Tom Herman cleaning house in Austin

They didn't average four losses a year the past decade, the fewest they had in any given year is four. That's a huge difference. They've had some awful seasons

If you're suggesting that there's no difference in being 10-3 while losing to OSU and being 3-9 with rich rod and still losing to OSU, you should reevaluate what you can tolerate in this program

cite your source on 4 losses/ year over the last decade...

It would be very curious to see a Big 12 vs. Big 10 challenge akin to what we get in college basketball. Something tells me that the supposedly vaunted Big 10 defenses would get torn a new one. 

Or 5 star Garrett Wilson or njigbe (rockwall high school,  5 star wr incoming freshman) 

Barron Browning was a toss-up between Michigan and OSU.  He sniffed UT when Strong was on the way out.

We've gotten 6 recruits from CA under Jim, all of them 4 stars of varying degrees. One 4-star from CA every cycle is pretty good, given the distance and all the other schools that want to poach CA kids too. 

I also submit there's been a focus on recruiting GA, FL, and TX as well. We've signed 9 GA kids (~2 per class) under Jim, 18 FL kids (~3.5 per class), and 5 TX kids (1 per class).

We're averaging 7.5 commits per cycle from CA, FL, GA, and TX. That's not bad in a ~25 person class, when you consider how hard we also hit NJ, the DMV, and IL. We're recruiting the right geographic areas, we just need to take the next step.

I feel like they've had a decent bit of success in California? Crawford, Long, Charbonnet to name a few

The unfortunate timing is that Stanford (due to Harbaugh) has been punching above their weight class and I feel like we appeal in the same aspects as Stanford does. And in that kinda battle, the home team usually wins out 

OU, yes. A&M, maybe. If UT lives up to half of its potential the other schools don't stand a chance.

I think they're hurt more from OSU taking all of their state's best recruits than from any of the local competition. A&M doesn't even play in their conference anymore. While they have to share the good players with those schools, the great players have been ending up in Columbus.

This actually has me hoping that Texas becomes good again. The one thing that baffles me about recruiting is that these kids visit Columbus and decide they want to spend a couple years of their lives there rather than Austin, Ann Arbor, or Madison. You would think that a bunch of five stars would get together and decide to prioritize location. Tom Herman needs to find his inner Pete Carroll.

When Mack Brown left I was super happy that Texas had fallen but it's really disrupted the college football ecosystem. OSU and OU have used it to become the uncontested big fishes in their conferences.

In 2016, UM loses two Heartbreakers to Iowa and osu. Win either one and they are in the CCG.

In 2018, Maryland comes within inches of upsetting osu. This would have sent UM to the CCG.

A couple breaks or bounces our way, we have a whole different narrative today.

It sucks losing to osu every year, but we're in a much better place now than we were before Harbaugh.

No one knows if Day is a great coach or not. Gene Chizik won an MNC in his second year and he was a bad coach. Brady Hoke won a BCS bowl in year one. 
Day may be a very good coach, but we really don’t know yet.