if Snell and Starks were all-SEC? They were.
Maybe if Zook had signed more than 3 offensive linemen in that first class, he might have had something.
As far as Spurrier's last 3 years go, in 1999 they lost four games to the eventual national champion FSU, twice to a 10-3 Bama team that would win the Orange Bowl, and a 10-2 Michigan State team playing so their interim coach would get the head job. Those teams were a combined 32-5. Not a lot of shame in those games.
In 2000, they lose to FSU aGAIN, lose the Sugar Bowl to a Miami team that should have been national champions at 11-1 (they beat Florida State which got to play Oklahoma in the NC game), and of course to us. Combined record 31-7, 4 of those losses were us.
In 2001, they suffer what I would consider the first bad loss of this 3 year period, a loss to a 7-5 Auburn team. Regardless of that, they were still in position to play for the national title when the makeup 9/11 game against Tennessee is a loss. They still finish 10-2 and rank in the top 5. So Spurrier's last year, they score more points that they had since 1996, give up fewer points than they had since 1998, and returned 6 offensive starters (including 3 linemen) and 5 defensive starters (including a SEC player of the year), and weren't in position to continue their succcess? You really believe Spurrier stays at Florida and goes 23-15 the next 3 years?
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