Somewhere up there in That Big Southeastern Conference Coaching Hospitality Suite in the Sky, Bear Bryant, Pat Dye and Gen. Robert Neyland are sippin' some fine oak-aged bourbon and lamenting what has happened to the slobber-knockin’ defenses that once dominated the SEC.
“It used to be that to win a game,” Bear is telling his compadres, “you had to first learn how not to lose a game. And the way you do that is with defense.”
“That’s right,” Dye growls, “but what I’m seeing in the SEC right now; it ain’t defense; it’s dancing!"
Says Neyland: “I haven’t seen such weak defense in the South since ol' General William Tecumseh Sherman’s March to the Sea.