RoyalAir
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re: Best to worst hc in sec 2026 version from the top to thee bottom.
Posted by RoyalAir on 12/2/25 at 3:18 am to Vince Lombardi
Beamer isn't last, therefore list is shite.
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re: Just how bad the South Carolina athletic program is right now
Posted by RoyalAir on 12/1/25 at 6:04 pm to CarolinaGamecock99
No other athletic department in the country is as poorly run, but has the fan support we do.
It's an abomination.
It's an abomination.
re: How did UCLA, VT and OK State get better hires than the SEC openings
Posted by RoyalAir on 12/1/25 at 1:19 pm to Nasty_Canasta
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UCLA could have potential to be a much better job
If they were still in the Pac12, then sure. They could be up there with Oregon, Southern Cal, and Utah any given year.
Being in the B10 is atrocious for them.
Good friend is an alum. That program is deader than a doornail.
re: How did UCLA, VT and OK State get better hires than the SEC openings
Posted by RoyalAir on 12/1/25 at 1:10 pm to Utah_CUtiger
Franklin, for one, had already been in-conference, and wouldn't have been appealing to anyone other than USC or UK. Neither were open when he was finalizing with VaTech.
OK State is always going to have ties to Texas, and only Arkansas would have been a fit there. Not sure he was ever in play for the Hogs, and I'm not sure if that was on him or Arky.
Chesney is the wildcard. UCLA isn't a good job. I figured he would have stayed at JMU for another year and see how the 26 openings went.
But to answer your original question, it's a pressure cooker. Some guys thrive on that and chase it down. Others would prefer a relatively easier path.
OK State is always going to have ties to Texas, and only Arkansas would have been a fit there. Not sure he was ever in play for the Hogs, and I'm not sure if that was on him or Arky.
Chesney is the wildcard. UCLA isn't a good job. I figured he would have stayed at JMU for another year and see how the 26 openings went.
But to answer your original question, it's a pressure cooker. Some guys thrive on that and chase it down. Others would prefer a relatively easier path.
re: SEC dominates list of college football’s most watched teams
Posted by RoyalAir on 11/26/25 at 11:31 am to GoGators1995
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6 primetime games + I believe your game with VT was the only game on that day.
We can't play ourselves.
Jim Mora (don't call him Jr) to Colorado State
Posted by RoyalAir on 11/26/25 at 11:08 am
Sneaky good hire. Mora was rock solid at UConn, and was pretty darn good at UCLA - certainly the best that they've had in a long time.
Colorado State is a really tough job. Surprised Mora didn't hang for a better gig.
Colorado State is a really tough job. Surprised Mora didn't hang for a better gig.
re: As expected, unfortunately, Shane Beamer will return as South Carolina coach in 2026
Posted by RoyalAir on 11/26/25 at 8:40 am to Lonnie Utah
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I hear you, but that assumes coaching is only about X’s and O’s. It’s not. It’s also recruiting, culture, and keeping a locker room together.
If the SOB could just grow up and hire a competent OC, he'd be perfect for this program. There's an awful lot to like about how he has built everything, excepting the offense.
I want to believe he's capable. I want to, anyway.
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The man almost beat Alabama and A&M on the road with half the talent.
Tf with this "half the talent" BS.
This has been documented, ad infinitum, on these boards. SC has underperformed considering the talent on the roster. It's mismanaged, buried in depth charts (RB, specifically). It's talent that has kept SC in games, and coaching that has lost it, not the inverse.
re: SEC dominates list of college football’s most watched teams
Posted by RoyalAir on 11/26/25 at 7:27 am to Old School Tex
Top 12 in the country, and our team is 4-7.
Rag on Carolina all you want, but that's absolutely impressive.
Rag on Carolina all you want, but that's absolutely impressive.
re: Worst Athletic Director 8 Person Playoff Bracket
Posted by RoyalAir on 11/25/25 at 1:16 pm to captdalton
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The only people who seem to think Ray Tanner is horrible are a handful of South Carolina fans. Most people don’t even realize he was South Carolina’s AD.
This is a long-winded way of saying, "I know nothing about the rest of the conference."
Tanner was handed Spurrier, Staley, Frank Martin, and a back-to-back NC baseball program.
In ten years, he royally fricked up the football replacement for Spurrier, by publicly getting rebuffed by Tom Herman. Then, while he's negotiating at Kirby Smart's house, he gets rugpulled by UGa. Tanner roams around, publicly interviewing and flirting with Wille Taggart and Rich Rodriguez before hiring Muschamp, who was a single year removed from being a dismal failure at UF. After Muschamp failed (and insulted the program in the interim), Tanner hires Beamer, without really looking at anyone else.
Staley, thankfully, has stayed.
Martin takes SC to the Final Four, a year after being the first team in SEC history to win 20+ games and getting snubbed from the tourney. Tanner was partially responsible for that snub, because he had no ability to lobby power. Instead, Vandy went to the tournament that year, with a literal 500 record. When Martin does get SC on the map, Tanner shits all over it by bungling the ceremonies so poorly that Martin complains in the press about a lack of institutional support (and he wasn't wrong). Enter Paris, who wasn't nearly ready for a job of this size after only 3 years at UTC. Last year's SC team was almost winless in conference (despite having an NBA lottery pick), and this year's team looks worse.
Finally, Tanner took a program that was rhe jewel of the AD in baseball, and through three head coaches has driven it into the dirt so dadgum far that I'm not sure it ever recovers.
Tanner is the worst AD, overall, in the history of the SEC, and I'm not sure it's close.
re: Noah Hawley to produce Far Cry series for hulu
Posted by RoyalAir on 11/25/25 at 10:56 am to Saint Alfonzo
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His name is Robert McElhenney III. So he changes his traditional Irish name, to hell with with his father and grandfather, because other people can't spell it? That's dumb. No one ever gets other peoples' names correct, it's part of life. To me, it comes across as simply an ego thing
If memory serves, his parents split up early, and he didn't get on with his dad too well, aside from pulling for the Eagles.
His mom is a lesbian, and has been with the same woman for a very, very long time. Don't think he has much affinity for his last name.
re: Say something nice about your school’s rival
Posted by RoyalAir on 11/25/25 at 9:41 am to FootballFrenzy
Their campus is close enough to Georgia that we can pretend they're not in SC.
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Beamer is a good coach, he has tow hands tied behind his back at SC and I am not dogging you guys but compared to other sec programs
This is a pretty laughable take.
You think talent is the reason SC lost to aTm? Or Bama? Or Oklahoma? Or Mizzou?
No. It was pure coaching and mentality. Brent Key would have this exact same SC team in the playoffs. So would Elko. So would Drinkwitz. So would DeBoer. The only one I wouldn't trade Shane for, heads up, is Venables - who was in Shane's exact same position last year (needing to finally get an OC correct or get fired).
re: The truth about Beamer and South Carolina
Posted by RoyalAir on 11/18/25 at 11:55 am to KeyWestCuban
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Our mediocre program led by Billy Napier was 2-0 against Beamer
Another blown 4th quarter lead by Beamer.
One of those games was a Carolina blowout.
Until it wasn't.
re: The truth about Beamer and South Carolina
Posted by RoyalAir on 11/18/25 at 9:46 am to southpawcock
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I feel completely justified in wanting to switch my NFL team from the Falcons, if only in how much shite I have to deal with being a South Carolina football fan which I cannot change (born into it, and alum).
Preach.
If there were a way to turn off my Carolina Fandom, I'd do it. I just can't.
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McKay
Found the problem. Blank absolutely must remove this menace.
re: The truth about Beamer and South Carolina
Posted by RoyalAir on 11/18/25 at 9:29 am to southpawcock
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This is the issue with most of our fanbase. Happy to collect moral victories.
It's a half-hearted coping mechanism.
The sad reality is that SC behaves like a mid-major, while being in a major conference. Leadership, or lack thereof, in the AD chair has gotten us to this point. Hyman was an a-hole, but he ran the AD like an Italian train station.
Tanner never got going, and was in the seat for 10 years. That's insane. There's not a single program that is better off now than it was when Hyman left. Most are substantially worse.
I don't have a lot of faith in Donati. He's working on capital improvements, and I get that. But he's going to have to replace all three major men's coaches in short order (even though I really like Paris as an idea, if not the results). We should have hired Ryan Alpert in AD, who is now at GT. But, we're stupid.
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They should, but they won't. These dumbasses will never commit to the full rebuild they should have committed to going into 2021.
I don't see how the post-Ryan years were anything less than a full rebuild.
Bijan, London, and Penix were a promising trio, albeit hamstrung by a poor coaching staff.
As someone else pointed out, the Falcons invested heavily in a vet QB *and* a future starter, and now look to have neither. Cousins has been dogshit since midway last year.
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This was not about the players, you have NFL talent on this roster on both sides of the ball. This was strictly coaching and poor leadership
Exactly. Beamer is a very good Recruiting Coordinator - certainly the best we've ever had. But he's a pretty horrible gameday coach. Elko and Klein ran circles around him in the second half. Just like DeBoer. Just like Drink. Just like Kiffin.
When talent is equal, or even moderately close to equal, coaching wins. And there's not a game this season where Beamer outcoached his opponent. The end of the first half was a sterling example. First and goal from the 9, and you had all 3 timeouts with around 19 seconds left. That should have been three shots to the end zone, settle for three. Poor planning made a kick necessary on 3rd down.
Was that the difference in the game? No, of course not. But it was an unforced error in a season full of them.
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want SCar back in Omaha
I don't think I'll live long enough to see us be competitive in baseball ever again.
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If I were in your shoes I'd want to fix the Tanner at AD thing first then go find a football coach.
Tanner is gone from the AD chair. Hired some slapdick at TCU to replace him last spring.
Problem is Donati whiffed on the baseball coaching change in the spring, and may need a basketball coach, too. He's inherited a dysfunctional program all the way around. Tanner paying dividends all over the place.
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