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Missed the mark on the Nick Saban question. Now the question becomes who replaces him. I say there is going to be a coaching vacancy at Clemson. I think it will first be offered to Kirby Smart and he will decline. Lane Kiffin keeps waiting by the phone but it never rings. I hope Smart stays at Georgia. It may be time for a raise to keep him there. In any event the vacancy shouldn't remain open very long.
I think it doesn't affect the top tier teams, so the Georgias and Alabamas of the world will continue on as if nothing has changed. The bottom teams, however, will find depths they never thought was possible. We are seeing it happening right now. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. We'll see this continue until the NCAA, if still in existence, makes changes to this current runaway program.
I'll give you an example of how things are changing. The fringe teams in the conference, like South Carolina, live and die behind the dedication to the program. SC only keeps top rated players by the concept of buying into the "loyalty" to the program. That entire way of running a program has been closed, with the advent of the transfer portal. No more loyalty as it is now only about money. The fringe programs, like South Carolina, can't keep the players they need to be able to compete, and I get that. So from this standpoint, I get the comment.
sometimes it's just funny what some people come up with. It is so subjective. The OC calls plays that don't work and he is a bum. He calls plays that do work and Oliver Stone comes out of the woodwork screaming conspiracy! It must have been someone else calling the plays! What nonsense. Satterfield has been under the gun all year. SC has a lack of depth in most positions and when someone gets hurt, it makes the team pretty easy to figure out. Saturday night SC did not have a run game with the #1 and #2 running backs out. So the Gamecocks came out throwing. Great night for Rattler and SC. I guess my question is why Tenn didn't react to the obvious lack of a SC running game at the beginning of the game. Rattler's history at SC has been when under pressure he has the tendency to turn the ball over or at the very least take a sack, and that didn't happen Saturday night. Satterfield under the gun....you bet he is. But maybe he finally figured out Rattler and adjusted. Or, maybe Rattler was showing us he hates the color orange! Great! What perfect timing as another orange team is next!
During the postgame press conference, SC head coach Shane Beamer referred to the articles from every reporter present and how Tennessee was going to humiliate the Gamecocks. Needless to say he had a bit of fun with that at the expense of the reporters who had written those articles. SC has an on again off again offense and a defense which hovers at the bottom of the SEC. The bright spot is SC leads the nation on Special Teams. Another bright spot, a loud bright spot, is the Williams Brice crowd. When you come to Williams Brice, and you are ranked and a bit brash, the crowd cranks it up to the next level. That was evident Saturday night. Rattler getting over 430 yards and six touchdowns against the 5th ranked team in the nation is exciting. Gamecock fans were hopeful this was the Rattler we were getting when he came from Oklahoma. Throughout the season he has been ranked at the bottom of the SEC QBs, and his previous play in all likelihood cost SC 3 losses this year. Unimpressive was probably not strong enough. However, taking advantage of a national game on ESPN on Saturday night where all the talking heads were looking for a Tennessee team to slaughter an inept SC squad, this game became a defining moment for Rattler with him acting just like the #1 Heisman candidate he was when last year's football season began. Better late than never seems appropriate, especially if you are a Gamecock fan. And your rankings have Tennessee much too high after an inept South Carolina squad put up over 60 points on the Vols. Come on ESPN!
And it was good that Georgia went thru that 2 game stretch because it got their heads right for the second half of the season. I still think Georgia is the best team in football and doesn't have to do any scoreboard watching because they truely control their own destiny.
The only way someone could consider a possible "tossup"would be to look at the past 20 years of Vols football and look at what Tenn did after winning a huge game...wanna guess what that is? It looks like a big orange egg that a hopeful football team just laid...just sayin. At least its an orange egg. You'll be able to put it up on the display shelf where there are many more already there!
Oh come on, let's be honest here...you had already pissed yourself before you read this! Come on...admit it!
Say what you want about South Carolina, but Shane Beamer has brought back a level of excitement to the football program, so much so the recruits are starting to request to come, which only makes the overall program better and better. South Carolina is not Alabama or Georgia, but they are a program on the move upward, and that is a great thing if you are a Gamecock fan, who had to endure Spurrier walking away mid-season and leaving the program gutted. The team has just now started making meaningful progress and it appears that progression will continue. Hail Beamer ball!
They all have antennas, where they watch all those programs from Alabama where the brothers and sisters marry each other. But its ok cause they are only doing it where she doesn't have to change her last name....you know, learning new words is so hard when you went to school in the 50th ranked school program in the country......
In bowl season when the SEC has come storming out of the gates 0-5, an unlikely winner emerged....the South Carolina Gamecocks! A double digit underdog against North Carolina, who was a preseason Top 10, South Carolina took the lead early and never looked back, winning 38-21. A great crowd at the Dukes Mayo Bowl and a great job by the South Carolina Gamecocks!
The winner gets a one year rental of "South of the Border"...with free mayo for every visitor! Quick, get the 400 billboards up and updated!
No...not Meyer. Hire Spurrier, so he can leave halfway thru the season and put your program back 6 or 7 years....yeah.
Let that sink in for a minute....the South Carolina Gamecocks are going bowling! Most would have thought the only way the Gamecocks were going bowling this year involved strikes and spares!
For anyone who doubts Shane Beamer, you should go back and look at the post game comments after the Missouri loss, as the young man was really hurting. This is a green new Head Coach who is getting his on the job training in the toughest and greatest football conference in the country. For Gamecock loyalists who have observed and followed along the path of Beamer's journey since arriving in Columbia, it is easy to see the vast differences from game 1 to game 11. There is much more improvement needed, but come on guys, Coach Beamer has a winning record in late November after using three quarterbacks and a team which many players had been cherry-picked away during the coaching transition. Now that is the real definition of coaching. The last Saturday night in November.....Williams Brice will be packed to the rafters and the crowd is gonna be about as fired up as humanly possible. Clemson is the better team. However, if South Carolina scores first, if Clemson slips and lets the Gamecocks put points on the board first, it could become one of the most memorable nights in the Williams Brice history. Go Gamecocks! And if you lose Saturday night, congratulations for a season where there were no expectations, as this team is going bowling, and who cares if it is the Aqua Net Hair Spray Banana Split Upper 10 Bowl......it's still a bowl!
Well, one thing to remember is to fire Mullen now, the powers to be that brought him would have to admit they made a mistake in hiring him. I'm of the belief that if he wins out and if the team gets lucky in a bowl assignment, and then win it, his job would be safe. By firing the assistants the powers to be are showing accountability and a pathway for Mullen. He should know with clarity if he loses again this season he is gone. If Mullen wants to remain a Gator, he's gonna have to grind the season out.
Living on the Georgia-South Carolina border, and being a South Carolina supporter, I have enjoyed giving my Georgia friends hell when Georgia slips up, but I truly believe this year the only slip we may see from the Dawgs is them winning a game by 28 points instead of 34. Some slip, huh! I think this may be the best and complete Georgia team I have ever seen, and I am ready to watch these guys carry the rock into the history books.
Living on the Georgia-South Carolina state line, when I moved here 25 years ago I had to pick a team to follow, and because I was on the South Carolina side, I picked the Gamecocks, and for the most part, it has been a pretty good experience. However, living on the border of two states, and following the Gamecocks, I found I had more Georgia friends than South Carolina friends. So it is during the SC-Ga week I have gotten used to all the ridicule from my Georgia friends, and for the most part, it has been understandable, with past records and accomplishments of the two teams, but mostly of just the Bulldogs, as it is this time of year everyone is told that "this Georgia team is the one" and I have to admit, Georgia seems to be loaded with talent year after year, and this year is no exception. It looks like the opening line has Georgia favored by 32 points, and looking back the past 20 seasons, Georgia has been the favorite in every annual matchup with South Carolina except for one game in that period of time, and it could lead one to ask, why play this game if one team has been the favorite year after year? Well, it is because we still have to play the game to get a result. Like the last time these two teams meet in Athens, 2019, Georgia was a 25pt favorite, was #3 in the nation, and had a home field advantage that included 92,746 screaming Bulldog fans. South Carolina won that game 20-17. In 2011, in Athens, SC won 45-42. In 2007, in Athens, Georgia was the #11 in the country, and an unranked SC team won 16-12. In 2001, just 3 days before the events of Sept 11, in Athens, SC beat the #25 Georgia 14-9. South Carolina has won 4 out of the last 10 games played in Athens, and in all of those 4 wins, South Carolina was a significant underdog. In that same 20 years of looking back, SC also won 4 times at home against Georgia, so with the 4 wins in Athens, South Carolina has beaten Georgia 8 times in the last 20 matchups, and in all 8 of those wins, South Carolina was the underdog. Will Georgia beat South Carolina this coming Saturday night? Probably, but based on the previous 20 years, there is a reason the game has to be played, in spite of the home team is favored by almost five touchdowns. Go Gamecocks!
AP has Kentucky 39th.....just reading from the poll.
"well lookie there....they are in our division!"
You have to be in the poll first...
well, more than a few decades....maybe double that!
Something that hasn't been mentioned, or I didn't see it, but back a few decades ago, the Texas-Arkansas game was always one of the season's best matchups, and with Texas now coming to the SEC, it will rekindle that old rivalry, and everyone wins as a result. Something for everyone to look forward to watching.
Yeah, easy and simple. All they have to do is beat Alabama and then get plenty of respect. Nothing to it!
I was on that call with them this morning. And true, it was all about Gator hatred. It is now confirmed!
I agree completely with that. If the Razorbacks continue to win, they will continue to climb. But one thing about teams that have been absent from the polls for a significant time, one uh-oh and "poof" they vanish from the polls.
Unfortunately polls are not immune to being influenced by things other than playing results. Look no further than Notre Dame as an example. They had to score 18 points in the 4th quarter to escape with a 3 point win against national firepower Toledo. The top 12th team in the country? I think not. And remember, upcoming scheduled national games have quite an influence on rankings, as the higher the ranking, the more popular the matchup becomes, and more money is made. And round and round we go.....