Captain obvious says both are important. However, the reality is, coaches find themselves in situations where they arrive to programs that don't have elite talent yet.
After listening to the OB modcast, I respectfully disagreed with @DustinMcComas regarding Quinn Ewers decommitment being program changing. His decommitment doesn't change the Texas football program. It keeps it on the mediocre path it's on with a head coach like Tom Herman.
In my opinion, it is the elite coach that changes the program and that's what Texas needs (and I know I know, it is incredibly hard to land one).
Look at the info below for the first five seasons of Saban, Dabo and Urban with the talent they inherited and then recruited:
I decided to include Urban's recovery of the Florida football program instead of Ohio State's because it was situationally more difficult, in my opinion.
After listening to the OB modcast, I respectfully disagreed with @DustinMcComas regarding Quinn Ewers decommitment being program changing. His decommitment doesn't change the Texas football program. It keeps it on the mediocre path it's on with a head coach like Tom Herman.
In my opinion, it is the elite coach that changes the program and that's what Texas needs (and I know I know, it is incredibly hard to land one).
Look at the info below for the first five seasons of Saban, Dabo and Urban with the talent they inherited and then recruited:
I decided to include Urban's recovery of the Florida football program instead of Ohio State's because it was situationally more difficult, in my opinion.
