Greg Cote

The problem that they had for 20 years is the first-round picks weren't either being developed here or found before they were first-round picks.

Now it's not refutable.

20 years and you on and well you say no doubt but you just argued with it like that you are really underestimating okay Mario Cristobal comes in for four years 90 million dollars and everybody says what are they doing what are they doing they're making a 90 million dollar down payment on nope we're gonna play in this every year like we're gonna you're gonna know that we're gonna compete for this every year why because the pros play here now

You say, what's the hard part?

Winning a national championship is hard, but I can make the argument with four first-round picks.

You underachieved.

Indiana doesn't have four of those.

Okay, but Miami had a bunch of first-round picks one year and got beat by Ohio State, who didn't have a bunch of first-round picks but had like 14 players drafted.

Not a bunch of first-round picks, but had a bunch of pros on the field.

Indiana's older.

My point is that you just played against a team that had the best college resume in the history of the sport.

for the national championship.

And you now have what Lane Kiffin said Alabama had every time they walked onto the field, which is you walk onto the field and you're like, our guys are all bigger than theirs.

We have, like, the whole thing is built on, for all of the guys that we're talking about being drafted, okay, the whole thing's built on we're going to be more physical than you up front.

They haven't even gotten the skill guys there yet.

Cam Ward was one of them, but they haven't actually gotten the receiver room, the tight end room.

You think...

that digging them out of the hole they were in for 20 years, that there's something harder than that?

Because they were trying for 20 years to dig out of that hole.

Once you get to that game and are the number two team, the leap from there isn't a very large one.