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Literally every time you watch South Carolina under Spurrier the offense looks different. Its a completely difference offense now than it was under Thompson, or Garcia, or how it looked in 2005 or even when they beat us in 2010.

I think that is a good reason USC is having problems breaking through to the top. I mean they have been consistently good since he has been there, even great compared to Sakerlina prior to his arrival. But if you take the SEC as a whole from 2005-2010 the conference has dominated college football but it seems of the teams that haven't been hopeless they are the ones not sharing the spotlight with Alabama, Auburn, Florida, LSU, even Georgia.

Not a troll, but how much have you watched USC the last few years? They're pretty much a consistent zone-read, shotgun offense. Spurrier tries to get the ground game going, and then he opens up the downfield targets, sometimes off of rollouts/bootlegs. We don't have an Alshon anymore, but our wideouts are sure-handed, speedy, and great route-runners. Shaq Roland had a little bit of a coming out party yesterday.

As far as being relevant, no, USC hasn't made it to Atlanta like we ought to. Everyone in the fanbase knows it, and is frustrated by it. USC has beaten the East rep the last three years, but keeps tripping over their dicks against lesser opponents (Auburn 2011, UF 2012, UGA/UTK 2013).

You could argue that what Spurrier is doing at USC is his best coaching work, as he has had to adapt the most in order to make the program go. When he first showed up, he tried the Fun 'n Gun with mediocre results. Since '10, when he hired our offensive line coach and installed the zone-read, the team has been light-years better.