Aside from our obvious cheating? Aside from the 3 most legendary players in mid major history, 2 of which were total luck. Aside from the 40 years of stagnation of the MAC? Aside from the damned heroin epidemic? Not much.
Yes, Chad, a legendary player that no one else offered a scholarship to. He was found and developed. What about Byron, whose only other offers were to play TE? Yep, discovered and developed by the coaches. Sure, I'll give you Randy, but was only here for one year in the MAC.
The whole prop thing is a favorite excuse of Doc apologists. Funny that the great players you mention, those who were responsible for our success weren't props. Also funny that the vast majority of the great players from those years weren't props. Funnier still that John still has the ability to take props, he just isn't as good at it. Do you think paying props $25 an hour instead of $10 made them much better players after their one year in the program? You like to act like we had 100 mops for props players on the team. We had less than a dozen and most of those weren't starters.