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South Carolina fans, why was Richard Bell fired in 1982 after just one year?
Posted on 8/13/14 at 1:08 pm
Posted on 8/13/14 at 1:08 pm
guy was 4-7 but it wasn't like South Carolina had been a national power with one bowl after another.
Seems odd.
Seems odd.
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Posted on 8/13/14 at 1:22 pm to I-59 Tiger
IIRC, he tried to sacrifice our kicker to the gods in exchange for a win vs. Clemson. Didn't work.
Administration didn't like that move much.
Administration didn't like that move much.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 1:35 pm to I-59 Tiger
He lost games he shouldn't have, plain and simple.
In short, he lost to Duke and he lost to Furman ... which was totally unacceptable. He almost lost to Navy, but he was already done by then. He was strictly interim.
We hired Joe Morrison the next year and he turned us around.
The guy Coach Bell replaced (Jim Carlen), who was run out of town by some assholes, has gone down as one of our best ever. He was a winner who knew how to recruit trench warfare guys. Plus he had George Rogers' Heisman.
We had bad leadership at the very top back then, at President, in James Holderman. And the bad leadership trickled-down and caused problems through-out the university. Holderman was a raging hypocrite and he did Jim Carlen wrong.
He did Frank McGuire wrong as well.
Holderman was a pox upon us and it took a long time to get-over the damage he did ... much like what Tennessee is experiencing now.
But Bell was always the interim coach and he knew it. Carlen was fired well after the 81 season when it was discovered that he was having an affair with a cheerleader ... long story. They stayed married until his death a few years ago.
But Bell was Carlen's DB coach so he got the job only on an interim trial basis.
Two years after Bell was fired, Morrison took us to our first 10-win season in '84 and we shite the bed up at Navy after suffering a lot of personnel losses in the win over FSU the week before.
Morrison went on to field probably our best team, talent wise in '87, before the famous Tommy Chaiken steroid scandal broke midseason in October of '88 in Sports Illustrated. LINK
That really hurt us as almost our entire recruiting class bailed on us in the face of coming sanctions and we were still recovering when we joined the SEC in '92.
Morrison died of a heart attack while taking a shower after playing racquetball ... he was still our coach at the time.
We hired Sparky Woods as HC, hired a new AD, an alumn named King Dixon who had played ball at SC and was an ex Marine officer ... he got things squared away and got us into the SEC and then Mike McGee took over as AD.
McGee fired Sparky (who is now at VMI), and hired the hottest young asst coach in the country at the time ... outta FSU, Brad Scott. FSU and Scott had just won the MNC with Charlie Ward. But Scott turned-out to be a lazy no good tub of shite ... so McGee hired Holtz to turn us around, and he did. Then McGee hired Spurrier after the Carolina-Clemson brawl of 2004.
McGee then retired, he had been the AD at SoCal prior to joining us in '92 and he really got us on the right track. He also hired Ray Tanner as our baseball coach.
At any rate, we're on the right track now ... but it's been a long haul.
In short, he lost to Duke and he lost to Furman ... which was totally unacceptable. He almost lost to Navy, but he was already done by then. He was strictly interim.
We hired Joe Morrison the next year and he turned us around.
The guy Coach Bell replaced (Jim Carlen), who was run out of town by some assholes, has gone down as one of our best ever. He was a winner who knew how to recruit trench warfare guys. Plus he had George Rogers' Heisman.
We had bad leadership at the very top back then, at President, in James Holderman. And the bad leadership trickled-down and caused problems through-out the university. Holderman was a raging hypocrite and he did Jim Carlen wrong.
He did Frank McGuire wrong as well.
Holderman was a pox upon us and it took a long time to get-over the damage he did ... much like what Tennessee is experiencing now.
But Bell was always the interim coach and he knew it. Carlen was fired well after the 81 season when it was discovered that he was having an affair with a cheerleader ... long story. They stayed married until his death a few years ago.
But Bell was Carlen's DB coach so he got the job only on an interim trial basis.
Two years after Bell was fired, Morrison took us to our first 10-win season in '84 and we shite the bed up at Navy after suffering a lot of personnel losses in the win over FSU the week before.
Morrison went on to field probably our best team, talent wise in '87, before the famous Tommy Chaiken steroid scandal broke midseason in October of '88 in Sports Illustrated. LINK
That really hurt us as almost our entire recruiting class bailed on us in the face of coming sanctions and we were still recovering when we joined the SEC in '92.
Morrison died of a heart attack while taking a shower after playing racquetball ... he was still our coach at the time.
We hired Sparky Woods as HC, hired a new AD, an alumn named King Dixon who had played ball at SC and was an ex Marine officer ... he got things squared away and got us into the SEC and then Mike McGee took over as AD.
McGee fired Sparky (who is now at VMI), and hired the hottest young asst coach in the country at the time ... outta FSU, Brad Scott. FSU and Scott had just won the MNC with Charlie Ward. But Scott turned-out to be a lazy no good tub of shite ... so McGee hired Holtz to turn us around, and he did. Then McGee hired Spurrier after the Carolina-Clemson brawl of 2004.
McGee then retired, he had been the AD at SoCal prior to joining us in '92 and he really got us on the right track. He also hired Ray Tanner as our baseball coach.
At any rate, we're on the right track now ... but it's been a long haul.
This post was edited on 8/13/14 at 2:03 pm
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