SirCocky

It's an OK city. I've been living here for a couple of years but plan to head back south in a few years.

Riverfront park is nice, and there are lots of great outdoorsy things to do around the area.

Huge homeless/drug problem though, based on enablist politics. Most of the problematic areas are between South of Riverside Ave and i90 downtown. Unfortunately, there are many solid restaurants and venues in this area too.

Also, it is pronounced, Spo-Can

I'd take Captain Kangaroo as a coach. The man was quite a pimp back in the day.

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Auburn has an 86 year win streak and counting on South Carolina

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SC won in 1933,Auburn was not able to achieve victory over the Gamecocks until 1996. In continuation with the theme of this thread, that is 63 years of bragging rights over Auburn's measly 23.

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That ruling was adjudicated in court several years ago. There is a legal ruling on it. SoCar didn’t give up on anything - a judge decided.

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Actually, that ruling was about "SC" which South Carolina continues to use on their baseball hats, never was it about "USC". Basically South Carolina quit using the interlocking SC logo and stupidly let the trademark expire. Then began using it again, and the Trojans then field a suit.

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South Carolina has never let the USC logo expire, and I figure they have learned their lesson and will keep using it on some attire. Much like how Southern California, prints shirts with Southern Cal on them only to keep the trademark.

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people put ketchup on bbq?

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Not straight ketchup, using ketchup as a base, sometimes referred to as heavy tomato based. Most of the the BBQ sauces throughout the USA are either tomato paste or ketchup as their main ingredient. It's probably what you are used to eating.

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His hairline is back to normal now, he looks 5 years younger

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Some of that improvement to his hairline is definitely from a touch up spray or a dye product.

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you seem to think black people all have the same views on things

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Because words like "some" or "many" equals "all" right?

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that black people would refuse to go to Clemson simply b/c of a disagreement with the coach on something

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Many players regardless of color choose not to go to schools that offer them because of disagreements or different views with coaching staff, be it political beliefs or football ideology this isn't anything new.

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It sounds to me that if you were a football coach, you would say things even if you don't believe them, because you think you have to say them to get recruits. Doesn't that make you a phony?

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That's a major jump to conclusion, Are you assuming I agree with Dabo's views but hide my beliefs?

I think most if not all players would like to be paid in addition to their scholarship. Many of these schools brings in millions of dollars off these kids that play a very violent and injury prone game and the full cost of school isn't even covered.Seriously, Would you turn down a raise? This is going to be a continuing issue that's not going away anytime soon, there's a reason Northwestern attempted to unionize.

Anyway Dabo's a heck of a recruiter and finds ways to convince and bond with players even if they might have an initially poor first impression of him from his interaction with the media. Now with a national title it is going to be even harder to recruit against him.

It definitely annoys me a that we haven't beat you guys since joining the SEC. I guess it surprises me a bit you guys try to sell the 84 years thing so much, heck we had the last win before the 63 break between play.

Anyway to answer question, none of them really. I probably dislike Tennessee the most though, mainly because of Haynesworth, all the close losses, and how they once recruited the Carolinas so heavily... oh yeah and they're orange.

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why hasn't SC been the better football program across time

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I'll actually give you a somewhat reasonable answer to that question, a lot of factors to consider over history.

-Tillmanism: Clemson's founder had a grudge against what he viewed as the "elitists" at USC and other schools (The Citadel), during his time in office. He did a pretty good job defunding USC and thus USC became the smaller of the two main state schools.

(The effects of Tillman's past policies began to lessen post WW2 when USC began to rapidly expand as few Vet wanted to go to a military school like Clemson, SC became the largest university in the state again. During the era of the late 1940s through the 50s SC's win total vs Clemson significantly increased up until SC's departure of the ACC.)

-Being Independent for decades- Leaving the ACC and being independent set SC back facility wise for years in comparison to other schools by the 90s and early 2000s. Also pretty much destroyed the basketball program at the time. Basically 1970s when SC became independent you'll notice Clemson start racking up a significant numbers of wins over SC again.
-Fundraising- honestly I'll admit in the past Clemson fans seemed to care more about donating to the football program than USC graduates/fans, even if all they had to give was potatoes. Also Clemson has a bit more of a "football comes first" over other sports in comparison to SC.

So really I'd say the two largest factors would be Tillman's defunding policies of USC after the founding of his university and SC going independent are probably the greatest contributing factors to SC's lack of success/Clemson's win total over SC.

There's so many factors to take in to account for coaching these days. Schools that may be viewed as top tier/prestigious some coaches may be totally uninterested in. Talent pool, money, and prestige I think LSU is very close to that top ten in those categories, but it is also high pressure and I think the right coach needs to enjoy what the region/culture has to offer.