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re: 2003 Alabama vs. Tennessee Highlights
Posted on 7/29/15 at 9:33 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 7/29/15 at 9:33 am to RollTide1987
It was an amazing game...thought Bama pulled it off before that 4th and 17. My freshman year at UT and we had a blast that night!
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Posted on 7/29/15 at 9:48 am to Ericvol2096
These were bad days.
When we started hearing rumblings of wrongdoing within the Bama program in 2000 it killed recruiting. THen we had the schollie limits for 2001,02,03 that set us back until around 2007 when we finally got back to full 85 players and most of those were probation recruits who couldnt play. I've always said Sabans best coaching job at Bama was 2007. That was a 4 or 5 win team and we won 7 and probably would have one more without the suspensions following the UT game. Had some big wins against much more talented teams like UT 41-17. Near misses against Georgia n OT and eventual national champ LSU. Ugly loss vs Monroe and blowout by Auburn but you could tell Saban had us moving in the right direction.
Somebody had the Georgia game on the other day from 03 and I didnt even watch it as I knew it would be a slaughter.
Funny thing said by Franchione when lining up against UT in 01. He said both teams came on the field and he said I looked at Tennessee's players and looked at ours and thought, we have no business playing them
He was right. Watching warmups it was not whether UT would win but by how much back then. Fulmer had a great program and we were wallowing in mud with guys that frankly had no business plying SEC ball. I remember getting a tailback named Ken Darby who we beat Jax State out for in recruiting and it was a last minute decision on his part to de-commit from JSU and come to Bama. Bad, bad days.
Couldnt believe we almost pulled this one out. We wound up 4-9 that 03 season and I cant believe we won 4.
When we started hearing rumblings of wrongdoing within the Bama program in 2000 it killed recruiting. THen we had the schollie limits for 2001,02,03 that set us back until around 2007 when we finally got back to full 85 players and most of those were probation recruits who couldnt play. I've always said Sabans best coaching job at Bama was 2007. That was a 4 or 5 win team and we won 7 and probably would have one more without the suspensions following the UT game. Had some big wins against much more talented teams like UT 41-17. Near misses against Georgia n OT and eventual national champ LSU. Ugly loss vs Monroe and blowout by Auburn but you could tell Saban had us moving in the right direction.
Somebody had the Georgia game on the other day from 03 and I didnt even watch it as I knew it would be a slaughter.
Funny thing said by Franchione when lining up against UT in 01. He said both teams came on the field and he said I looked at Tennessee's players and looked at ours and thought, we have no business playing them
He was right. Watching warmups it was not whether UT would win but by how much back then. Fulmer had a great program and we were wallowing in mud with guys that frankly had no business plying SEC ball. I remember getting a tailback named Ken Darby who we beat Jax State out for in recruiting and it was a last minute decision on his part to de-commit from JSU and come to Bama. Bad, bad days.
Couldnt believe we almost pulled this one out. We wound up 4-9 that 03 season and I cant believe we won 4.
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