re: 16 August a day to remember ....

IBG, I said in one of my early posts that the tie that binds the SC and UK is hopeless optimism. In a per capita seats in the stadium vs the obvious lack of corresponding resources / wins, UK and SC are some of the most optimistic folks in all of college football. While Everett McGill said Delmar O'Donnell was your paradigm of hope, I think the fans may be more of the epic Don Quixote tilting at windmills of chivalric romance of what should be instead of what is.

In this vein one can forgive the over optimistic musings of Scrooster in the past as not an error of thought but a dream of what could be. We need that optimism but should not neglect folks like Royal Air for keeping us from total madness and jumping off cliffs like lemmings.

I made an observation and caught hell but I think my thoughts and process was still correct... The initial SC process of new coaching hires was sidetracked and why I thought they dropped the ball on the 3rd try. I will state it again as the probably correct path for SC.

While not blessed with the history or money of say Alabama the think tank in Columbia was correct in getting something past prime but with built in power to jump over the in-between.

Hire #1 = Lou
Past NC winner with great ties to the media

Hire #2 = OBC
Past NC winner with great ties to the media

Hire #3 = ???
Should have been like the other two but they went the opposite direction and got the up and comer and not the proven talent past their prime.