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Certainly, you can take nothing away from Chow's record at the collegiate level. He's a tremendous developer of QBs and a talented playcaller. His prep work on breaking down a defense is as good as anyone's in the last 30 years.

But . . . Dogg is right to a great extent, IMO.

If you line up Heisman quality players like Bush, Leinart, Williams, White, Jarrett, etc . . . a lot of OCs could have done something with that crew. It looks pretty easy when Bush takes what should be a 6 yard gain, and turns it into a 60 yard TD play.

In '05, the playcalling was just fine for that offense that produced (2) 1,000 yard rushers, basically (2) 1,000 yard receivers and a 3,000 yard passer for the first time in CFB history. And Chow wasn't there.

Basically, its a combination of things -

Injuries play a part. Does the '04 team go undefeated or play as efficiently if they lose Leinart, Bush, Kalil, and Lutui for three games during the middle of the season like the
'07 team did? Probably not.

Defensive turnovers and 3rd down efficiency. We know both those stats dropped in
'06 and '07. Prior SC offensive teams benefited greatly from the short fields created by the defense. Playcalling is a whole lot easier when you've got 40 yards to the end zone, rather than 80 yards.

From my experience, when you coach you can really see the change in productivity when a different group of core players come into your system year over year. You can run the very same plays . . . but special players simply make special plays, and make you look like a better coach.