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I was chatting with the wife last night about the tiny restaurant we found in the tiny village where our daughter lives.  We went there for lunch 4-5 times and really enjoyed it.  The food was basic of course, but fresh and well done, the lady chef said she got up at 5 AM every day to buy what she needed from a market that was not closeby.

That model doesn't work in the US obviously.  I guess she made enough to live on, we didn't go for dinner, maybe she got busy then, but not at lunch.  She had one server.

They always had a roaring fire going and it was cold so that was great.  The bistro model doesn't work here.

Some places get close.

Not brats

A brat needs a covering of grilled onions and peppers and nothing else

A good mett with grilled onion/peppers, and maybe kraut on the side for those who want, and mustards on the side if some want ...

I like to grill the sausages of whatever ilk in the Creuset on the stove with onions and peppers and potatoes and carrots ...

I was instructed you simmer the brats first.  NOT BOIL, simmer.

Can't remember which crotchety old badgerfan scolded me on that one though...

When you boil, you virtually guarantee blistering the casing, even before you get to the grill and that's not something you want. 

I don't consider UCLA to be a blueblood.  In the most recent edition (2017) of Stewart Mandel's ranking system, UCLA was amongst the Barons, and they have done nothing worthwhile since then.  They may be headed down to join the Knights--Arizona State, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas State, et. al.

I wonder how many more underperforming years it would take for USC to drop down to Baron status.

Idk, looking at the top programs in the last 20 years, it simply looks like the south and west are taking over.  I think we may have hit the population tipping point that we've discussed on here before, a few years back. 

There's still more people in the north, but it may have ticked past a certain point that it no longer matters. 
Look at the best P5 programs by win% the last 20 years:
1. Ohio St
2. Oklahoma
3. LSU
4. Georgia
5. Alabama
6. Clemson
7. Oregon
8. TCU
9. USC
10. Wisconsin
11. Florida
12. Texas
13. Virginia Tech
14. FSU
15. Auburn
.
19. Miami
20. Michigan
21. Penn St
26. Nebraska
27. Notre Dame
33. Tennessee
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Look at the same thing, just 10 years before (so a 10-year overlap):
1. Florida
2. Ohio St
3. Nebraska
4. FSU
5. Miami
6. Texas
7. Tennessee
8. Michigan
9. Virginia Tech
10. Penn St
11. Georgia
12. Oklahoma
13. USC
14. Auburn
15. Kansas St
.
16. Oregon
18. Wisconsin
19. Notre Dame
20. LSU
22. Alabama
23. Clemson
.
While the Florida schools have fallen off some, Nebraska and Tennessee have fallen off a cliff.  Michigan and Penn St have fallen some, and all of them have been replaced by Wisconsin, Oregon, Alabama, LSU, and Clemson. 
ND wasn't good enough to fall off a cliff

In the 10 years before this (with overlap), LSU, Oregon, and Wisconsin were irrelevant.  Washington was 9th and they've fallen off way worse than even Tennessee has.  USC didn't matter during that stretch, and Texas and OU were outside the top 15 as well. 

But the former staples Penn St, Michigan, Tennessee, and Nebraska are basically gone.  As they hop from HC to HC, the deeper they fall and will have to climb out.  The harder it will be to find that necessarily great HC, who'll be getting offers from better programs.  Alabama was 10th in this 3rd rolling era, so they swooned and came back stronger than ever before.  Will one of these listed do the same?