The Chicken Curse...
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Did we get caught cheating at bass fishing or something?
Busted for impersonating the #1 ranked soccer team in the US.
How perfectly USC. It's like the 3rd-world sports version of the 1984 Navy game.
Which edition of the Chicken Curse are you referring to? The one that stuck the longest was the lack of wins in bowl games.
That "man are we good or what" mentality only needed a few hours to wipe out all that hard work.
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People misinterpret the Chicken Curse. The curse is not that SC will suck, it is that SC will always fall short, even if just barely.
Some football examples:
What other SEC football team could win 11 games three years in a row and not even play in the SECCG once during that time?
What other team could find a way into the SECCG with 3 conference losses only to be defeated by the largest margin in the history of the SECCG?
1984 Navy. Need I say more?
I view the separate events as merely outcomes of the dark power that is the curse, as it manifests itself in many different forms. But all are a product of the CC.
Yep. The curse of the chicken curse is that we agonizingly fall short, often in new and creative ways.
Having the best RB in the nation and losing him 2/3yrs to torn ACLs is a perfect example of the CC manifestation.
Thornwell getting the flu. It manifests in many, many different ways. It does not discriminate due to gender, sport, time or place. It always will be.
Thornwell getting the flu. It manifests in many, many different ways. It does not discriminate due to gender, sport, time or place. It always will be.
How does Ray Tanner factor in? He broke through and won those natty's but then set baseball back to a place that hadn't been around in a long time. Then he hired Muschamp, Paris, and Beamer. What even is that?
USC athletics. Outside of Spurrier and Tanner, have you ever seen any of the big 3 sustain themselves?
Tanner is really the only story of sustained success with tangible results. Spurrier was the best ever as football coach at SC, but that is sort of a "tallest pygmy" thing when you look at his overall record and what was really accomplished.
I was thinking more modern day (since we joined the SEC) but Raines was good. He wasn't great in the SEC though.
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