gamecock stock said:

SFC, the question is will the "powers that are" @USC pull the trigger at the end of this season. It matters not what you and I think. I'm not sure they would. Of course, we fired Jim Carlen (one of the best coaches we ever had, imho....damn that Holderman) and then fired Richard Bell a year later. Who knows?

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Ward Jr said:

Money.

Quick history timeline:

+ Both teams go 8-5 in 2022. We're 40th in Total Offense that season. They are 30th.

+ We beat two top ten teams. They beat UK and lost to every other notable team.

+ Kiffin takes the stage openly begging for money -- Stating the system is rigged and the only way to compete against the better teams in the SEC is to buy up players.

+ Money flows in Oxford from all directions during their off-season and there are openly flaunting it.

+ While Ole Miss is buying up the planet, we're watching our 2022 stars walk out the door.

The rest is history.

Do you honestly believe Wells wouldn't have stayed at USC if we had offered him $250K more than other teams?

Please.

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gamecock stock said:

SFC, the question is will the "powers that are" @USC pull the trigger at the end of this season. It matters not what you and I think. I'm not sure they would. Of course, we fired Jim Carlen (one of the best coaches we ever had, imho....damn that Holderman) and then fired Richard Bell a year later. Who knows?

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Ward Jr said:

Sanders ran hard but he's more a finesse back.

We really needed Anderson's size in the backfield last night to run through tackles like he was doing the 2nd half of last season.

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Robhawk29 said:

Did the coaching staff really have to call a timeout at the end of the game to explain how to run out the clock? Anyone?

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BattleshipTexas said:

Definitely need better qb play

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Ward Jr said:

Ashford is marginal. However, he's also a RS Senior who threw the ball around for Auburn in 2022. Mediocrity by committee.

Are we completely priced out of the quality SEC QB at this point?

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section907 said:

Did we win? Asking for everyone that only reads this board.

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section907 said:

Did we win? Asking for everyone that only reads this board.

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uscwatson21 said:

He was our highest paid player. We weren’t being cheap with him.

And he said he left because of the QB situation…

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Southern Fried Chicken said:

PLEASE STOP POSTING . YOU are igorant

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sclawman77 said:

Tanner has single handedly changed the football and baseball programs for the worse with multiple poor hires. Neither program is the worst in the country in their sport by any means but the expectations have been clearly lowered. Football program was contending in the SEC east and playing in good bowl games. 12 years later, we're missing bowl games and hoping somehow we can pull out six wins for the upcoming seasons. In baseball we were going to Omaha regularly and competing for national titles. 12 years later, we're getting shutout by James Madison at a road regional to end the season and Omaha is a distant memory. Tanner has tarnished the two Carolina sports I grew up loving the most (I root for men's basketball too which has underperformed on Tanner's watch too). I'm hopeful he knows how to hire the right baseball coach but past decisions for the past 12 years (hiring 3 crap coaches and 1 that's still questionable) don't give me the best feeling about it either. I know Tanner is sending a message by firing Kingston that our baseball program has expectations and mediocrity is unacceptable (which I agree with) but how many more unsuccessful hires is he allowed to continue to make? If Beamer eventually gets let go too, does Tanner get yet another chance to butcher that program some more? It's getting ridiculous.

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sclawman77 said:

Tanner has single handedly changed the football and baseball programs for the worse with multiple poor hires. Neither program is the worst in the country in their sport by any means but the expectations have been clearly lowered. Football program was contending in the SEC east and playing in good bowl games. 12 years later, we're missing bowl games and hoping somehow we can pull out six wins for the upcoming seasons. In baseball we were going to Omaha regularly and competing for national titles. 12 years later, we're getting shutout by James Madison at a road regional to end the season and Omaha is a distant memory. Tanner has tarnished the two Carolina sports I grew up loving the most (I root for men's basketball too which has underperformed on Tanner's watch too). I'm hopeful he knows how to hire the right baseball coach but past decisions for the past 12 years (hiring 3 crap coaches and 1 that's still questionable) don't give me the best feeling about it either. I know Tanner is sending a message by firing Kingston that our baseball program has expectations and mediocrity is unacceptable (which I agree with) but how many more unsuccessful hires is he allowed to continue to make? If Beamer eventually gets let go too, does Tanner get yet another chance to butcher that program some more? It's getting ridiculous.

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GoCocksFight2021 said:

Other than the QB, all the skill players are gone or suspended. And of course, they rolled off our schedule for this year.

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Ward Jr said:

Gavin's CA dystopia is the gift that keeps on giving.

For anyone who hasn't visited/lived in the SF area, Union Square was always one of the safest.

It's basically like the 5th Ave area of NYC with prime shopping, etc.

Now they have boarded up storefronts everywhere and NFL players being shot in the middle of the day.

It was also reported this week that California has lost billions just this year in tax revenue from people fleeing.

What a multi-year disaster to what was otherwise a beautiful state.

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Ward Jr said:

You and I both know Wells didn't take some big pay cut to pay for Ole Miss. It probably was the opposite.

If it was close to similar, then yes -- going to play for a publicized high paid team with the potential to win it all makes total sense in terms of both environment and NFL status.

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Southern Fried Chicken said:

Dear Sir,

I LOVE CAROLINA! We are a JOKE on the football field! We require a change

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gamecock stock said:

Well, we have to do better. When considering the quality of the opponent, I don't recall ever seeing a more pitiful opening game for us. The team had no "life" in them. What's our S&C Coordinator doing? What's our OL coach doing? Urban Meyer says those 2 positions are the most important on a team.

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DarkHorse2001 said:

He also threw the ball several feet over a leaping 6'5" Nyck Harbor's extended arms. Harbor took a hard hit and came up limping. Sellers had a panic look in the pocket. He was searching to escape the pocket instead of going through his progressions. He might be good at running the option. He looked so out of place in the pocket.

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