SugarCC
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Sometimes I feel like it really was the start of the downhill slide, but I have really started to pin more of that on the 99 team's season as a whole...There was no excuse for the lack of intensity and urgency that year, and I think it led to a slight downturn in recruiting instead of what should have been a flood of great talent in the 2-3 years immediately following the NC. Another great season in 99 would have led to a really great run, instead it was the start of the long downward spiral...the program lost it's hunger after they won it all.It was a horrible loss, way worse than GSU this year; but, most important...I have to go 2001 SEC Championship.
99 was disappointing, absolutely. But, we win that SEC championship, against a team we rolled earlier in the year, and playing a backup QB, we go play for our 2nd National Tiltle in 4 years. Who knows where we could have went as a program if that would've happened.Sometimes I feel like it really was the start of the downhill slide, but I have really started to pin more of that on the 99 team's season as a whole...There was no excuse for the lack of intensity and urgency that year, and I think it led to a slight downturn in recruiting instead of what should have been a flood of great talent in the 2-3 years immediately following the NC. Another great season in 99 would have led to a really great run, instead it was the start of the long downward spiral...the program lost it's hunger after they won it all.
I think we agree on one thing...it all sucked.99 was disappointing, absolutely. But, we win that SEC championship, against a team we rolled earlier in the year, and playing a backup QB, we go play for our 2nd National Tiltle in 4 years. Who knows where we could have went as a program if that would've happened.