What he established here in his time, now forever lost to history. All anybody around my age and younger knows as far as men's basketball is concerned at South Carolina is bottom feeder and everybody's senior day opponent.
Frank McGuire is in his grave spinning like a lathe
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Had George Felton been left alone (who cares that he loved the bottle), our fortunes would have been different.
Indeed; that’s our MO. Prissy and too big for our britches.
Look at our list of ne’er do wells, people we ran off or we hates thems:
Frank McGuire
George Felton
Bobby Cremins
Eddie Fogler
Dave Odom
Derek Watson
Demetrius Summers
Steve Spurrier
Frank Martin
So fortunate to be in school during the 96-97 seasons. They both ended brutally and I know where I was both losses. Add them to the list that includes 9/11, the challenger and Columbine.
How did we "run off" a guy that wanted to retire the year before?
Well, it depends on the axis of spin. If the axis goes head to toe, and he was buried horizontally, he could just be working his way around the circumference of the earth, never digging down.
5 NCAA tournament appearances in the last 30 years. Has to be the least in the SEC in that time period, and one of the lowest totals in all of P4.
The McGuire days were really fun, remember couldn’t wait till they played, most of their games were on tv and they were big time games, we’ll never see that again
I am a Carolina fan today because of McGuire.I was 12-13 during the Roche-Owens years and attended camp 3 times.Those guys were heroes to all of us unlike really anybody else I’ve seen in S.C. sports.
I remember all the ACC games
and the rivalry with NC and later Lefty and Md.
Even after Carolina left the ACC the rivalry with Marquette coached by Al McGuire was great.
i even remember when Kevin Joyce had an incredible 2nd half and Carolina came back and beat Bobby Knight and Indiana.Knight was so pissed he threw a chair through a window at CAE.My first taste of the infamous Bobby Knight temper.
I remember all the ACC games
and the rivalry with NC and later Lefty and Md.
Even after Carolina left the ACC the rivalry with Marquette coached by Al McGuire was great.
i even remember when Kevin Joyce had an incredible 2nd half and Carolina came back and beat Bobby Knight and Indiana.Knight was so pissed he threw a chair through a window at CAE.My first taste of the infamous Bobby Knight temper.
Same here, totally agree, I think even Clemson fans liked the teams McGuire had when Roach , Owen’s, Ribock , Cremins , and many others played
You’re a couple years behind me, I was in high school. I attended a clinic/workshop at the coliseum with McGuire, Buck Freeman, and a couple other college coaches where they used the gamecock team to demonstrate the various strategies and techniques. Being on the court with those guys was petrifying. I took two shots all day, one because Bob Carver told me to that went in ugly, and the other an air ball later on.
I have told many people many times that those gamecock basketball teams were bigger in terms of popularity and notoriety than anything that’s ever been in this state, including Clemson’s football titles. If you were there you know.
