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Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

MizzouATL — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:43:13 -0000

completely agree. He can't get the players he needs to establish any depth. South Carolina -- the state -- is too small to sustain Clemson and the 'Cocks. Clemson does a great job of recruiting metro Atlanta and Georgia. The 'Cocks have trouble recruiting against Clempson and the other SEC and ACC schools that are recruiting the Palmetto State's top high school talent. They get a few good players, but not enough.

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

U.of S.C.1978 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:50:02 -0000

I read it SC's doggy. Did more research, my apologies to Kevin. "Thrice-weekly student newspaper of the University of South Carolina in Columbia. [Free registration required." I did notice the author is a "first year journalism student". I'm fixing to harness my prognosticating pony to that 19 year "fair weather fan". One more thing SC's doggy, Ya'll squeaked by us, good luck with that game plan the rest of the year.

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

aVoiceInSC — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:12:17 -0000

That article was published in The Daily Gamecock....

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

SCarDawg — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:02:42 -0000

Read This: Carolina sucks, and Spurrier will leave. The only ignorance is this: "If Gamecock fans knew anything about football, they would not be Gamecock Fans!"

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

U.of S.C.1978 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:21:29 -0000

Bleed Crimson is a real "soothsayer" isn't he? LOL LOL

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

U.of S.C.1978 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:13:05 -0000

Poke all the fun you want guys. You have compounded your own ignorance. Kevin did not check his source. You did not bother to check the source Kevin attributed. UWIRE is a site for aspiring student journalists, not a South Carolina newspaper. When the "ole ball coach" is done building his team, he will come around periodically, and run up the score on your team.

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

Regan — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:55:10 -0000

You know me, Joe; I like Tommy Bowden, at least until Clemson's season is over.

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

Tommy_Trojan — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:35:18 -0000

Badgerballer:

Now, that's what we need. A "go to guy" to cover for all of the other "go to guy's" who are always gone. I'm gonna bring that up in the next meeting. I'm sure that we can push this one thru much faster - as soon as the other "go to guy's" return from wherever they went to.

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

badgerballer — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:39:12 -0000

No worries, bro. I've got cha covered.

It so happens that I know a guy, that knows a guy, who's sister is married to a guy who lives next door to a lady who is the mail carrier of a dog groomer who rides in the same elevator every morning as the shoeshine guy in the main lobby of a building on the same street as a cop who's wife is actually the Executive Admin of THE MAN.

So I can pull some strings, push some buttons and get that paperwork moved along just a little bit faster than normal channels. We'll have that approval pushed through in HALF the regular time.

Trust me. I CAN do this.

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

Tommy_Trojan — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:02:53 -0000

badgerballer:

Page breaks have now been approved by upper management. Now, as soon as they all come back from whatever vacations that they are on, we can get all of the required paperwork signed - and implement that course of action. Might take several months to iron out all the details though -as I am sure that hundreds of meetings will have to take place.

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

badgerballer — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:40:34 -0000

TT,

You've got some great insights and mad knowledge on the college football front. But *man* do I wish you'd develop the habit of inserting some paragraph breaks into your posts!

You are (nearly) as long-winded as I am. Reading your posts from top to bottom would be so much easier....and probably more people would - if there were a little bit of white space.

Feel me?

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

aVoiceInSC — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:27:37 -0000

Yeah, I met his wife when I was there (nice lady). She loved living in Clemson. Irrelevant, but I thought I'd throw that in there. Then, it came out about 2 years ago that she'd love to live in Clemson again. I think that ship has sailed though.

How do you feel about Bobby Johnson or Gary Patterson?

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

Regan — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:05:44 -0000

You up to paying off a huge sum to Michigan to get RichRod? Rumor had it a year or so ago that he'd love to come back to Clemson.

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

TampaGator — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:12:55 -0000

The achilles heel of the spread, is speed. If your defense is fast enough, you should be able to neutralize the spread pretty easily. That's why no one tries it in the NFL--because their defenses are so fast all around.

Meyer's O still has problems with SEC speed; he's been fortunate with Tebow who, just by his freakish ability, is able to overcome those "problems." We have yet to see the spread work as designed (one of the things I love about Meyer is his ability to win, perhaps even win ugly, when his system doesn't work as intended--contrast that with Spurrier's futility when his system breaks down--some (e.g. Gator hippy)--might attribute that to talent desparity; I attribute it to discipline.

NOTE re. NFL: if you saw the Miami/NE shocker this weekend, you saw Coach Sporano run the "wild hog" formation, and have great success with it. Wild Hog ain't the spread, but, if a team is running a college formation like wild hog and having success against a great defense like NE's, we can expect more such experimentation in the future--which will likely include versions of the spread. So, maybe the old way of thinking will give way to the new.....

The irony with Meyer's issues with the spread--and Spurrier's issues with his system ("fun & gun")--is that both systems are designed to leverage inferior talent to compete with and/or beat superior talent. In Meyer's case, his offense is dependent on superior talent (what would our offense look like without Tebow?); maybe in Spurrier's case, his system could be more successful, if he had superior talent--but it's definitely malfunctioning now, with fair to middl'n talent.

Hypo 1: How would Spurrier's system work with USCw's (Trojan) players in the PAC 10?

Hyop 2: Could Pete Carroll win with Spurrier's players in South Carolina, v. SEC?

GO GATORS!!

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

Ramblin' Gator — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:44:33 -0000

Jerry Glanville

Dear God, I was hoping to never hear or read that name again. He's one of the main reasons I'm no longer an NFL fan. Sorry, but I like SC and the SEC too much to wish JG on them.

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

Tommy_Trojan — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:21:04 -0000

blackdawg:

I think that the Trojans would cover every time. That's funny. Certainly, I would want to double and triple bag, while we were poundin' that chicken.

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

Tommy_Trojan — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:14:51 -0000

TG:

Okay! I can go with that. It's just that in the 2-3 games I've watched this year, and many others in the last few years, USC is always throwing the ball. They do try and run on occasion, but of course, they only pick up 2-3 yards on the play. I don't see a fullback that is punishing either. It just doesn't seem as if there is any emphysis on "smash-mouth" football. Man, the guy is playing in today's SEC. He's a "finesse coach". Wrong conference for that today. He got away with it at Florida because he had introduced something that nobody was very used to - and he had speed. Now, he doesn't have the speed that the southern most teams have. So, what should you do? Well, hate to say it, but it looks like Big 10 style football could be in order. He's never had a real QB. He's had a few really good WR's in Williamson and Rice - but one great WR at a time isn't gonna get it done. You need three of them at least. I say he'd be better off to pound the rock. Auburn pulls this off pretty well. They don't ever have great QB's and WR's - but their emphysis has always been on moving the chains on the ground. It keeps that defense fresh, kills clock, and keeps every game winable. I understand that it is gonna be very tough to rise to the top of the SEC. That's my only contention for baggin' Alabama at all right now. Urban Meyer jumped on board a program that was already real close. Look at the problems that Arkansas is gonna have. SOS should have understood that he was never gonna be able to do what he did at Florida at South Carolina. He should have taken some of that "old school SEC" style of football philosophy, and implemented some kinda offense, that would have allowed him to control the game. He has not been able to do that. And, Bobby Petrino may find it very tough to do at Arkansas also. Let's see. Everybody wants to do what Urban Meyer is doing at Florida. That's all the rage these days. But, what they don't seem to understand, is that the Gators have the recruiting base to bring in the kinda speed that is required to pull this off. Eventually, everybody is gonna figure out how to slow that "spread" down. That is the history of this game. If Meyer adjusts - Florida continues to win. If not - they won't.

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

aVoiceInSC — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:47:55 -0000

Allegedly Bowden benefits most from his Christian ideals. Quite a few of our recruits cite that as being the reason that they signed.

TB certainly benefits from his ties to Florida and Alabama, but he has done a good job keeping players in South Carolina. A few still get out, like Prince Miller and AJ Green to Georgia, but most are staying now. I really don't know how much TB really has to do with the recruiting though. We've got a couple of young assistants, Dabo Swinney, David Blackwell, and Billy Napier, that are actually the guys who get credited with bringing them in. If there was a way to keep that trio, and dump TB, I'd love it.

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

aVoiceInSC — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:42:42 -0000

LOL. I think one day they will wish that they didn't let him get away. That day will probably be when Notre Dame hires "The Skipper" to replace King Hippo.

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

blackdawg — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:37:52 -0000

I would agree, Bowden is better than Goff. He has sustained a much more consistent program longer, for sure. Goff, though was originally a good recruiter. After consistently coming up short Goff no longer could recruit. He also had Tenn and FL in his back yard all the time. Don't you think Bowden has benefitted some from Florida State and others falling off a bit?

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

aVoiceInSC — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:40:35 -0000

From your post:
"it may become fair game when someone triggers intelligence as an issue"
From my post, that you replied to:
"Saying "your a moron" implies that you are more intelligent than your target."

So....what point are you trying to make exactly?

If you point out lack of intelligence without displaying much, that's irony.

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

aVoiceInSC — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:23:07 -0000

I would've loved to have done it already. It really needs to be done now. Bowden seems more like Ron Zook than he does Goff. Zook could always get the players, he just couldn't go very far with them.

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

TampaGator — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:14:51 -0000

"your v. you're" (like "their v. they're") is hardly "butchering" the language; it's a "typo;" and this isn't professional correspondence here; it's a blog.

Furthermore, I don't care how ironic it is, failing to include an apostrophe in phonetically identical words, when the gist is crystal clear...pointing that out as the sole or primary point of a post...just not very clever, or relevant.

I'll concede as above to Observer, it may become fair game when someone triggers intelligence as an issue....but it still comes off as lame and desperate.

It's so much more effective to show that you're intelligent enough to grasp the gist notwithstanding the form, and address the substance, than to sound like a brown-nosing weasel, and cry foul over a f$%&n typo. Hence grammar posts always reak of dodging the issues.

Again, my personal pet peeve. If you want to continue playing grammar police, you'll forgive me if I pounce on such posts like a cat on a mouse--especially after my afternoon bucket of expresso...

GO GATORS!!

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

blackdawg — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:14:02 -0000

South Carolina brings the Jr. Holtz back and he develops the "Run and Skip" that confuse defenses nationwide. He becomes the envy of all living coaches and is affectionately known by his admirers as "The Skipper." East Coast meets West Coast USC's annually and the Trojan/Chicken rivalry is borne.

Re: Is it time for South Carolina to boot Spurrier?

blackdawg — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:49:17 -0000

Man, do it now while you got talent, don't wait...Goff coached us out of players, Donnan brought back the players..........and Richt coached them up, 13 - 1 SEC championship with Donnan's boys. It takes longer when the cupboards bare.