re: Its Meltdownn Time! NSFW

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But from when I was 10 until 25, we pretty much always sucked

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I'm sure it felt that way, but the fact is that's simply not true no matter your age. Bama hasn't had a 15 year run of suckage in the entire history of the program.

Bryant's last 5 years saw SEC finishes of 1,1,2,1,6 with 2 nattys. He retired after the 1982 season.

Even if you call all of the Perkins and Curry years as suck (and they weren't - Curry won the SEC in 1989), that's a stretch of only 7 years.

Stallings averaged 10 wins a year, won a natty, and made 3 SECCG appearances. No real suck at all. Only slightly sucked when compared to Spurrier.

After him, even if you consider the entire stretch of DuBose, Fran, and Shula as suck (and they combined for 3 10 win seasons and a SEC title), that was only a 10 year stretch.

And then came Saban.

If you want to go back further, it was only 11 seasons between Frank Thomas and Bear Bryant.....