RB Respect Month Vol. 2, Day 30: Steve Slaton introduces himself to America (2006 Sugar Bowl)
There's speed, and then there's Steve Slaton speed.
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Welcome to day 30 of Running Back Respect Monthâ„¢! Yesterday, Oregon's LaMichael James showed Stanford he was far more than just a speed back in 2010. Here's where we're at today, and how the rest of the month looks:
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Today: Steve Slaton vs. Georgia (2006 Sugar Bowl)
RB Respect Month Vol. 2, Day 30: Steve Slaton introduces himself to America (2006 Sugar Bowl)
One of the biggest lies millennial college football fans tell the world is how much they watched West Virginia when Steve Slaton and Pat White were there. Outside of Mountaineers fans or anyone who was knee-deep in Big East Football in the mid-2000s, I'm not buying that you watched them every week. That's not because they weren't worth it (they clearly were), but more because so many of their games at that point were either in weird time slots, on exclusively in regional areas, or sometimes only broadcast on ESPN Plus - back when it was Pay-Per-View, not a streaming service. I know that because I once spent two months digging through the archives of every game they played in that era and making career highlight reels of a bunch of them, including White and Slaton:
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WVU's national profile definitely changed as the Slaton/White era went on, but you really had to be locked in to have followed them closely in their freshman season of 2005. It didn't take the SEC-Champion Georgia Bulldogs long to find out just how for real White and the 10-1 Mountaineers were in that year's Sugar Bowl:
