re: Check in if your team is 1st in the SEC

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The way you describe Auburn during that time is A&M’s sitrep now. We want to be consistently competitive; hoops just isn’t an ingrained part of our culture.

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The thing with Auburn was, we always had the potential. We're right in the middle of some really good recruiting grounds, ATL, Bham, the gulf coast regions and Florida panhandle. And the potential for fan support was there too, go back and look at videos of our crowds in the late 90s with the Chris Porter and Doc Robinson teams, or to the 80s with the Sonny Smith teams when Auburn was one of the better teams in the conference.

But then we went over a decade where we were honestly probably one of the bottom 3 programs in all the major conferences and the administration didn't seem to care, so I guess a lot of Auburn fans decided they didn't care either if the people that could actually do something about it didn't. But a lot of us also suffered through it. I was in 6th grade when I watched us go to a Sweet Sixteen and we didn't make the NCAAT again until I was 26 years old. So yeah, you can imagine how happy a lot of us are to just be where we are right now.