as his QB for Long’s entire 3 year stint at ND. Do I need to remind you of your disdain for Buchner and Pyne as ND’s QB’s ?
You don’t have the facts on your side.
You have surface stats from two separate periods of time, but when you dive deeper into those stats it becomes evident that the teams in 2017, 2018 and 2019 had better talent than the teams in 2020, 2021 and 2022, starting with the most important and critical position, QB. Ergo, the teams in 2017, 2018 and 2019 should produce better stats.
But you can’t make the quantum leap that a team with more talent that had better stats, means that their OC was better than TR.
WHY didn’t Saban hire Chip Long if he was better ?