re: Gamecock football next year?

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It's a known fact that Spurrier doesn't like to recruit and now he's going against staffs that are working their asses off.

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Okay so if Spurrier has always been a lazy recruiter how does that change anything? Our recruiting has been solid throughout the Spurrier years, why are you suggesting that this will suddenly change?

yeah, the FSU game was just a turnover fest, our yardage against them was decent. FSU was on the other end of that in the game with Oregon this year, because they had similar yardage stats. fumble luck decides so many games. I wish they'd spot the ball at the team's 25 yard line rather than where it was recovered. it is good enough the team gets the ball back, good field position on top of that is double punishment.

i am kind of against fumble recoveries at all, except if the qb gets sacked and drops it. Running backs are going to drop it sometimes b/c they getting hit like crazy. there are only so many possesions in football and some guy just dropping the ball for no reason or a lucky hit jarring it loose shouldn't decide games but it does. pretty much every upset in football is b/c of fumble luck. look it up

in the SC-clemson game two years, our punt / kickoff retuner fumbled twice. teams can't overcome that. fans wait all season for the gam and it decided by the frickin punt returner. lol Boyd also lost one in a scrum, he had like 10 gamecocks on him. he supposed to be superman and hold on to ball . lol that would be flagrant foul in basketball, just guys chopping at his hands.

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Okay so if Spurrier has always been a lazy recruiter how does that change anything? Our recruiting has been solid throughout the Spurrier years, why are you suggesting that this will suddenly change?

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Because now kids know he'll only be around a couple more years. I mean, like 6 decommited after his comments.

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Because now kids know he'll only be around a couple more years. I mean, like 6 decommited after his comments.

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Okay but that doesn't mean we weren't able to recruit. Before those comments we had a top 5 class, indicating that Spurrier and his staff had and do have the ability to recruit at a high-level. The one dumb comment = / = SC suddenly lost its ability to recruit.

much of SC's success past few years was the in state talent was above average, guys like Clowney, Swearinger, Quarles all in state and happened to prefer SC over Clemson. It isn't as good right now and that is why you are seeing a dropoff.

the funniest thing about Spurrier's comments leading to de-recruiting is that corner out of Charlotte, he said his dad had bought all this gamecock gear and the dad was mad he had to take it all back. lol then Clemson got the kid.

Their class is like number 12. Not seeing the drop off.

I've got them at 6th in the East and 13th overall. They will be awful.

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Sc has a losing record in athens under spurrier, and this will be one of the worst teams they've brought in that time frame.

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I don't think the drop off is going to be nearly as big. A lot has already been pointed out in this thread.

Thompson had a lot of passing yards (he was 1st in the SEC,) but he made a lot of mistakes. We have a QB in Mitch going into his 3rd year with the program who is a much higher rated passer.

We lost 2 OL, but we have 4 coming back with starting experience and 8 of 10 from last year's 2 Deep. We have an upperclassmen TE coming back and arguably has the most Pro potential since Saunders.

We have 4 of our top 5 rushers returning, including 2 Sr's.

We have the most talent at WR available since 2007. We have a 1st Team All SEC WR in Cooper coming back.

We dramatically upgraded our pass rush, including 3 JUCO/Prep DE's who were #1 for their position coming out of their levels (Prep or JUCO.) Then we're bringing in 3 stud DE's from HS.

We took all of '14, but we figured out that Walton and Moore are our best LB's, and they're coming back for their Jr seasons.

We are losing 1 DB, and 6 of the 8 DB's from last year's 2 Deep are coming back, more experienced and with a lot of film of what NOT to do. Our DB's got much better as the season progressed last year, it just took time and experience.

We have a All SEC kicker coming back in Fry and we have the #1 HS Punter coming in.

Still we could win anywhere between 6-13 Reg Season games, there are things that will need to be proven rather than speculated. However, these same coaches who produced garbage last year produced THREE 11-2 teams previously to that.

Our biggest weakness last year was Pass Rush and youth at DB. Teams exploited that most of the season. We've addressed both those issues really well with recruiting. Cocks Comin