"We're NOT Professionals!!!. We just wanna be PAID like we are!"

Wait-a-minute. That doesn't match-up with those letters!

Neither does the Talent Level with what they're being paid, my friend. Neither does the Talent Level.

SC gets Kentucky and Florida

Texas gets OU and A&M

A&M gets Texas and LSU

Alabama: Auburn, Tennessee
Arkansas: Ole Miss, Missouri
Auburn: Alabama, Georgia
Florida: Georgia, South Carolina
Georgia: Florida, Auburn
Kentucky: South Carolina, Vanderbilt
LSU: Mississippi State, Texas A&M
Ole Miss: Mississippi State, Arkansas
Mississippi State: Ole Miss, LSU
Missouri: Oklahoma, Arkansas
Oklahoma: Missouri, Texas
South Carolina: Kentucky, Florida
Tennessee: Vanderbilt, Alabama
Texas: Texas A&M, Oklahoma
Texas A&M: Texas, LSU
Vanderbilt: Tennessee, Kentucky

A lot to unpack from today at Founders Park. Here's a full box score and some comments from Kingston on the highlights and where the team stands coming out of fall baseball. 99 days til the real thing!

A&M is coming off a bye week, and had back to back super close losses to Bama and Tennessee, both games they coulda/shoulda won. They have an NFL D line. Which pretty much end’s our chances of a win. But their QB is out. So how bad will it be? I see A&M wins 28-10. Their offense is struggling lately.

And how will 2-6 feel? We havent been 2-6 in a non-Covid season since……????? We started 2-6 in the SEC-only 10 game schedule in 2020. Other than Covid season….I think this will be the worst start since 1999. Should finish better than 2015 and 2020 though, so we may tie 2019 at 4-8 as the worst Gamecocks teams of the millennium so far. Im not counting out an upset over UK or Clemson at home though so who knows

The early signing period for the non-football sports opened today, and South Carolina baseball has already had some baseball commits for the Class of 2024 sign on the dotted line:

Brady Jones: Right-handed pitcher; Gaffney, SC:
Login to view embedded media
Cade Pilgrim: Left-handed pitcher; Clover, SC:
Login to view embedded media
Zach Russell: Infielder; Charleston, SC:
Login to view embedded media
Cole Greer: Right-handed pitcher, Moncks Corner, SC:
Login to view embedded media
Riley Goodman: Right-handed pitcher, Memphis, TN:
Login to view embedded media

You can join the chat here to give your thoughts: https://southcarolina.forums.rivals.com/chat/


But as always, the chat will auto populate here in a read only format as well.

Jax State is 7-2. They lost 31-14 to Liberty (coached by Chadwell in year 1) and Coastal (built by Chadwell). Our roster is more talented, by far, than both of those teams.

This game today is as close to a head to head comparison as we can get of Rays decision.

I think we will wake up in the 2nd half. But 14-14 with 6:30 in 2nd quarter isnt a good look.

Todd just called it the "shAtgun"
.smh

More electric and exciting. These girls look like they've been playing together for years.

Magic Johnson tweeted during the Carolina/Notre Dame contest that the greatest play he has ever seen, including college and the men's Pro's was just made by Carolina Freshman MyLaysia Fulwiley.

Don't know how to even describe it. Down the Lane, past 3 defenders ... "a twisting, behind-the-back, reverse hook-shot?" ..... LOL ... you know, the Blind Squirrel kinda shot.

FYI: YouTube TV has the game available on replay.

Login to view embedded media
Login to view embedded media

What, in your opinion, will rid us of him? A few more 5-7's?, 4-8's??, 3-9's??? ... Screw the Pooch???

I have 2 tickets in 301 row 34 seat 3&4. $30 each
Text 803-270-4820 if interested.

Alan should be back from Paris tomorrow, but that's why we didn't have live updates today.

That is all.

2 Vanderbilt tickets for sale. Section 5 row 4. Text 706-399-1436

He had one scheduled at one point. We'll see if he schedules another one.

Carolina up 9-7 at the 15 min mark in first half.
Ball movement has been excellent for Carolina and they are really making Upstate work for everything on the opposite end.

PARIS — One more for y'all from Paris. Te-Hina PaoPao spoke off podium with just the media gathered in Paris, and Dawn Staley did the same for a few minutes after her podium press conference. So for some exclusive quotes from the 100-71 win over Notre Dame, here is a little bit more before I had back stateside.

Te-Hina PaoPao:

On how her first game felt:
"It was great. It felt like homecourt advantage, there were so many FAMs out there. I asked Raven [Johnson] in the fourth like, 'dang, imagine how CLA is and how we're playing.' It was a great experience to be able to play in Paris and play in front of a lot of FAMs."

On helping get the team back in the game:
"I think it was just a little bit of the jitters. A lot of us were just ready to unleash everything after scouting them for a really long time. I think everyone was just getting the flow of the game, and once we found the flow it just opened up the gates."

On hitting the early 3-pointers to help South Carolina stay in it:
"That's my job. I need to be really good at my job this season, so I'm excited for that."

On playing with MiLaysia Fulwiley:
"Man, Lay, she's a special one. She's a hooper. You hear she's a gamer; that's what she is. I definitely didn't think she saw me during that play [her third quarter no-look pass], but she was like, 'I saw you, I saw you.' And I was like, 'oh, yeah, you did.' She's just an awesome player to play with, I can't wait to see what she develops into as a player. She's just an awesome player to play with, and she's just so young. She's going to have a great year."

On if she's ever seen anything like Fulwiley's first half layup:
"Oh no. In practice she does it all the time. You heard coach in there [the press room] saying she turns it over, but when she has her mind set, she knows what she's going to do."

On taking no-look passes:
"Just being another guard and knowing how Lay loves to play, it just makes my job a little easier knowing she's going to get the pass to me. She has those eyes. When she knows she's going to pass you have to be ready, whether you're a guard or a post. You have to keep your head on a swivel."

On the balance between her fun personality and her seriousness in-game:
"I love this job. And when you love something you just keep smiling, and when you're locked in there's another level to it. You've just always got to have good spirits no matter how you approach things. You've just go to stay locked in the game and I hope that I can do that throughout this whole season."

On South Carolina rotating who guarded Hannah Hidalgo in the second quarter:
"Just getting her different looks. She's a ballplayer, she's a dog. She's another one in this freshman class; that freshman class is amazing. But she's a dog. We just had to give her different looks, and it worked in our favor."

On playing with Kamilla Cardoso:
"I don't know if you've heard this, but she's a cheat code. She's really good with her hands, she really good with her feet, she can really balance herself really well and can really score the ball well. When she's dominant, she's dominant on both sides of the floor.

On what this win does for the team's confidence:
"We've just got to take it one day at a time, one game at a time. This was a great win for us, but after 24 hours we're on to Maryland. We're just focusing on the next day and getting on our flight back to home, which we're very excited about."

On grading her own defensive performance:
"I'm giving it a B. Maybe because of that one foul I ahd in the first minute or 30 seconds of the game, that's probably it."