It takes a healthy dose of recruiting, development, and X and O coaching ability. There is a reason that coaching is such a carousel lifestyle. You have to be able to recruit well to get the right players for your system. You have to be able to develop and nurture that talent and get absolutely every drop of talent and potential from the recruits. You also have to develop, install, and execute your gameplan better then your opponent. Dodge was able to recruit some really good talent here. His problem was that he was too rigid to change and wanted to force and will his system to success. Dickey's run was mainly based on one REALLY great recruiting year that he rode to a pretty good run. I don't think RV really ever liked him as he wasn't HIS guy. Dickey got disillusioned and went scorched earth. Mac was a rah rah kind of guy that could sell sand to a Sheik. He fit the mold of what RV said he was looking for at the time and was in the right place at the right time. He recruited poorly and his coaching couldn't overcome his talent in the end.