Rich Rod would love to come to SC and whip Clemsons ass and in the process make us relevant again.
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That's what Ray Tanner gets paid a big salary to figure out. He should be working on this now.
Hilarious!! I read that SS wanted to retire last year but Tanner talked him out of it=shades of Lou and McGee. I would hope USC could get Baylor's or TCU's coach. Offer them enough money and anyone can be had even Saban or Urban.
Not really sure what else to say. The team is a straight up dumpster fire. We have NO receivers outside of Cooper, our QBs are terrible and they can't determine that Mitch isn't remotely an SEC caliber starter, our defense was softer than Charmin in the first half, and the play calling is still a problem.
Couple the awful coaching with the completely lackadaisical recruiting and you find a team that probably won't crack the top 25 this year. We'd be lucky to get bowl eligible.
Don't want Charlie. Good guy, coach, but not a good hire!charlie strong might be available pretty soon
Don't want Charlie. Good guy, coach, but not a good hire!
I think some of the negative posters "Need To Go." Some of you are a bunch of whining little girls and the program doesn't need your fair weather knee jerk loyalty. Love the program or leave it. Support it win or lose. But for the love of God, please stop saying this and that has to go after one loss. Everybody was disappointed in the end result last night. But that's the nature of college sports. But if you truly really are loyal Gamecock fans, think it's okay to be disappointed, frustrated, unhappy...but keep it to yourself...buy a notebook and journal about it privately. But there is no way that coming on a public forum and blasting coaches and players helps the program. Never has. Never will.
Chad Morris
I love the University of South Carolina, not Steve Spurrier. I'm really thankful for the great seasons he's given us, but we were bad last season and we lost to freakin' Kentucky for the second year in a row. I'm not seeing the playmakers being recruited like a DJ, Lattimore, Ace Sanders and the like. We've got Coop and a bunch of complete unknowns at the receiver position, a QB who looked 100% OVERWHELMED in the spotlight (btw, how did the coaches NOT realize he isn't quality?), and a defense that takes a half-too-long to make adjustments.
Granted this team may actually be easier to watch than last year, but if we're in for another mediocre season, why not just let Spurrier go? He's not getting any younger. The "negative recruiting" against us with regards to his age isn't going away, ever. We need to make a change while we still have some goodwill left from those 11 win seasons before it's too late. We have the resources and facilities to attract a good coach. South Carolina is a school you CAN win at.
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The dominoes, as I see it (if you even care)
#1. Loss of Brad Lawing & Shane Beamer (though Beamer may not have been as critical, but BL was substantial)
#2. Continuing to give Steve Spurrier Jr. a job, much less putting him in charge of anything.
#3. After Connor Shaw was signed, every other QB signee has been a whiff SO FAR. Seems at least 1/3rd of QBs signed under Spurrier have transferred.
#4. Loss of Ellis Johnson
#5. A unusual rash of transfers, early departures for NFL and some recruiting mis-hits.
#6. More recently, the "2-3 years" comment
That's my honest opinion, not trying to take shots as a Clemson fan. I could be way off base.
The HBC did a great job here, but it's just not working anymore. The time has pretty much run out for him. He did a great job cleaning up the mess that was here before we got here, but I just don't see him being able to clean up a mess of his own making at this late stage of his career. I think it's about time give someone else a shot to right what it is that Spurrier has gotten wrong over the last few years. I don't think Spurrier is going to figure it out this time.
That's exactly where we're headed.Yeah. Let's return to our pre- Spurrier glory
That's exactly where we ARE headed as it stands now!!Yeah. Let's return to our pre- Spurrier glory
charlie strong might be available pretty soon
The negative recruiting started the day he took the job.
"He can't win at USC"
"He'll leave after 4 seasons"
"He will never win more than 8-9 games and be gone in 5 years"
This isn't something new. Like I've been telling taters for over 8 years now, keep predicting this is the year and eventually you'll be right.
Along with "That smells like fear"!!!
That's a pretty fair assessment.
1-Beamer was a great recruiter and coordinator, and a tireless worker. Lawing had more ties to NC schools and we did very well there when he was here. Some thought that Adams would be able to keep us in on a lot of NC schools but it just hasn't happened.
2-I think Jr could do better. Either way our mis-fires in recruiting fall squarely on his shoulders because he holds the title on coordinator. If anything is going to change it's up to him to make it happen.
3-Spurrier hasn't recruited top rated QB's since he's been here. But then again he looks for QB's that fit his mold and QB's that he thinks can take working for him. BTW...it's not like CU hasn't had some mis-fires at the QB position under Da-Blo and before under Bowden...i.e. "Parker could play for half the teams in the NFL", Korn, Harper, the Chad even though he seems to be doing OK at Ole Miss, etc.
4-EJ was good, but not great. And he had a lot of talent to work with. His refusal to blitz and bring pressure and his bend but don't break, corners playing 10 yards off the ball and always out of position giving up 3rd and forevers aren't missed very much. If not for the talent...well, SOS wouldn't have fired him. If not for the offer at SM he'd still be here and some of our fans would be screaming to fire him.
5-Again, every team has players that don;t pan out and transfer. Maybe when you get time you could better define the "rash" terminological application.
6-I think that comment was made without forethought and in the moment. SOS has addressed it, and if he had any intentions on retiring any time soon I don't believe he would have attempted to address it. If you don't know his DNA by now he's not a man that says things to make people happy, or would make a public rebuttal such as this if he doesn't intend to stand by it. Then again, I'm not 70 years ols with more money in my account than I'll ever spend and if he does flip and decide to walk away...as out of character as it would be...it would only be the 1st time in his life, and I'm sure it would be the last.
And just for the record, it ain't so bad to have a tiger fan around that isn't here just to take cheap shots. Even with the opportunity wide open you posted a respectful post with no low blows. Gives me a little more faith in humanity and the people internet, hahaha.
I say we go after Mark Stoops. He's beat our tail twice in a row.
I've given some thought to this issue over the weekend following the devastating loss Saturday night. Spurrier has done an unbelievable job elevating this football program, and we will always be indebted
to him. I've always supported Spurrier through the ups and downs through the years when the less
knowledgeable fan was ready to jump ship at the slightest sign of adversity. In a way it saddens me to say this, but I believe it's time at the end of the year for someone else to take over. I don't think it's going to get any better at this point, and that's exactly when you need to make a change to continue the growth of the program.
There is a time to judge the season and the state of the program, but it's not now after only 2 games.
Why can't people at least wait until it's inevitable that we're going to have a .500 or worse season, or if we improve with a different QB and go on to win 6 out of our next 8 before they go off the deep end...like most rational fans?
For me, it's not about what our record will be this season, it's more about the overall growth of our program. Last year we took a step back and certainly this year, in all likelihood, we will not improve either. I think the writing is definitely on the wall now that the program has peaked and needs someone else to build on whatThere is a time to judge the season and the state of the program, but it's not now after only 2 games.
Why can't people at least wait until it's inevitable that we're going to have a .500 or worse season, or if we improve with a different QB and go on to win 6 out of our next 8 before they go off the deep end...like most rational fans?
For me, it's not about what our record will be this season, it's more about the overall growth of our program. Last year we took a step back and certainly this year, in all likelihood, we will not improve either. I think the writing is definitely on the wall now that the program has peaked and needs someone else to build on what
Spurrier has done. Thanks to Spurrier, the college football nation knows that you "can" win at South Carolina. We need energy and passion, someone that still has something to prove and will work his ass off to accomplish it.
Hmmmmmmmmm. There's a thought! A good thought!Chad Morris
Try to get butch jones..Tennessee don't want him anymorewho would you suggest as a reasonable replacement OP? it's not like there's a lot of great coaches waiting to take over this shit show
NoTry to get butch jones..Tennessee don't want him anymore
Hmmmmmmmmm. There's a thought! A good thought!
We need to get on the rest of the gravy train that college football is on and get a high octane offense and not worry about being better than a top 50 defense.
Bama has even learned you can't stop the spread, you can only limit it to a certain degree.
There aren't any secrets anymore, all the schemes are out there and it seems the spread is the hardest to stop. Spurrier's scheme is good but QBs come out of high school running the spread, so Spurrier has a ton of work to do with them when they get here. Connor Shaw was coached up, and so was Dylan, but Connor was so good because he could get out of bad situations with his feet. That's where Dylan struggled.
Bottom line is unless you don't have the better talent on the field that night you can't win, at least not win consistently.
charlie strong might be available pretty soon
Because he can recruit like hell and, like Saban, help run the D. He'll hand the O over the GA. I'd take that combo in a skinny second. We'd have a minimum of 2 great recruiters leading both sides of the ball.Why?
Have you guys renamed Tillman Hall yet?Not really sure what else to say. The team is a straight up dumpster fire. We have NO receivers outside of Cooper, our QBs are terrible and they can't determine that Mitch isn't remotely an SEC caliber starter, our defense was softer than Charmin in the first half, and the play calling is still a problem.
Couple the awful coaching with the completely lackadaisical recruiting and you find a team that probably won't crack the top 25 this year. We'd be lucky to get bowl eligible.