I think you had to actually have been alive at the beginning of the 80's to make such a statement.
Wasn't "Bo Over the Top" the end of a nine year streak to Bama?
Didn't Pat Dye get hired solely because a certain madman booster named Bobby Lowder decided to start giving large amounts of money?
If this certain madman booster named Bobby Lowder decided to not give large amounts of money, wasn't it assumed that Auburn's football program would turn into a perennial cellar dwellar much like Miss State or Ole Miss?
That time period of Auburn football was horrendous, and I'm glad I wasn't part of it.