How do you have Cadillac Williams, Ronnie Brown and Brandon Jacobs on one team and go 8-5?
Great question. But the answer lays in what happened to our O Coordinator. We had Petrino before he went crazy and went to a million teams in 3 years. He had our offense humming. He left and Tuberville made the mistake of a lifetime, he handed the play calling duties to his O line coach. We bombed. It was then that we brought on Al Borges who featured Brown and Williams in the same backfield and we dominated the 2004 season.
Borges fell out of graces after they left, and he alluded to it before it ever happened, and then Tuberville when high school spread, which was a disaster and Chizik was brought in. He runs the exact same offense, just with a better O coordinator.
And yes, we ALL knew how much of a beast Jacobs was while he was here. We also had some stud defenses at the time.