LSU won the title and their staff was fired within 2 years. You have schools like Utah and OK St who have had tremendous staff's for years, cant even make the playoffs. Cincinnati as well just recently, smoked in the playoffs. Put it like this, you are more likely to win with great talent and not so great coaching, than with great coaching and not so great talent. That doesn't prevent teams like Bama from having both. But one is clearly more important than the other. As for the who did or didn't play sports, that was your criteria for thinking someone opinion credible.