bloodbath

After another wild rivalry weekend, the Southeastern Conference reached the end of its bloodbath of a regular season without a single unbeaten team.

But Crow likens this period to the Civil War, when the government supported the creation of land-grant universities: “an unbelievable opportunity,” he says, despite “bloodbaths going on all of the time.”

Continuing with the toughness theme, Cronin compared playing Arizona to “World War III,” “a bloodbath” and a fight that would let his players know how they measure up against another heavyweight team.

“Kids are dying, and the audience has paid money to see a bloodbath. Maybe people can leave with a sense of ‘Are we part of it?

Their epitaph was the greatest bloodbath in American history.