re: Has it been discussed how AtM cheated it's way to victory?

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they would just scoff as if aTm isn't a real long-term competitor

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I'm not downing aTm, but I will say this: if you want to be competitive long-term in this conference, that offense isn't the way to go about it. It relies too much on particular individual players, e.g. JFbs, which makes your entire fate hinge upon the health and mental clarity of one, maybe two, player(s). Unless you can recruit a JFbs every two years, it won't work as a program building strategy - see Tubberville's last year at Auburn; Myer/Tebow at Florida; Nutt's wildcat at Ark and UM, etc. Initial success based upon personnel, but disasters once those people were hurt or moved on.