Live updates from eight South Carolina players and Shane Beamer expected to speak today:
Jordan Burch
Eric Douglas
Jovaughn Gwyn
Brad Johnson
Mohamed Kaba
Kai Kroeger
Juju McDowell
Spencer Rattler

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Will have some of HawgBeat Publisher Mason Choate's insights on the game on our Thursday preview, as well as the From The Otherside Feature story that will run tomorrow morning.

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Hearing blackout conditions for Williams-Brice this weekend.

Looks like Sir Big Spur is going to get a new name. There are some great discussions going on about this. Personally, if they switch to Cock Commander, I'm buying every bit of merchandise I can find and giving it to my gay friends!

I'm trying something new for the website where I go into some hidden numbers. I did play charting on different segments of the field, logged every Beamer fourth down decision, every third down target/carry/tackle/PBU and some more.

For subscribers, give this a read and then I need your help. Are there any other stats that you can't find in a regular box score that you want me to keep track of? Only caveat is it has to be something I can reasonably deduce from a either a play-by-play log or a highlight pack.

Thanks y'all!

Iowa State and South Carolina are making an early impact on Bates' recruitment. Update on Rivals:

This is a football thread, not gamecock quidditch or whatever those snooze buttons are spamming the board about.

Anywho, per my affluent but slightly retarded sources on the inside of the Gamecock athletic department, next week we are gonna have..,

Kombucha Caleb:

Outdoorsy style hat that isn’t related to sports.
(bonus points for not double dipping though ie wearing a gamecock hat with a gamecock polo. nothing says loser like double dipping team gear) but it’s still a crunchy granola hat that’s a little odd placed within the confines of a tailgate tent.

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Brand New Under Armor White Gamecock Polo.
Not bad but obviously he stopped by Addams bookstore on the way to the tailgate.

LL Bean outdoorsy shorts.
Almost like a bathing suit. i’m sure it’s great for hiking the appalachian trail. Talking actual hiking not Mark Sanford stuff here.

But as we all know we aren’t hiking unless it’s down the railroad track to meet some friends at another tailgate. Note the hat and shorts are a huge miss match to the polo and hat. Small Bonus points here for finding a way to keep the gonads cool in famously hot Columbia.

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Shoes:
Chaco’s. Very odd choice for gameday and can easily stub your toe if not careful. Also i’m nearly certain he has amazonian type feet and doesn’t trim his nails regularly. That look is attractive in the Northeast during the summer like northern Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire.

Those states bring us to our conclusion of

gameday drink choice.
Kombucha Caleb is showing up at your tailgate with some blueberry ipa based beer that literally no one wants and he brought as a conversation piece to the tailgate. Unfortunately, this plan backfires as no one cares or wants to try it or much less even talk about why such a thing is inside the cooler. Small Bonus points here however as no one will steal your beers from your cooler and also those beers are like 9% alcohol or something ridiculous.

Stephen Alexander.

Steven but with a ph has an uphill battle however you wish to chalk it up. Has two first names like a Nascar driver which will strike a chord with 20% of all fan bases in the South East, especially those Darlington roots Gamecock fans. Bonus points for fighting the good fight though.

No Hat. Respectable. 🫡
Only downside to this is if you have long hair and sweat a bunch. If you don’t, easy to pull off l suppose.

Plain South Carolina Garnet Tee Shirt
Probably one of the worst single pieces one could wear on gameday. This shirt is probably Champion or some off brand i’ve never heard of. I think Champion, like Carhartt, is now cool and overpriced for the Gen Z’ers.

Not sure there but i am sure that it doesn’t do much to separate you from the everyday sidewalk fans. no worries though, as those days are few and far between within our fanbase as we went from Spurrier calling plays to Roper and eventually Satterfield.

Almost enough for me to want to actually read a Gamecock quidditch article. What’s up snitches!

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Cargo Shorts. Don’t need to type much here but I know Stephen has at least three pairs. Guess if you’re in the media booth they’re great for storage. doubt GamecockScoop has gotten their credentials yet for the booths however.

Shoes.
Stephen is rocking Asics running shoes that match nothing in his wardrobe. Sneakily athletic, do not run routes or throw the ball around the tailgate with him. Often these types can throw the ball a country mile but have little to no accuracy. Occasionally they’ll get lucky on the accuracy part. He might embarass you and you do not want to get shown up by the dude wearing cargos and eyeglasses outdoors with no shade.

Drink Choice
This is where Stephen makes up ground but once again sneakily or accidentally. As he does not really register on the social scales, he copies what his Dad drank. His dad drank Yuengling. Now Yuengling used to be god awful like PbR but they changed the formula to compete with St. louis beers and now make a fine beer. He’s going to show up with an entire case of yuengling to your tailgate that he walked and carried all the way from Bates house to Williams Brice Stadium. Sneaky strong shoulders and arms kind of related to chucking the pickskin around.

That's big! Supposed to happen by 2026.

I sat in the south upper. It was next to impossible to hear the sound. When I heard it, it was muffled. How was the sound on the lower deck? I couldn’t understand the ref, the announcer, or clearly hear sandstorm, etc.

anyone else experience this?

Beamer's approach to the program from day 1 has been about home, family and establishing relationships. If you look at the way the team performed from game 1 til now, if you are objective, you can see that massive progress was made in that time span, as well as year over year, in various areas; effort from start to finish, defensive play overall(especially at DB), special teams, Josh Vann and attitude. Not to mention we beat the Vegas o/u on wins by a sizeable margin.

However, we regressed pretty much across the board on offense. In my mind that can be attributed to some of the following; play calling/lack of creativity, regression in talent at WR(though Vann did emerge), injuries at RB to start the year, and, the most obvious, QB play. That said, we started the year with a GA at QB, that was backed up by a D3 transfer, WR's who we all thought would plain suck, a RB room without its perceived best runner(Harris) and its most talented back coming off an ACL tear(Lloyd), an OL learning a new scheme and the offense as a whole learning a new scheme. Not to mention the fact that said system was probably set up to have Doty, with his diverse skill set, running it. On the other hand, you returned most of what was a decent o-line last year, Zaquandre and Juju were nice surprises and you had a TE room that was supposed to be stellar. The O-line struggling is the most perplexing issue to me but I, as a football layman, do not have the ability to dissect what was wrong there from a scheme standpoint.

I can see it both ways but I am currently in the camp of giving Satterfield another year to work it out. Which OC, in their right mind, is coming to coach here after we fire a guy(who seems respected in coaching circles) for failing at a job that he simply did not have the tools to do? The only way I can convince myself of firing Satt as a good move is if the inter-staff discord rumors are 100% true. Even then, who's coming here with our champagne expectations and Busch Ice roster? How can you promote an atmosphere of trust and family when you leave some family member behind at the first sight of trouble? How can the recruits who sign next week trust you after you let a coordinator go as the ink dries on their LOI(no way we are telling recruits Satt is gone and X coordinator will be here 1/1/22 either, that's nonsense)?

Considering all of that, please put forth your rationale for bringing in a new OC. Wouldn't you like to see Satt work with a healthy Doty(think of his production in the UGA game when barely healthy) and Max Johnson/Rattler(or someone similar) instead of a guy who played D3 ball last year? Even if he's working with Brown, wouldn't you like to see what he could do with another off-season under his belt and an injection of talent in a WR room that seems devoid of it outside of Vann?

Nm

We'll hear from the head coach in about 10 minutes over the phone. Stick here for live updates.

#6 in the country. Maybe Sam Houston is better than we think. Tamu looks pedestrian at best. Their qb looks Southern Conference level

Dropped a match 3-1 to Wake Forest on Saturday.

Did I miss something in the off-season?

In Parker White's earlier days at South Carolina making a field goal 50 yards or longer was like kryptonite to White. Last night Jeter demonstrated that he is immune to kryptonite. Also, that was a superman like punt that Kroeger did in the first quarter.

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