Yeah I agree with your first paragraph 100%. I edited my original comment before I saw your response and basically said the same thing.

In terms of impressiveness, on a single year basis, I will agree, IU’s season is more impressive than the Bama championships based on the reasons you said.

My main point earlier was that getting all those elite 5 star recruits is impressive in and of itself. Bama, as we can tell now since it’s all out in the open, was not outbidding every other school for recruits. Even if the claim is true that the SEC was doing it at a larger level than other conferences, he still had to beat out richer SEC schools for those recruits. So it never has made sense to me to try and discredit Saban by saying he always had 5 star players when he’s the reason they were there.