In order for the gamecocks to get to the next level, muschamp must go

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and could be even better with a better coach.

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Agree

I dont completely agree here, I love to see him bring in a new DC and move TRob to db cach full time, it's obvious he is in over hi head

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Can you imagine Hilinski under Leach

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Well technically Hilinski did play under Leach

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Tanner out A

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I unfortunately don’t see this for a while

I have to disagree with all the Muschamp has to go themes. There have absolutely been concerning issues with this team in year 4. Yet I still believe we are going in the right direction. Our offense has some consistency hiccups that will be corrected with Hilinski at QB. The biggest problem with this team is the secondary which can get fixed with recruiting.

No, I am not happy with the way the season started, but Muschamp is still our best option. Who would we hire if we fired him and payed that enormous buyout? Dino Babers? The guy Maryland just murdered? I do not think he can out recruit Muschamp.

After the Alabama game if this team plays the rest of the schedule with that same focus and aggression we will make a bowl and be competitive with UGA and clemsux. Everyone knew going in with this schedule it was going to be brutal but right now I see no reason to just abandon ship.

I don't even want to think about it honestly, because I don't think this administration would ever have the stones to make a hire like that. We will be stuck with Muschamp through at least 2020, unless he loses every other game this year.

I agree with you overall, I don't think we ever take the next step under Champ, and I actually do like the guy. I wish we could win with him, I really do.

Im not accepting failure. Realistically what are our options? Yes the secondary is bad, but we have a chance to pull in another very solid recruiting class. Muschamps buyout is huge. So, if we fired the coach after the season who would we hire that would do a better job? The recruiting class falls apart and we start rebuilding again. The best course of action this year and probably next year is Muschamp

edit: I just must be unaware of this magical land of elite coaches just waiting for us to hire.

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but we have a chance to pull in another very solid recruiting class.

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Yeah, but that solid recruiting class is something that would be called an utter, total, and miserable failure at schools we play against regularly.

What's the difference getting blown out by 20 points versus 28?

Starting to think this Jimmy and Joe thing is just not going to work for us.

I'd absolutely love to have the coach Kansas State hired to replace Snyder.

Or hire a total balls to the walls OC from the Leach line to be head coach.

Same as always. Usually a top 30 recruiting class, occasionally in the 10 to 20 range. And almost always 7th to 13th or so in the conference.

That recruiting ranking isn't going to change for us. I guess the hope was Muschamp was an ace at finding hard-nosed kids who fit his system. But after four years you see much sign of that?

That said, eh let it play out. We do have the buyout, and that is not inconsequential to us (because we aren't insane like some other SEC schools).

But this isn't working. Not really. I have no idea why either. Les Miles wasn't some game management guru, and life turned out fine.

There is some kind of "It" factor Muschamp doesn't have.

Guess I'm kind of testy because I just saw Mizzou is a 10 point favorite over us. Then we have Kentucky after that, and Georgia two weeks later.

I've thought at times that Jake and Muschamp's total commitment to him was the problem, that we potentially could have been a better team with a guy like Scarnecchia who at least wouldn't lose the game single-handedly.

But even with Hilinski showing the promise he has (and Joyner too, btw), something isn't right about this whole thing. The defense shouldn't be this bad in year four.

And why is it a team like Virginia Tech managed to win games with special teams, while ours look like the Keystone Kops? And that is with our serious, serious practices.

You have some good points but I ask you what good is a recruiting class if you can't coach them up? This is a coach that had top 5-10 classes at Florida that did nothing with them.
Maybe you're right stack the team with talent before bringing in a head coach.

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We have to get Burch, we got Pickens last year and that has to continue. We were at our best when we had elite talent. Right now we do not have that elite talent.

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OK, but that's not where USC is. It doesn't have the ability to draw elite talent consistently. It has to recruit wisely, develop, and out coach others in order to be successful. In short, we have to have what Kentucky has in Stoops.

That's what Muschamp needed to be here, and he isn't. This team isn't working harder than its competition. It doesn't play sound, positional defense. It routinely commits errors and unforced mistakes so as to ensure it cannot upset better teams.

He's not the guy. But I'm not sure that there's a better option out there. And that is truly sobering. He's a midlevel coach for a midlevel program.