GamecockBoy8830

I respect your opinion, and agree to a certain extent with you and USCGrad73, but if money is everything then how do you explain the abject failure of Texas A&M? I honestly believe that SC should focus on getting the best coaching staff money can buy….especially coordinators…players are a dime a dozen for the most part. Well coached/coordinated “three star” players will beat hired guns every time. That’s where SC’s program needs to live….good recruiting (with a healthy and diverse mix of pure football players and athlete-first players) by the Head Coach and then extremely competent offensive and defensive coordinators.

That and a dollar will get you a cup of coffee in Athens, I guess. Who cares about win streaks? GA and AL are going to be in the same place the Gamecocks will be on Monday night….sitting and watching the National Championship…you and your win streak enjoy that.

“Best team in SEC history”? Delusional much? And if Alabama beat this supposed “best team in SEC history”, wouldn’t that make Alabama the…wait for it…best team in SEC history? Us Gamecock fans can be annoying and delusional, but really, GA fans are a whole new level of arrogant, condescending and just full of excrement.

This is absolute drivel…no conference, and I mean none, schedules more out-of-conference lay-up’s than the SEC. Not only that, but the “mighty SEC” rarely leaves its home turf for OOC games, and when they do, they get waxed…remember LSU going up to Lambeau Field to play WI? A total trouncing by WI. Remember LSU going to UCLA? Another beat-down. Enough with the myths of SEC invincibility…the entire conference, writ large, is just lucky that they don’t have to come up north in winter to play.

LOL!!! Finebaum….who ordained that smarmy little creep as an expert on anything, let alone football? I doubt he ever played a down in his entire life, but he sure can run his mouth about it.

Hahaha….keep telling yourself that, but it will not change the fact that Michigan won, they will face another non-SEC team in the National Championship, and whomever is crowned Champion will have nothing to do with the SEC.

You mean the same UGA team who this Alabama beat? And regards this Alabama team, and its loss to Michigan, I think it is you who needs to “be honest”…..maybe, just maybe, the entire SEC is simply not dominant. Who really cares where this year’s Alabama ranks among Alabama teams past…how is that in any way relevant to what happened on the field today?

That depends….when a non-SEC team wins the National Championship this year, will you show that team’s conference the “proper respect”?

Finally….a sane voice of reason…you are 100% accurate….thank you!

Actually, if SEC refs would have done their jobs for once, instead of trying to protect the “order of things” in the “mighty SEC”, Alabama’s walk-off TD would have been flagged as the offensive PI that it was.

Afan is constantly on SC’s page also.

Agreed. This notion of conference loyalty is just nauseating. I’m a Gamecock fan, but loathe the rest of the SEC, and frankly I’m tired of all the arrogant, entitled “SEC-first” clowns acting like the game was invented in the south…newsflash, it wasn’t. Enough with all the conference brotherhood and kumbaya moments. The fact is, the SEC should not have had any team in the playoff this year, and Michigan just validated that.

Well, this comment aged nicely…LOL!

So what happened to your mighty SEC champs…rogered by a lowly Big 10 team? I am an SC fan, but that does not mean I am also beholden to the conference; in fact, I loathe all SEC teams not called the Gamecocks, so I’m not delusional when it comes to objective analysis of who should be put into a four team playoff. Face facts, Alabama had no business there this year…and neither did GA, since they did not even win the conference.

Looks like you got “rammer-jammered” by Michigan, sport. Again, Alabama had no business in the playoff, and Michigan just validated that….enjoy the off-season.

I think this is a great solution, mlc0808….

Seriously? Look, I’m not going to argue who the better team was last night, because GA clearly was, but “bottom line”? There is no way any team from the SEC should have been in the playoffs this year….period. Of course FL State took a massive dump last night….just imagine if GA went undefeated, won their conference (a conference, which, by the way, went 6-4 against the SEC in ‘23), and was denied a playoff spot because of “opinions” on who “the best” teams “really” are….fact is, FL State did not want to be there, and it showed, whereas GA had a point to make (and they did). But this entitled, nonsensical belief that, no matter what, at least one team from the “mighty” SEC needs to be in any playoff scenario is total rubbish. Thank God this is moving to 12 teams next year…finally some objectivity being introduced into this bs-laden opinion-fest.

I personally think that a lot of these Alabama lovers are total troglodytes who couldn’t fill a thimble full of football knowledge. Bottom line is they’re such total losers in their lives that their only sense of self-worth comes from worshipping at the altar of the Crimson Tide. Well, one day the worm will turn, and we’ll see who still supports Alabama then.

Too true, Geaux Blue, but the bigger issue in that Auburn game and in that play specifically was the blatant offensive PI which was not called…had that been a SC receiver, I can guarantee-f-ing-tee you that a flag is thrown and the game ends with an Auburn win.

The difference is that Muschamp fostered a very selfish, individual-focused culture; it was toxic, and severely under-achieving relative to the talent he had. To top it off, his coordinators, especially on offense, were a never-ending parade of total clowns.

Obviously I can only speak for myself, but I like Beamer as a Head Coach; I think he recruits very well and he’s done well in the portal….and I like the team culture he is building. That said, he absolutely needs to be surrounded by coordinators who are top-tier, and at this point, both his OC and DC are dreadful…so unless he can find some “ruthless”, I think he’ll go down riding his incompetent assistants all the way. I hope this will not be the case, but so far I do not see him rushing to improve his staff.

They have done better; both Sellers and Reno are better.

Relax; the 2024 class is a top 20 class with some five star talent (if star ratings are your thing), and the players coming in via the portal are superior to those leaving. What SC really needs are two extremely competent coordinators, and that is what is lacking right now. Defensively, White is dreadful at best, and offensively Loggains refuses to use one third of the field (the middle). If/when Beamer can fix his coordinator situation, there is no reason why SC cannot be extremely competitive. And as far as “the players” are concerned, the bottom line is that they are a dime a dozen…don’t fool yourself, the main difference between Robbie Ashford and Jalen Milroe is coaching and coordinating…period.

I don’t see it that way. The players lost to the portal are capable of producing a 5-7 season, and logged record training room time; looking at the players coming in via the portal, I think SC upgraded over-all talent, and certainly upgraded over-all player availability. That, combined with the strength of their incoming recruit class, should net out as improved play from the Gamecocks.

Yes, and made one, count ‘em, one big/game-changing play while at SC. I wish him luck, and thank him for his efforts, but honestly….who cares?

LOL….I knew you couldn’t resist…hey, enjoy whatever loser bowl the mutts are playing in….next time you want to know whether or not the mutts have a shot against Alabama, come on by and I’ll give you my honest assessment, just like I did this year when I called the SEC championship game weeks in advance.

I think “settling” has been this fan-base’s mantra for too many years, so no, I will not settle down, settle up or settle anything. I’m not “beating my chest” at all; rather, I’m stating that the additions, to me, look like upgrades over the defections, it’s that simple. If you disagree, cool, we’ll see and for now we may agree to disagree.

Very intriguing prospect….hope this young man can stay healthy and (finally) provide a middle of the field threat for the Gamecocks…nice addition.

They may have been big shoes, but they weren’t worn very often…I’ll be happy if this young man is not as “talented” a receiver Wells is, but is available for the entire season.

This guy is exactly what the base 4-2-5 needs….and he will allow the defense to also play some 3-3-5 in certain situations…very good pick up by Beamer and crew. Love that he turned down the mutts at GA to play at SC.