Freddie milons, A.C. Carter, Santonio Beard, Andrew Zow, Galloway, Saleem Rasheed. Loved all those guys when I was a kid. So fun to look back and see them again.
RIP Ahmaad Galloway. Andrew Zow is one of those players man. He didn't have a great arm. He wasn't athletic. But he had ice in his veins. That dude played well the moment they put him in as a freshman. It's really a shame that the football department was in shambles at the time because this group was solid. They should have won an SEC title.
True story. I lived in Auburn for a brief period during 00/01 however, Im a lifelong Bama guy. I was down from Birmingham setting up a new account for my company which took about a year. I began dating an AU grad student and we were about 7 months in to the relationship. On game day, she started the party at 6 am in anticipation of the game. Mad shittalk all day. Obviously, when AU lost she wasn't talking shit anymore, but I was. That, my friends, was not acceptable. Suffice to say, we were not dating by the end of the day. I also got kicked out of Buffalo's that night. Seems the Barn is not fond of you talking smack in their bar. Whoda thunk it? Roll Tide.
Some really good players for Bama and Auburn this season. Santonio Beard had a huge game. You had Galloway,Beard, Zow, Carter, Watts, Milons, Ellington,Mcaddley, and so on. Auburn had Ronnie Brown, Cadillac Williams, Jason Campbell. I mean there was alot of good players here.
Too bad Zow didn't have a good game against Florida in '98. Bama had a chance late in the 4th quarter to win and Zow panicked and threw the game ending interception that sealed it for Florida.
+12106445 yea but he was a true freshman who wasn't even the starter that game and hadn't even taken any snaps before he came in during the 2nd quarter
I WAS HAPPY BAMA WON. U GUYS HELPED LSU THAT DAY AND 2 WEEKS LATER LSU AVENGED THOSE CIGAR SMOKING AUBIES 27 --14. JOSH REED TORE AUBURN UP. JOSH REED WHIPPED EVERY SECONDARY THAT YEAR.
Zow was ultra sharp this game. The game plan was executed perfectly. I remember the whole week before this game Fran wouldn't say if Watts was going to play or not. We found out later Watts had no chance of playing due to his injury. Auburn prepared for Watts and the option almost exclusively, and Bama used quick throws and spread AU out to hit them with the run up the middle.
Coach Fran left Bama for Texas A&M and had no success at all. It's all good because things might not have eventually led to Nick becoming coach if Fran had hung around.
Man, this was probably one of the poorest performances by an Auburn team ever with a lot on the line. Coach Tuberville could win some big games as underdogs, but also post performances like these. You never knew what you were going to get.
I was at that game. Zow had moments where I’d have compared his arm strength and releases to Marino. He was on fire that day. His passing opened the run and AU was toast. Honestly there was something in the air. The majority of crowd noise was us, the Bama fans. Electric for an away game. The score on the first play of the 4th, sent 50,000 AU fans home. It was great 😂
So I swear I'm not crazy, but for some reason I distinctly remember some sort of trick play in this game where Andrew Zow caught a pass down in the red zone. I've never seen a full replay of the game since I watched it live though. Only highlights, and it's never in the actual highlights. Which makes me think it's some sort of false memory or something haha. Can anyone confirm that this happened?
Alabama wasn't good years. Probation killed Bama and that cousin, family, employees, Alumni getting scholarships hurt Alabama. So many athletes got passed over for small school athletes.
I agree and I don’t understand it either. He gets hurt and Tyler Watts has a decent day vs Southern Miss in 1999 and all of the sudden, it’s like DuBose kept trying to force Watts in as a starter. When Watts got hurt in 2000, Zow had some good games, but that team was a disaster. Then, Fran comes in and brings the option back. Watts was a good fit for that offense, but Bama was 3-5 when Watts gets hurt again. Zow leads Bama to 4 straight wins. It was clear to me that Zow was the better player.
