Practices are more organized, faster paced and physical than the last 15 years. Our spring game actually showed kids trying to make plays and improvement, even Lambert, who other than one game last year looked like a poor FCS qb looked much better.
Now, for your question, what are Gamecock fans basing their optimism on? Muschamp took a team who had won 2 NC in the 5 years before he got there and had them out of bowl season by his 3rd year and fired by end of his 4th after back to back 7-6 seasons. He did this with far more talent all over the field than he will have at USC this fall. He did all of this with recruiting classes that were consistently in the top 5, most experts thought he would have to rebuild his reputation at a small school, yet AU paid him a huge salary to come in as DC which he improved from giving up 347 points for the 14 season, to 338 for the 15 season. The classes he had to work with at AU were ranked 10th, 9th, 9th and 7th. Meanwhile the classes he has to work with at USC were 16th, 16th, 19th and 28th. I would think UGA fans have at least as much reason to be optimistic about the upcoming season with an unproven head coach as USC fans do with a coach who was fired playing against the same teams with much better talent. Muschamp has always been one to boast about what he was going to do, but never lived up to it, when he took over at UF he said he would never lose to UGA, that didn't work out too well for him. Truth is, Kirby was set to be the coach at USC and UGA hired him first and he would have been a hugely popular choice there too.
