Which college team that has won a national title will NEVER win one again

Has anybody mentioned Washington football? With Oregon's commitment to the sport, it seems unlikely that UDub will ever get to a level where it's competing for the title any time soon.

 

Oregon hasn't won a title itself, and what happens when Phil Knight croaks?

 

Washington's problem has been coaching. Gilbertson and Willingham were disasters and Sark is average at best. The more his former assistants struggle in head-coaching jobs (and the better the Seahawks play), the more I think what an great, great job Pete Carroll did at SC.

Husky Stadium is beautiful after the remodel. Facilities are more than adequate. There are ample in-state players and Seattle is a draw to out-of-state recruits. Entrance requirements for athletes are not strict.

The NCAA sanctions (remember when it actually penalized schools for cheating?) really hurt. Lambright kept them decent, Neuheisel won a Rose Bowl, but since then bad, bad hires.

 

Actually, Oregon won the basketball championship in 1939, but the point is well-taken.

 

The Ivys didn't necessarily devolve their athletic programs. They just decided not to keep up when the Moo U's of the world were putting more and more money into them. Figure that college athletics at first, for the Ivys, were an elitist institution mostly as a sidelight at the most elite schools, even though they had their share of athletic chicanery in their day.

When you get to the tier of Duke, Stanford, Northwestern and Notre Dame, these are schools that use their athletics to attempt to project an image of excellence. You hear of the schools through their sports teams, but they are supposed to show that quality runs throughout the institution, whether it's sports or academics. That's the model Butler is trying to follow, and it's done so quite well. The success of men's basketball has put it on a sports par with well-respected private schools such as Georgetown (at least in terms of its conference), and now the next step for Butler is to use that to compete for students who might look at the same schools.

 

I don't understand how any of the schools still in big conferences can be ruled out. Arkansas? Only BCS school in the state, next door to much of the most fertile recruiting grounds in the country. It was very good in football just two years ago, and now it's impossible it could EVER win a championship again? This stuff is cyclical, and in 10 years an entirely different crop of teams will be cycled up and many, maybe most, of the current teams at the top will be cycled down, just like the unbeatable programs of 10 years ago are now, OU, Texas, USC, Florida, Nebraska.

Jesus, freaking KU is currently in the midst of one of the worst stretches of college football EVER and even it was within a few plays of the BCS title game within the last decade.

The answer to the question is schools that have basically stopped trying.

 

Exactly. In 2005, who in their right mind would have said Baylor would have a Heisman Trophy winner, an Elite Eight appearance, and a top-10 football ranking by 2013? Put a little effort into it, and you can get in the discussion. Get in the discussion on a regular basis, and sooner or later you'll break through.

 

Fixed.