re: F.ck You Muschamp, Tanner and most of all The Board of Trustards

I don’t care what you do. I said I’m happy to let all opinions and feelings be shared hear regardless of my own personal opinion.

But yes, I personally feel there is a difference in being legitimately critical and being a Negative Nancy that goes out of their way to complain about everything.

Muscuck out here knighting for social justice, how about we get some justice and get rid of you and redneck Ray? How about that?!

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How about that?!

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Ray Tanner’s chances of losing his job as AD in the next two years are much higher than Muschamp’s are.

I don’t think Tanner will get booted from the school, but he will not be our AD that much longer
Muschamp definitely has atleast 2 more years

So lets get to the meat and potatoes and I don't want to hear it can't be done. I've done it 50 times in my 40 years on the planet.

How do we remove certain BOT's? I'm off the next 8 months, am funded enough to work this like a full time job. And believe it or not, am connected with some of our biggest donors. I'll hang up and listen to the old heads. I want names and how they get flushed, I'll work on the rest.

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The most overused and misused word on all of TD.

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Yea but TRC is a cool baw

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How do we remove certain BOT's?

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Political pressure. That's about it.

And to impose that pressure you'd need the support of the connected and influential individuals who command the attention of the legislature... in other words, the Good Ol' Boys who are the very people that are keeping these shitstains in their positions in the first place.

So the likelihood that the Trustees that have enabled this mess are removed from their positions is virtually non-existent IMO.

So the bottom line is this, " are those positions appointed or voted in"? I agree with what you're saying about the backdoor favors but I'm just asking.

So what is it exactly you're insinuating?

There are so many problems with our BOT, but the most immediate and biggest problem is that the appointments are virtually for life, unless a member just wants to step aside. And then when a new member needs to be replaced, it's going be screened by the legislative delegation for the specific judicial circuit that the member represents.

I'll give you an example. I live in Horry County, which is a part of the 15th Judicial Circuit. The BOT member for my circuit is J. Egerton Burroughs. He's been on the BOT for almost 15 years. The reason he's on the BOT is because of his political connections and his last name. His family is an old Conway family whose company owned and developed almost all of the Grand Strand from Cherry Grove down to Murrells Inlet. He got his undergraduate degree from Sewanee.

So how does he become a BOT member? Because the selection process is screened by the legislators who represent Horry and Georgetown Counties, the two counties in the 15th Judicial Circuit. And while this area of the state is pro-Gamecock, there are still legislators from here who have zero allegiance to USC. In fact, there are probably some Clemson fan legislators outwardly hostile to it. Beyond that, politicians are in the game for power and wealth. And having a man as powerful and wealthy as J. Egerton Burroughs owing you a favor for recommending his appointment to the BOT is financially beneficial to all of those Horry and Georgetown County legislators.

This entire process keeps normal people out of the university's BOT. You could sooner get elected to public office than you could be selected to be on the BOT. The problem is though, until we have structural change to the BOT, nothing substantive will change in our athletic department.