Carolina has a great PR Department.

[GamecockJAC]

Football team is very mediocre!

 

[Bud Wiser]

Got the stadium. Got the facilities. Got the fanbase. Everything about this program says big time except the product itself. And it’s been this way for 118 years, with the exception of 5 seasons. I don’t think any of us are fooled anymore. Once you grow pubes, you know the reality. But for some reason we just keep coming back.

 

[irmococky]

Got the stadium. Got the facilities. Got the fanbase. Everything about this program says big time except the product itself. And it’s been this way for 118 years, with the exception of 5 seasons. I don’t think any of us are fooled anymore. Once you grow pubes, you know the reality. But for some reason we just keep coming back.

It’s sad right

 

[PELION]

I think there are a lot if people fooled . Coming into the game the optimism was flowing after wins over very bad Florida and Auburn teams . The ugly loss to Missouri was glossed over and most though a win over an injury riddled Clemson was coming. The defense was 95th against the run and the offense waS still awful yet optimism was overflowing ?
seems to me that reality is still escaping t he grasps of most fans ! Clemson was a bigger, stronger , and way better coached team and it showed . Anyone with half a brain saw this coming a mile away

 

[usccocksfan]

It’s quite simple. We aren’t making the right coaching hires. People will point to history, curses, and other theories for why we have underperformed over the years, but objectively and pragmatically, our issue lies in our coaching hires.

Holtz and Spurrier won here. It wasn’t easy for them, but they did. We still continue to recruit well, yet we lose to teams whose talent -on paper- is of lesser caliber. That is coaching.

We need to collectively stop believing this is our destiny because “the chicken curse” or “it’s the way it’s always been”, and begin adding up the investments. The facilities, beautiful flagship university, stadium, great fans, strong resources. These represent millions in investments yet we get little in return for them. So, who’s accountable?

Three bodies accountable for this: BOT, University President, and the Athletics Director.

While I think there were potentially more proven head coaching candidates we could have pursued, I think Shane is creating a positive culture here. The question will be, will he be prudent and tough enough to make changes to the offense over the next week? To go from where we were last year running the ball to now, with largely the same players, is not moving in the right direction. It’s not personal. It’s coaching and it’s a job that’s simply not getting done.