Bingo. By Kaos's own implications at least.
Every other year he's "the king of close, but no cigar".
The difference is Chizik.
I know you don't really mean this. AWK hit it with Vince Young.
However, he does have a cigar...that's key. You can't say "close but no" about him anymore.
What's most impressive and totally necessary is staying in that "close but" category year after year. If you stay there, you will get the cigar. If you stay there long enough, you'll get more than one.
Bobby Bowden finished in the Top 5 for 14 straight years....that got him a whopping two titles. Both titles took Heisman trophy winners to win (Chris Weinke and Charlie Ward), just like it took Vince Young to get Texas over the hump. Bowden has 18 ten-win seasons. He has 11 eleven-win seasons. All that winning only led to 2 titles.
Joe Paterno has 21 ten-win seasons and
15 eleven-win seasons. Hell, he even has 5 undefeated seasons. Yet he too only has 2 titles.
And it's not just football. Look at how much winning Dean Smith did, he only had two titles. Bobby Knight won 900 games....3 titles in 42 years.
It's just actually very, very hard to win it all, despite what Meyer made it look like in his first 5 years at Florida. (Even he just went 13-1 last year, yet didn't win it all).
If Mack Brown stays there another 5-7 years at Texas, he'll have a chance to win another one I bet.