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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.

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.

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Posted by scrooster

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Posted on 9/3/19 at 8:15 am to Sunbeam

Sunbeam .... it's a common theme these days. I keep hearing, almost exactly what you just typed, more and more these days. At least when it comes to college football.

Recruiting and TV has just about ruined it for some.

I think that's why a lot of Baby Boomers like myself, those of us born between 1946-1964, have gravitated more towards the purer sports as we age. Baseball and Women's basketball.

What bothered me almost as much as the loss, and the obvious failure to plan and execute and the lack of effort, was the aftermath.

By Sunday there were so many rumblings of pointing fingers and laying blame and screaming and hollering at one another and then the talk started about the cliques that had formed ... that seriously bothers me.

I remember well the threat of a boycott under Sparky Woods back in the early 90s. It was a serious threat, the team gathered and voted on it and Taneyhill came in and saved the day. We started 0-5 and it was bad. After we were butt raped by Bama the players had enough and were ready to walk. 92 I think it was, our first year in the league. Then Taneyhill starts against a #16 ranked MSU upsets them. We reeled off 4 of the next 5 and really should have beaten Florida at their place but for a dropped pass late in the game. (Boomer Foster dropped a halfback pass from Brandon Bennett I think it was). We upset Tennessee at our place when Hank (walk on LB) stopped a two point conversion attempt. That game got Johnny Majors fired. Our schedule was so much easier that year.

Taneyhill saved the season and reinvigorated the program. Fans were reenergized.

Let's hope that happens this season starting now. We'll find out what our staff and players are made of beginning now. I don't have much faith because the players are different these days. But I do believe we have a better staff now than we did then under Sparky.

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