How The West Was (Is) Won

By War Eagle Atlanta
glg68@aol.com After reading Jay's excellent article last week on what passes for greatness when it comes to coaches on the Plains, it got me thinking about all the ways we've come to define it, regardless of whom we choose to bestow it upon. The most popular is through SEC championships, and we all definitely agree that those are a whole lot harder these days than they used to be. I came of age with Auburn in the late 1980s, so I thought winning SEC titles was something we just did. But after a dearth of them in the 1990s, I slowly realized that they were a lot more special than I originally thought. more...