re: Post game thoughts...kinda chilled out now

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Conway HS had a situation in 1989 when 31 of 37 black players boycotted the team for the season when the white AD's kid was the starting QB instead of the black kid. It was an absolute nightmare for the football team and the entire community. I hope it isn't a race thing. In this day and age, that will devolve into something very nasty very quickly.

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Damn .... I remember that. I had this friend name Derwood, used to work for PYA and his people serviced my restaurants. Nice guy, huge Conway fan and I remember him telling me about that when he came to visit after we were recovering from Hugo and I was down there with one of the lowcountry stores. He was some kinda pissed. Conway was big time back then.

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Conway HS had a situation in 1989 when 31 of 37 black players boycotted the team for the season when the white AD's kid was the starting QB instead of the black kid. It was an absolute nightmare for the football team and the entire community. I hope it isn't a race thing. In this day and age, that will devolve into something very nasty very quickly.

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If that happens here, I am going to hang up my fan card.

The Gamecocks are the last thing that really ties me to watching sports of any sort. I still like to watch college football for what seems to be a good matchup. I try to watch Washington State (because Leach). But that's it. And if not for the Gamecocks I'd watch as much college ball as I do NFL - which is like 5 minutes here or there, every other week.

Look this site doesn't have any shortage of curmudgeons (of any age). No one wants another get off my lawn rant.

But I do not like what college football has turned into. The stupid amounts of money they spend on it, the recruiting, ...

People like Urban Meyer, Art Briles, ...

Want to know something? I don't idolize people like Nick Saban. I actually have contempt for him. Muschamp seems more likeable (wonder about his balls though) but a grown man having to slob the knobs of 18 year old people I would actively try and avoid in normal life...

I ask myself, do I even like the people engaged in this sport? My own team even? And if I don't, why am I watching this crap.

One Brice Thompson cover-up, one emo drama playing out, and I'm done. Walking away forever.

And that ought to matter to the powers that be. Because in my family the ONLY people who really follow football are OLD. The younger ones I'm not sure my nephews have actually watched more than a few minutes of any football game in over a decade.

I know my oldest nephew will watch a cooking show or a hunting show - while some big game he never heard about is playing is on another channel. Christ he wouldn't know the slightest thing about it. He might have a vague idea Oklahoma is supposed to be a famous school, but he'd be drawing a blank on the University of Kansas or Oklahoma State.