My question is why do we not open up our wallets to get top of the line coaches? Why does Clemson do so but, we don't (not that it is helping them this season or last). Are we serious about football or are we just pretending?
As long as fans pack the stadium, who cares about the quality of the product on the field?
We don't have any money, man. We'll have a little money after the next SEC distribution but it will go mostly for players.
Clemson must have some rich alumni boosting them because they seem to pay top dollar for Dabo's staff.
They are sports-centric, but especially football-centric. They also have engineers and we have sociology and archeology majors. Those people up there are part of a cult - as with Ga. Tech, A&M, Citadel - places like that. Their school allegiance comes first.
Maybe we shouldn't have given Beamer huge raises simply because he did his job?
Lots of people make the same mistake now because it's market-driven more than performance driven.
It is extremely curious that the opening drives from Virginia Tech and Vanderbilt both looked like masterpieces. Works of art. We marched down the field with precision. Then in both games the offense instantly went into a shell for most of the rest of the game.
Those scripted drives might be the only plays they practiced all week. Kind of looks like it.
I understand that Carolina has engineering disciplines. At UPC, those courses of study, including architecture, majors specific to textiles, agriculture, forestry, the automobile industry, the medical field, and other non-humanities make up a larger percentage of the curriculum.
To be fair, I see that in a lot of games. Tennessee went down the field against UGA on their opening drive like a hot knife through butter. UGA returned the favor on their first drive. Then, both teams sort of settled into more normal pace of play. I have noticed lots of games where the opening possession for both teams looks like the game is going to be a shootout with the last team with the ball winning and the final score ends up being 27-24.
I think the fact that about half of SC students and alumni over the last decade or so are out of state students doesn't help in the donation aspect. Kids who come to SC from Ohio, Indiana, New York, etc. don't have the same passion and long time connection to the school and the football team as in state kids who grew up being SC fans. Many of the more recent out of state students also end up going back close to home for jobs when they graduate so they aren't as likely to donate or buy season tickets.
