(09-28-2021 11:22 AM)Statefan Wrote:  I looked over the AP final polls in 5-7 year increments and noticed the following schools disappear from elite status and not return:

In the mid 1970's that's Arizona State and Maryland
In the early 80's it's Pitt
In the late 80's it Syracuse
In the early 90's it's Colorado
In the late 90 it's Kansas State, Miami, Tennessee, and Nebraska
In the middle 00's it Texas, West Va, and Virginia Tech
In the early 10's it's Michigan, Oklahoma State, South Carolina, and Baylor
In the late 10's it's Florida State

I look at the list and see very rich schools and some of more ordinary means. Most of the ordinary wealth schools seem to have obtained and then not been able to replace a transformative coach or a coach good enough not to piss away the advantages inherent to the school.

I also notice these are not by and large "cow colleges" another way to identify typically large land grant, AG, and STEM oriented, Male oriented universities. It makes me wonder if cultural influences are much more profound than we might imagine.

It's just not easy to support a top 10 football program at a "girls" school. I don't use the term just for gender but toward a more global way of looking at the world in a non-overly masculine way.

The trend these days almost every school will become a girls school. "This fall, women outnumber men on two-year and four-year college campuses by millions. Nearly 60% of students are women while only about 40% are men, an education gap that has been widening for decades."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/t...278887002/