You are not seeing the full picture here ... I was there and fully aware in '68 of the landscape. Were you?
DKR had skins on the wall. He turned around a program in seriousc decline from Ed Price in 1957 in a couple of seasons. He won 1 NC in 1963, finished #2 in 1964, and should have won a NC in 1961. Texas also kicked serious *** vs. ou during most of the DKR era.
Tom Herman has not even sniffed that kind of success at UT and is a decline state.
So to your point, 1965-1967 DKR teams were 6-4 regular season - 3 years in a row, (bowl win in '67 finished 7-4). Those teams had better competition in the SWC and they unfortunately had key injuries on both sides of the ball each season. DKR focused on X's & O's, kept recruiting well, made some changes, improvised in 1968 with Emory Bellard developing a new O.
Comparing DKR's period to the current TH era is apples & oranges IMO.
Herman has created a monster on and off the field and it is starting to eat him alive.
DKR did none of that....
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