The last decade has been frustrating to say the least. We've had some memorable moments but overall a lot of forgettable football.
It's been exactly 10 years since Spurrier resigned
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The day before that I watched his press conference after the lsu game that was moved from Columbia to Baton Rouge and played on a Sunday. I had never seen a coach so disgusted with a football team and rightfully so, particularly our running back David something that transferred either in from or out to Arkansas. He was essentially saying that their guys wanted it and went and got it and our guys couldn’t give a ____, and that holds true still to today and puzzles me. For instance I don’t understand why the receivers on every bloody team we play act like they would fight their mama for the ball and our receivers act like they don’t want to get their uniform messed up. I know someone will pipe up with ‘coaching’ but if it’s coaching it goes all the way back at least to Spurrier too. Your last sentence describes not only the past decade but the past 58 years I’ve been a Carolina fan as well.
Yes, I remember that. We had to move the LSU home game to Baton Rouge because of the Columbia flood in 2015. They played our fight song and tried to make us feel at home and then proceeded to whip our tails. Tanner made sure to thank everyone at LSU for being so hospitable. They thanked us for the lopsided victory.
Wow, time flies. You are right...we've have some pretty good highs and a whole lot of lows during that time.
Spurrier's great 3-season run is all we've ever had......nothing else has come close. I've been seeing this garbage since the late 1960's. Carolina football will realistically never change.
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Spurrier proved it could be done... with the right coach.
And we'll never have another one like him.
We have a ceiling. Every program does. I have said for a long, long time that our ceiling is to be a Top 20 program, not 5, not 10, not 15....but Top 20. Spurrier produced 3 Top 10 seasons, including a number 4 finish. Can that happen again? Yes, if we have the right coach.
And a generational influx of in-state NFL early rounders. Look back at those rosters; those guys don’t come here if they’re not in-state, Spurrier or not.
Well, sorry to disappoint, but we are in agreement here.
SOS was thoroughly average here until we had an unprecedented run of NFL-caliber, in-state talent. Unfortunately, we'll likely never see that much talent come out of the state over such a short period of time again. To Spurrier's credit, he kept them in state where they previously likely would have gone to UGA or elsewhere. It was just a perfect storm of in-state talent and a head coach with the cachet to convince them to stay. It's unlikely we'll ever see that confluence of factors again.
Do you need "generational influx of in-state NFL early rounders" to produce Top 16-20 teams? I don't think so, Maybe Top 5-10 teams, but not Top 20. That's why I say Top 20 is our ceiling.
Winning attracts prospects, and so does the potential to send them to the NFL. That is what Spurrier was doing; winning and sending players to the NFL. Getting quality OL play should not be this difficult for the current regime. Either the scouting or coaching is just bad.
Probably not, IMO Morrison and Carlen we had talent on OL. Not always best results, but these OL seemed to be made of what OL needed to succeed. Add good coaching to that was huge also.
We had 1984. But that season is the epitome of Gamecock football - really, all athletics - Euphoric success followed immediately by a euphoria-squashing kick in the nutz.