re: So It's Been A Couple of Months Now (USC)

As far as logic at the time? Yeah we wiffed on Smart. If we could have actually gotten him to ink a deal we should have earlier. There's a lot of stuff floating around about whether it was the citadel game or outside influences or if talks with Herman weren't as serious as they seem so I can't give a definitive answer on that. Personally I wouldn't have minded. He's done great things at Houston. I'll even allow for the fact that at the time I wasn't all that thrilled with the muschamp hire. However, I think you'll be hard pressed to find a Gamecock fan who'll say something negative about him presently. He's assembled a great staff, drastically blew recruiting expectations out of the water, and just generally built excitement around the program. No one is expecting any better than like 6-6 this year, but the pieces are there for success.