About 12 years and a week ago I pulled into an enormous parking lot in Hoover, Alabama as an attendant on a Segway ushered me over to a slew of cars in an otherwise totally empty sea of asphalt (or cement… I don’t really remember). I got out of my car and found the ticket counter, and my journey began. I was about to watch Ole Miss march to a SEC championship, and yet I remember not expecting much at all.
I saw Chris Coghlan, Zack Cozart, C.J. Ketchum, Alex Presley, Justin Henry, and crew go 4-0 in Hoover, win the now-defunct marble pyramid trophy, and propel Ole Miss to another clean sweep in their own regional.