Actually, now that I think about it, the late 90's we beat most everybody in the SEC West pretty consistently, except for LSU and maybe Arkansas. And even then, we were usually pretty competitive except for LSU and we still managed to beat LSU in 1999 and Arkansas in 1998 which were huge victories. We lost to Arkansas twice in OT and then we were pretty much robbed in 1999 when a TD pass came back on a "holding" call.

But while we were winning, I think most of the other programs could tell that we really weren't progressive. We did expand the stadium, but what we really needed to do was enclose it. I think they figured it was only a matter of time before the NCAA got Jackie and then we would hire some boob like Croom and all would be right with the world again.

I think that's the difference now- we are actually doing things under Dan that are progressive- not that Jackie didn't try, I don't think he had the support from the AD that he needed. Inevitably going to enclose the stadium, we have the new football facility, etc. I also think it's smart that while we are enclosing the stadium, instead of making it about more seats, it's about being more upscale with premium seating.

But yeah- I don't understand why Dan is getting criticized for sending someone's Mom a Mother's Day card on Mother's Day? Maybe his mistake was not showing up in his underwear and hand delivering it? Then it would be tenacious.

I still say that the NCAA is going to have to look at what is going on with football recruiting and limit some of this garbage that is going on. Sending a kid 500 facebook messages shouldn't be allowed. And I know my parents would have been royally pissed if a college sent me 200 letters in one day when I was in high school.

One thing I do like about Dan is when he does this stuff, you can kind of tell he is making fun of the other schools for doing it. What's even more funny is the recruits get what he's doing every single time.