re: Looking Back......The 2001 Team

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We were really lucky that TN beat Florida the week before (in a game that had to be rescheduled because of Sept 11). Florida was soooo much better than TN, I was shocked that Florida lost that game at home. The one home game I got to see that year was one of the all team beat downs in Tiger Stadium. Rex Grossman, Gaffney and Caldwell torched us. As someone indicated in a previous post, our secondary was probably the weak link and UF really exposed it.

I'm not a Miami fan by any stretch, but their 2001 team was one of the best of all time. There were 16 first round draft picks on that team. Their RBs were Clinton Portis, Willis McGahee and Frank Gore. Shockey was TE, Andre Johnson was a WR. Their defense had Vince Wilfork, Vilma and Ed Reed. Just a ton of depth, just like ....

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Florida would have destroyed us again. That first game was absolutely the worst beat down I've ever seen a good LSU team take in Tiger Stadium or anywhere else. Our secondary was TERRIBLE.

Everyone hates on Hookfin, but Erin Damond was the worst player to ever line up in our secondary.

Our offense was fantastic by the end of the year, but as several others have said, I really don't even know if we beat UT if Rohan stayed in. Our passing game couldn't get going against their D, and they had no answer for Mauck's draws.

Great team with some of my favorite Tigers ever like JReed, Rohan, Toe, DD, Trev, Bradie, Corbello, but I'm glad things worked out the way they did so that we can play the what if game with them. Because the reality would not have been as fun against Florida or Miami.

Oh yeah, and anyone trying to play down the Miami 01 team didn't watch them play from 2000-2002, except for maybe the 02 BCSCG so they think they were overrated because OSU upset them.

Now, the 06 LSU would have beaten anyone in the country at the end of the year and it wouldn't have been all that close IMO.