USCGrad73

The SEC game announcers said late in the broadcast that of the 4 new SEC basketball coaches debuting in 2022, Lamont Parris got the least "buzz". Well, I think he got a lot of Buzz last night.

So much for your picks. 79-62

I just saw an article that says that Will is taking a pay cut to $50,000. Please don't feel sorry for him, as I am sure he still has most of the $12+ million lump sum amount he negotiated his $15 million severance package to when our AD fired him in 2020

See my comment on the other article about NIL money destroying college football

Bcreek, NIL money is going to be the death of us, football wise. South Carolina is not a particularly wealthy state, and we have Clemson and their fan and alumni base to compete with to acquire it? Look at the talented players we lost at the end of the 2022 season to other schools that essentially bought our talent away from us to Southern Cal., Florida State, and others. And it is happening again this year. If a kid can leave us and get more playing time somewhere else, I understand. But if they are leaving for more money, our program is at a disadvantage. Unless something is done, college football's national champion is going to be like George Steinbrenner's NY Yankees winning all those titles with "the best team that money can buy."

Paul, I am not sure Jimbo's hiring was a total failure. He was responsible for some really good coaches getting raises (see Saban, Dabo, et. al.)

Dave Odom? He was a very good college basketball coach who coached at Wake Forest University (where he was responsible for recruiting Tim Duncan), and then the University of South Carolina. He won back-to-back NIT Championships at USC. He has been retired at least 12 years. (Where do they find these writers?)

Does she have any eligibility left?

Remember Burch came from the SC independent school conference. Since the competition was not as good, I think he was overrated coming out of high school. Then he leaves for Oregon (and a lot of that Nike NIL money). Edmond did also. That has got to be fixed or college football will become perpetual free agency. Just MHO

I like Jeff's "Bold Predictions", but I think he is smoking something.

If he wants to be the next Usain Bolt (who is 6'5", 207 lbs), he can't gain a lot of muscle and weight for football, and then have to drop it for track. My bet is he plays WR and some tight end.

I think Nyck and his Dad looked really good in Gamecock hats! I think Beamer (and the fan base) could quit sweating when he saw the pen go on the paper.

Bill, we all could do a better job than half of the writers on this site.

Just goes to show that Phil Knight's billion$ can reach all the way to the East coast and pluck a Columbia kid away from his hometown college.

Hey Alabama Fan: That same OL of ours that you decided to disparage was the same OL that blocked for Kevin Harris, when he led the SEC in rushing in 2020. That means he outrushed Najee Harris, Tank Bigsby, et. al.

According to a source close to the program it's already happened with one of our other portal transfers. So, we have become the equivalent of MLB's free agency, except the players don't have contracts at all. Dabo might be right that it is going to ruin college football. The monied programs will just buy their players on signing day, and then just poach anyone else they want from other teams. Anyone care to disagree? Too bad for Johnny Manziel, he was about 10 years too early to really cash in on this. Cam Newton's father did alright though.

It has already been mentioned, but we had no threat of a running game after middle of the second quarter. JuJu had a little success early, but Beal Smith had 5 carries for 8 yards rushing for the whole game. Notre Dame knew we were passing in the second half and they came after Rattler every play. The players going to the portal, opting out, or getting injured left us weakened on offense and defense. The defense was just gassed in from the late third quarter on. I was very proud of our players keeping us in a game. The writer of this article just needs to go find a job outside of sports journalism

We would have had many more 11 win seasons had 1) Assistant Coach Shane Beamer not left the program to accept a position on his father's staff at VA Tech; 2) DC Ellis Johnson not left to go become head coach at Southern Mississippi the same year; and (perhaps the most important) 3) HBC not become old and complacent and forgot how to recruit

This one I don't get. Bell and Stogner leaving I don't understand, but they transferred in from other programs. Lloyd had the 2020 preseason injury before he ever played a down. Last year it was evident that he had not fully recovered. This year, in spite of the early season games against Arkansas and Georgia (when the offense didn't play well), he was on schedule to reach 1,000 yards until the bad thigh bruise essentially ended his season. He would have been one of the top returning running backs in the SEC. Can't figure this one out.

All Gamecock fans are praying for Mike Leach. It reminds us of losing our own Coach Joe Morrison to a fatal heart attack back in 1989 when he was only 51 years old. He was a 13 year player in the NFL for the NY Giants (for those of you too young to remember him). Praying for God to heal Coach Leach.

Yes, Hurst was amazing at tight end, probably the best we had at the position since Willie Scott. His physicality contributed to his success. I remember a catch he made between two defenders and Todd Ellis said of him "That's a man out there!"

It's not Jessie's fault that he got it wrong. He doesn't have time to watch football games, what with his hosting cooking shows on Food Network and Daily Mail TV gigs. Give him a break

Were you watching the ABC broadcast of the game? They replayed it and the receiver who did not catch the ball was at least a half yard behind Uagaleilei. I think McDonough and his broadcasting partner were equally shocked by the non-reversal.

Are you sure those weren't SEC refs. Couldn't you tell from all the bad calls? They took away our recovery of the dropped lateral that we were going to waltz into the end zone by calling it an incomplete pass, and then had the audacity to review it and uphold it being called a pass. Then they called Rattler for intentional grounding from the end zone, when there was a receiver running back for the ball. I could go on, buy why continue.

1) So proud of our boys. I have lived through too many long Clemson win streaks in this rivalry. Beamer started his own win streak today! 2) If you are old enough to remember, when Sparky Woods changed quarterbacks mid-season to true freshman Steve Tanneyhill, we went on a winning streak topped off by Tanneyhill leading us to an upset win at Clemson. The mullet-wearing QB took a pen and signed his name to the Tiger Paw in the middle of the field, pi**ing off the CU fans. Someone should have given Rattler a pen and told him to do the same thing. 3) This is the Spenser Rattler we all have been waiting for that we saw these last two weeks. Our 5 Star QB outplayed Clemson's 5 Star QB today and he outplayed Hooker last week, probably the Heisman frontrunner. I hope he decides to come back next year and improve his resume, as it would make him a first round pick in the NFL draft. He played as good as any quarterback in the country the last two weeks.

Another comment regarding Matt Barrie's opinion. I don't think the Clemson Defensive Coordinator slept very well last night. Might have kept Dabo up some too.

A Steve Spurrier coached USC beat Arkansas in Brett Bielema's first year by a score of something like 50-7

Now that's funny!

I agree with the three of you. Nick was standing still and not moving to engage the UT receiver. He lowered his head first and the receiver lowered his head as he ran forward to Nick. A good friend was texting me from the USC press box and said it was classic targeting. Well, the targeting rule needs to be changed by the SEC/NCAA rules committee for situations where the defender was only defending himself. It is a flawed rule. By now we know that Hooker is lost for the season with his knee injury. Very sorry for him that it happened, and glad that it was not as a result of contact from one of our guys. Good luck to him in the draft. It was an unexpected win for us, but after we played poorly in last year's game in Knoxville and were down 28-0 in the first quarter, I think motivation from our players had a lot to do with it. Just two weeks ago we were outplayed by Missouri in a game I am sure our fan base, if not our players were expecting to win. I'm sure UT's players and fan base expected them to win. I am glad we were on the right side of this unexpected result. One last comment. In the last thirty seconds before cutting to the game broadcast, ESPN's studio host asked both of his "experts", some guy who predicted that UT would score 50 points on us, and then Dan "Clown" Mullen had to trump that, as he predicted they would score 60 on us. Well Mullen, you were right about the number, you just were wrong about the team that would reach 60 points. Maybe that is why you now wear suits on Saturday and watch games thousands of miles away from football fields.

Yeah, I don't know which coach made the call to go for it on fourth and two, but that thinking could have been disastrous if it cost us the game. The ease with which A&M moved the ball down the field in that last minute and then converted the onsides kick after their field goal put the win in serious jeopardy. They needed their head examined.