clemson game thoughts

All the good will and positives built up all year by the coaches were thrown out the window in one game for me. I expected we would lose, but the complete embarrassment was hard to stomach. They were literally calling timeouts for curtain calls during the game. I've never seen that done in football before, and the worst part was that it was our fault for allowing it to happen by completely shitting the bed. It also pissed me off thinking about how Spurrier always played it conservative at the end of the games with them when he could have run up big scores a few times.

Not a single player or unit looked like they deserved to be on the field last night. That to me was more humiliating than 63-17, and I didn't think it was possible for that to ever happen. Hopefully, the team and coaches will rebound and win whatever bowl we go to so we don't lose all the momentum this program was building the second half of the season.

1989 all over again. Gamecocks managed just 155 yds behind Dickie DeMasi & Co in the that one after Ellis went down mid-season. Ford could've wrote the final score on the board that night and he actually eased up 2H. the only solace last night was it didn't occur in W-B.

until something is done to fix both the OL/DL, there will always be a chance for outcomes like last night. recruiting alone may not help our future OL. there is a core of young skill players at USC which will have success. the worst part last night was watching #7, a professed Gamecock growing up, play against Carolina.

Muschamp suffered his worst loss as a HC. he lost in Baton Rouge his first season 41-11, and to FSU his third season 37-7. the opponent's behavior from coaches to players last night should stick with him for years to come. he's been a part of many rivalries, but never a blood feud that has involved schools with a history born as ours.

the petty shite DS pulled before kickoff and later calling timeouts (this ain't basketball) speaks directly to the person he actually is, not the person he publicly claims to be. he never had a chance to show his full arse in this series until last night, due to Spurrier's presence. I expected exactly what I saw from that jackass.

bowl game be damned, the 2017 opener in Charlotte better see a Gamecock program ready to physically cut the arse of everyone on its schedule.

I'm going to have to watch it again, sober, to try to remember every aspect of what happened last night but ... what I do remember was really bad. They bent us over and went in dry.

I don't remember ever thinking we quit though. From what I remember we kept fighting ... we were out-manned, out-depthed, out-talented.

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the opponent's behavior from coaches to players last night should stick with him for years to come. he's been a part of many rivalries, but never a blood feud that has involved schools with a history born as ours.

the petty shite DS pulled before kickoff and later calling timeouts (this ain't basketball) speaks directly to the person he actually is, not the person he publicly claims to be. he never had a chance to show his full arse in this series until last night, due to Spurrier's presence. I expected exactly what I saw from that jackass

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Yeah, I never really saw Dabo Sweeney and his team like that before. They made it an effort to be total douchebags.

I mean, Dabo was facing a completely new staff that never even did any trash talking this week. Why be a prick?

As for the game, like one poster said...where they are at their best, we are at our worst. It was a complete mismatch and a total embarrassment. I hope recruits forget about this one quickly.

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I'm going to have to watch it again, sober, to try to remember every aspect of what happened last night but ... what I do remember was really bad. They bent us over and went in dry.

I don't remember ever thinking we quit though. From what I remember we kept fighting ... we were out-manned, out-depthed, out-talented.

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We competed worse than the FCS and mid-major opponents that Clemson played against this season. Competed worse than any other ACC basketball school they played. This is our in-state rival game where you're supposed to throw stats and records out the window. We threw our game-plan and effort out of ours...

After the surprising win over Tennessee, our defense has been back-sliding with their tackling effort with each game. Where we saw some semblance of improvement, I now can't say there is any with the way the defense has played the last 2-3 weeks. And Bentley seems to have lost whatever confidence he had early on, although I know those games were played at home.

I won't ever mind.....well, too much.....if we lose games as long as the team fights hard to the end and competes. But losing with little effort, like the game don't matter, nauseates me to no end. And to do it while losing badly to Clemson - I have no words to describe what I feel....

I don't think we ever quit. They're just better.
The whole "they wanted it more" cliche is a load of BS.
Talent then coaching is far superior to "wanting it" don't tell me those kids on our roster "didn't want it" in a prime time game against a national title contending hated rival.
Our youth, inexperience, lack of talent, preparation and coaching is what fricked us, not effort.

I need Muschamp to have this one get under his skin for life. No more playing to simply win. Foot on the gas the whole game, every game. I pity the team when bowl practice starts, Coach Boom started re-emerging on Saturday.

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What's going on?

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I'm talking about paying for better talent.