re: Which Big 6 coach had the worst first year loss?

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Which was the point the program quit digging and started going the opposite direction. Honestly it was the beginning of the greatest run in football history. That’s a great thing.

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Yep - I mean we could have probably still hit the bottom in a 24-21 win vs ULM sandwiched between ugly losses to State and Auburn, but the ULM loss was about as clear a wake up call to everybody in the program of where we were at that point in time as could happen.

They even showed up at Auburn the next week and competed, just weren't good enough on offense. And everything after that Auburn loss for the next 15 years went pretty well.