Dude, yes he was. I was actually thinking that as I was typing. That dude, like they say in Tommy Boy, could sell a ketchup ice cream cone to an Eskimo. Man he was a snake oil salesman. He and Jimbo, man. Kirby is just a whining taint, and the refs shit their pants with Saban, but Mack and Jimbo are two of the best snake oil salesmen I've ever seen in my life. They could nab 5* after 5* with the gift of gab, but then after they got their titles they just put their feet up. We did have Colt, but he was recruited during the VY-era, but his o-line, just like Jimbo's were absolute trash. The only difference is we still had Colt and Shipley who literally willed our team to the NC, and everyone knows had Colt not gone down we would have whipped their asses. Even the Bama players admit it, which is kind of shocking.
On a side note, during the Big XII CCG, I don't think, even to this day, I've ever seen a more dominant player in CFB than Suh. Suh was what Aaron Donald was in the NFL. Just an unstoppable machine. He made Chris Hall, David Snow, and DJ Jones bend so far down as he climbed over them that they were limber enough to lick their own assholes. He tossed them around like they were a middle school girls soccer team.