re: How many Bama fans remember this game?

Croom had back to back wins over Bama with a win over Saban. He alone accounted for nearly 12% of State's all time victories over Bama. Maybe, you should have held on to him.

But, to the game, I was deployed that football season and missed it... thank god

That was a talented enough Alabama team, but gawd dang did they ever up and quit after the LSU loss. The MSU loss completely fractured the locker room as some of the "leaders" failed to buy in to what Saban was doing. And, the ULM loss finally created the sense of urgency among the team and staff to cut out the cancers and move full force toward positive organizational change.

Sometimes you have to raze the building and start over from the foundation up if you want something that will last. We appreciate MSUs part in making that happen for us in 2007.