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Dye breathes life into Georgia-Bama game

By Pat Forde
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, October 2, 2002

With a forceful push from Steve Spurrier, the Southeastern Conference came to embrace the five-wide-receiver set, the first-down pass and the allure of wide-open football. But when the going gets too fancy, the league can always count on hearing from its Caveman Emeritus, Pat Dye. Dye coached Auburn during a different era -- the Pleistocene -- and coached it well. He lived at the corner of Block & Tackle and hasn't moved. He still rattles around the SEC media circuit on occasion, sounding like ...

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