and was wandering who the OC was that year. What I noticed about that game was how we could move the ball against Florida with confidence. Was it that our OL was that good along with us having probably the best back in the country to make the other defenses leery of the run and not just concentrate on our receivers. The receivers also looked like they knew how to run routes. How did we lose any games that year. The defense was like a swarm of bees against the run and the DBs played pretty good to. I noticed one time that we rushed 3 down linemen and still got real good pressure on the QB or make some bone crushing stops in the backfield. The best thing I liked, and I had not seen it since 1989, (does anybody remember who the leading receiver was that year), was throwing to a good TE. I can't wait till we have another TE like that. What are your thoughts?
Replayed the 1999 SEC championship game...
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I believe either Neil Callaway or Charlie Stubbs.
We lost to UT because Zow and Alexander were both injured. I believe Zow was injured on a late hit which were never called against UT. (The last couple of games have been much better but for many years it was just absurd)
We lost to La Tech on a last second hail mary, I believe on 4th down, thrown by the back up QB. Lucky play but it should have never been that close. That's when Tim Rattay I think, played for La Tech.
We lost to Michigan because Carr finally removed his head from his bum and realized we could not stop the pass. I guess he didn't watch game films or something.
Our pass defense was really bad. Fortunately few teams attempted to exploit it, just like last season when teams played Ole Miss. The teams that threw on them won. La Tech was a passing team so they didn't really try to run it on us and once Michigan quit running the ball and started throwing every play, they caught up and eventually won. I think we missed an extra point. We were also playing some backups on the OL in that game due to injury and/or grades and the officiating was really bad, but the main reason we lost was our pass defense.
The main reason we won games are Samuels, Zow, Alexander, Milons, Carter, and the DL. The OC may have been ok but the coaching staff was so fragmented it didn't matter.
In 2000 if we had run the ball every single play we may have had a winning record. They tried to force the passing game to work even though it never had a chance and it wasn't necessary, but the running game was solid. It's like they were trying to pass just for the sake of passing, there was no rhyme or reason. We ran the ball up and down the field on LSU and then just started passing for no reason and lost the game as a result.
We lost to UT because Zow and Alexander were both injured. I believe Zow was injured on a late hit which were never called against UT. (The last couple of games have been much better but for many years it was just absurd)
We lost to La Tech on a last second hail mary, I believe on 4th down, thrown by the back up QB. Lucky play but it should have never been that close. That's when Tim Rattay I think, played for La Tech.
We lost to Michigan because Carr finally removed his head from his bum and realized we could not stop the pass. I guess he didn't watch game films or something.
Our pass defense was really bad. Fortunately few teams attempted to exploit it, just like last season when teams played Ole Miss. The teams that threw on them won. La Tech was a passing team so they didn't really try to run it on us and once Michigan quit running the ball and started throwing every play, they caught up and eventually won. I think we missed an extra point. We were also playing some backups on the OL in that game due to injury and/or grades and the officiating was really bad, but the main reason we lost was our pass defense.
The main reason we won games are Samuels, Zow, Alexander, Milons, Carter, and the DL. The OC may have been ok but the coaching staff was so fragmented it didn't matter.
In 2000 if we had run the ball every single play we may have had a winning record. They tried to force the passing game to work even though it never had a chance and it wasn't necessary, but the running game was solid. It's like they were trying to pass just for the sake of passing, there was no rhyme or reason. We ran the ball up and down the field on LSU and then just started passing for no reason and lost the game as a result.
Neil Calloway was the de facto OC, while Charlie Stubbs was the QB coach and called the plays. The offense that season became very effective because of Stubbs, IMO. Does anyone know what he's doing these days?
Every play called was a wrestling match, which is the reason we had so many delay penalties. I'm sorry, but I think that the "O" was effective despite Stubbs, maybe despite all of the coaching bums. If you had to narrow it down, it was SA, CS and AZ...
Well, that's true. I have always thought that Stubbs was a good coach that never got a good chance. I could be totally off on that. But you're right. Without those players, that wouldn't have been a winning season, much less an SEC Championship season.
We lost the Orange Bowl because we had a kicker that couldn't consisenntly kick the ball through the uprights.
We lost the Orange Bowl because we had a kicker that couldn't consisenntly kick the ball through the uprights
The irony of that miss still bothers me.
The irony of that miss still bothers me.
The Orange Bowl wasn't even close until Michigan abandonned the running game and started throwing the ball. It should have never come down to a kick.
Michigan scored 3 TD's in the third qtr.
Samuels was out due to injury. Ellington took his place at left tackle with Raulston and Baxley playing RT.
Alexander set a school record for most TD'in a bowl with 3, and had 161 yds rushing. Milons set an Orange bowl record with 107 yds on 4 punt returns.
In OT both teams scored TD's but we missed the extra point.
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Michigan scored 3 TD's in the third qtr.
Samuels was out due to injury. Ellington took his place at left tackle with Raulston and Baxley playing RT.
Alexander set a school record for most TD'in a bowl with 3, and had 161 yds rushing. Milons set an Orange bowl record with 107 yds on 4 punt returns.
In OT both teams scored TD's but we missed the extra point.
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Thinking about the heart of that team, my good friend, the All-Pro OG (member of the "Gang of 61," which makes him my age), has always maintained that a team needs only 5-6 "superstars," surrounded by "good" players. More than that, and they start stepping on each other. See LA Lakers. I believe he's right...
I think that depends a lot on their attitude. If they have the superstar, me first attitude then I agree but if they have superstar ability and a team firt attitude then you can have more of them. Look at the last 49'ers Super Bowl team. They had a lot of superstars that signed for less money than they could have gotten elsewhere but they had a common goal of winning the Super Bowl, not displaying their individual talents.
Well, he's a two-time AA and was a perennial All-Pro in his thirteen year pro career, so I tend to listen to him, when it comes to football. I realize there are exceptions to the rule, but this year's Laker team is more the rule.
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