SOUTH CAROLINA
Get with the program or leave says former Gamecocks QB Connor Shaw
Former South Carolina quarterback Connor Shaw didn’t mince words Monday on Twitter with regards to the cloud of negativity hovering over the Gamecocks’ football program this season.
South Carolina (3-8) has struggled mightily this season, finishing last in the East. Last week’s loss to The Citadel represented the punctuation mark on a forgettable season, one that would end even worse if Clemson comes into Williams Brice Stadium on Saturday and waxes a team in disarray.
Shaw led by example and wasn’t known for being vocal during his tenure, so when the program’s all-time leader in winning percentage speaks, people listen:
Connor Shaw needs to shut up before USC has an empty locker room.. this is nothing but more bad press IMO…
As a Tennessee fan, why do you care about bad press for USC? Get lost troll. Connor Shaw is a winner. He can say whatever the F he wants to those players.
No only am I a Tennessee Fan, I am also a football fan… and Shaw’s Pubic comments is not helpful to the team and its recruiting… it would be totally different if these were private comments that didn’t hit the news stand..
I disagree about it being more bad press. He’s right. If they don’t want to play for the Gamecocks, they should leave. If that leaves us with an empty locker room, then we start over. There are kids who want to play, even when we’re terrible.
UT trash that knows nothing about one of the best players that will ever wear a garnet and black uniform. Find something else to beotch about, beotch.
Or if your Steve Spurrier jump ship like a rat and still keep a job and everyone praising you at SC. As far as the fans go, they have every right to be mad right now. Spurrier knew this season would be bad and he jumped ship.
Jumped ship? He left because you had idiots like Brandon Wilds and Lorenzo Nunez thinking they could play when and how they wanted. Or not play at all.
Outspoken players should be benched period. They’re just tools, not coaches and in this case not even leaders.
There’s a reason the team is 3-8. It’s called stupidity and ego.
If “stupidity and ego” include a HC who thinks he doesn’t have to recruit in the SEC followed by a HC who places his inept son in ANY position of power, then yes, I agree, we are 3-8 because of stupidity and ego.
The greatest Gamecock I’ve ever seen can say whatever the hell it is he wants to about the program. He’s played his way to that.
Will take a whole team of Conner Shaws. Would love to see him come back and be our QB coach.
Would be an absolute great spark. Nothing shows better start again for a program than alumni returning.
You and me both. Him as QB coach and Lattimore as the RB coach.
Look, as a clemson fan I have nothing but the utmost respect for Shaw, respectful man and an amazing QB, personally, I do feel that he has a point, when the going gets tough thats when these guys need fans the most, when you lose to El Cid but still see a crowd cheering you on willing you to win, that inspires, but jumping ship (which has happened in the past at USC during close games look at UT in 2014 and UF this year) is not going to help yalls program.
Fair point. I think Willy B will be packed for kickoff.