Take that Blue Hose

Carolina might want to re-think adding a game to its 2009 schedule that invovles playing Presbyterian at Sarge Frye Field. The game was add due to the prior week's cancelled game with Gardner-Webb. This meeting with Presbyterian was the first match-up for the Gamecocks against the Blue Hose since 1998 and first since PC became a NCAA Division I program.

With that being said the Gamecocks won in extended innings by the score of 2-1 thanks to the bat of Reese Havens. The series dates back to 1901 with Carolina now leading it 39-19.

What would you do?

If you were in Spurrier's shoes with the recent string of bad press associated with the USC football squad, how would you handle it? You know the stuff I am talking about here and here and here and here and not to mention the story here. Then our friend, Ronny Morris writes this today.....the hits keep comin'.

So with all that being said now...what would you do if you were the coach of the gamecocks? Would you put a curfew on the players? Would you ban players from going to Five Points? Or should he simply say the next player who gets in trouble is gone?

Oh and contray to popular belief with upstate media and many IPTAY members...Tommy is not a saint and has some problems of his own to deal with (Vincent should have never been allowed to play in the Peach Bowl after the DUI charge...if Spurrier allowed it with one of his players it would still be in the news 3 months later about how bad he is blah blah blah) but they just don't grab the headlines as easy a gamecock mistakes...why is that?

Did USC show up?

The past two games for USC have been down right ugly.....today No. 4 Tennessee closed the regular season with an 89-56 victory over South Carolina. Read more here. I can truly say that I am ready for the Odom era to end. It was a good ride but it reminds me a lot of the Lou Holtz era....a few highs but too many lows.

Where have I heard this?

Geeez....haven't we heard this crap out of Clemson, SC before....here and here....I am sure that Tommy will find a way to take his team with the great expectations, a weak ACC and a soft schedule and blow it!
I thought the LOHD addressed some of this here and here.

Thoughts?

USC to Bring the Payne

Chris Payne that is....he just reversed course to sign with the Gamecocks as a athlete and we welcome him to the gamecock family.

USC Baseball to square off this weekend

South Carolina (5-2) returns to action on the baseball diamond this weekend with a three-game series vs. Duquesne (0-7) at Sarge Frye Field.

More on the series go here.

Clemson Football Player facing troblue

I am surprised that no news media in the upstate has picked up on this yet.....wait no I am not b/c clemson can do no wrong in the eyes of the upstate media?
Glad to see we are not the only school in the state with some misfits.

Here is the lead in to the story:

According to multiple sources familiar with the situation, Vincent is facing a possible suspension for the entire spring practice because of a violation of team policy. Vincent, who will be a senior in the 2008 season, still has charges pending for a December DUI arrest.

Come to think of it....

Was anyone surprised that Dave Odom's last home game ended in a loss? I must say though I was surprised that the SC baseball team got beat by some forty-niners. And then to read this today...geez...can we get some postive feelings from Gamecock sports?

Final Home Basketball Game for USC

USC, 13-15 and 5-9 in the SEC, will finish out the regular-season home schedule when it hosts Kentucky, 16-11 and 10-4 in the SEC, tonight at 7 pm.

It will be the final home game of head coach Dave Odom's South Carolina career as he is retiring at the end of the season. It is also the final home game of senior Dwayne Day. Day will graduate with a degree in African-American Studies in May.

Let's hope Devan Downey's and Mike Holmes have big games like they did recently against Auburn. Glad to see Mike Holmes finally show up b/c we all know he is good. I also hope, with at least three games to play, Downey breaks the steals record. He is 12 steals from breaking the SEC record and has 3 to go to break the USC record. Chuck Eidson is No. 2 in the SEC with the 93 steals (2000), but the SEC record was set by Arkansas' Clint McDaniel who stole the ball 102 times in 37 games in 1994-95.

Interesting fact of our season thus far ---USC is 9-8 in games decided by seven points or less this season.

Anyway...go cocks - let's finish the season strong!