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Originally Posted by AUGUY55
Washington also has won a national title more recently than Uga. So lol that post. Seems like a whole lotta butthurt. Typical for Uga fans. Lol at the whole notion of doing it right and winning a ship with your home grown guy. Who gives a ****? Transfers are part of the game now. If my team can bring in a guy from another school and win a title the next year you bet your ass I want him on my team.
It's also ironic that Watson & Lawrence are from Georgia.
It's all fine and good to pick on UW, as they have sucked much of the past quarter century. What's often forgotten is that Don James had built UW into a great program that was dominating the Pac-10 and nationally relevant (claims to national titles in '84 & '91)... so dominant that the P-10 (spearheaded by USC & Stanford) began a witch hunt that resulted in probation & harsh sanctions that crippled the program and caused DJ to quit in protest. Here's one article that talks quite a bit about it:
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...rce-ncaas-hand
If they had been in the SEC, or probably any other conference, it's likely nothing would have happened to them. I remember reading about the start of the investigation, and in the same Los Angeles Times sports section was an article about 4 then-current USC football players that had carjacked some lady and then held her at gunpoint to make her withdraw money from an ATM.
Nick Saban wouldn't have even been a coach, nor the coach he became, if not for Don James. He's said so himself.