I may take some heat from you hardcore Gamecock football fans (my friends included) about this post, but I've gotta put it out there.
I've read recent posts how some of you are excited about the upcoming college football season. I've seen the countdowns on facebook. I know it's coming soon- in the blink of an eye it will be here. However, I am just.not.feeling.it. Call me disillusioned and you'd probably be right. Oh sure, I'll go to a few games to tailgate and watch many, many games on TV. And I may get excited about the actual fact that there are games on all the time. But I'm not excited about my Gamecocks. I'm over Steve Spurrier, and I am sick of reading the paper every day, only to find that YET ANOTHER of our football players has been arrested. And then, when Spurrier keeps them on the team, it makes my discontent with our football program that much worse.
We're the laughing stock of the state- ask any Clemson fan. We are ALWAYS in the paper for bad behavior or stupidity on the part of our players, and then they face little to no repercussions. It makes me WANT to see them fail. Yes, I said it. I want to see those thugs fail. Until actions are punished appropriately, I am taking it out on the whole team, not just the individuals commiting the crimes.
I want some new life in our football program. I'm tired of has-beens. And say what you want, Spurrier is a has-been. Holtz was a has-been. I want someone young, someone fresh, someone a-la-Darrin Horn (that's our basketball coach, if you didn't already know). I want someone who is a disciplinarian, who doesn't take any crap. You screw up, you're gone, that simple- Spurrier should take a page from Ray Tanner's book (that's our baseball coach). Tanner doesn't put up with shit. He believes guys make mistakes, but he doesn't reward them for it or turn a blind eye. He removes them from the team- just.that.simple. Nobody should be above the law and the rules, especially not thuggish football players.
So, there you have it. I'm fed up. I don't care if I go to a game this year at this point. In fact, I might not. I enjoy the tailgating and will go for that when the mood strikes me, but I'm not wasting my hard-earned money on a ticket to see a bunch of thugs take the field after they've been out getting wasted on Thursday night in Five Points. And yes, this happens- I've seen it with my own eyes. In fact, it's so bad that one bar has a shot named after a football player that is a frequent customer in that bar. Really?!? Is that the image we wish to portray? I guess so since the behavior is being condoned.
Well, Gamecock Football and Coach Spurrier, you're this.close to losing a fan permanently. I'm a Gamecock to the core, but I'll just pull for the other sports. My money and my time are not going to a program that is corrupt.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
i wont' get to go to many AU games this year but i am excited about football season and i know it's going ot be a bad year for us with a new coach and all!
ReplyDeleteI love how passionate you are about your posts! (Most of the ones Ive seen) I agree 100% with your logic on the team - F* up and you're off.
ReplyDeleteI know how you feel! I'm not a "die-hard" Carolina fan like my husband, but still, there's got to be something done to put us in the news in a good way! I don't crave football season per say for the simple fact all of my Friday nights and Saturdays are spent at games thanks to being a coach's wife (ha ha), but I wouldn't trade it for the world!
ReplyDeleteAmen. I was raised a Carolina football fan, but it has become so frustrating lately. I've decided in the last few years just to keep supporting my Wofford team. Feel free to join. We need all the fans we can get. :)
ReplyDeleteAs an avid Tennessee fan and long time Spurrier hater, I feel your pain, sweets.
ReplyDeleteditto! i'm not excited either-- i'm actually looking forward to being home alone with the baby while todd goes to the games. i'm sure i'll go to some of them, but i hate to sweat. i think i'll skip september!
ReplyDeleteI can't STAND Spurrier! I think he is an arrogant jerk and I don't think he is a good coach. I said this was the last year I will be getting season tickets and I really mean it. I've been out of college now for 3 years and you summed up all of my feelings about USC football. I just don't understand why our players are such bad people. Probably because they get away with it, not sure.
ReplyDeleteOn a much lighter point, have you seen the fairgrounds lately?! They redid them and they really are nice!
i don't get so much bothered by the lack of good judgment on the kids parts because that is true at all schools. they all have thugs. (but also some great nice kids. my cousin foxy foxworth is a walk on. so cheer extra hard if he gets to play!) and some schools are simply better at even cheating and don't care because it in the long term makes them better (lots of our fellow sec schools, you know who you are!). but i have just in general lost hope and it is so hard to get excited when we always disappoint. everyone in town jokes that my parents owe us therapy for dragging us to games since we could walk.
ReplyDelete...there is always next year. can;t wait to not say that again! but i am with you about attendingall the games. i can't get excited enough to come up to sc state when i know its just always going to be disappointed. i mean wofford almost beats us.
its not steve. its the chicken curse. i am convinced.
I definately share in your dislike of Spurrier (that whole I went to Tennessee thing). I also share in your disappointment of your team's performance. So ditto to everything in your post!
ReplyDeleteI was in the HRTM department so I knew a lot of the football players, and yes, pretty much what you've said is true. When I was a student I only knew 1 or 2 of those guys that were real sweethearts or standup guys.
ReplyDeleteI have more to add to this, but I'll have to save it for later, as I probably don't want to put it on the internet.....
ok im not gonna lie when i started reading this post i was like "SAY WHAAAAAAAT' but i totally agreed with you by the end of the post!
ReplyDelete- a little side note- clemson fans will always be laughing at us - i hate them so much.
i didn't get season tickets again b/c they raised the pricees and that YES crap. maybe if we started winning some games it'd be different.
i feel ya girl, i am however SUPER excited for college football!
I am not excited or even interested in USC football either! Xoxo-BLC (your favorite CU fan)
ReplyDeleteI know you'll find this hard to believe coming from a Clemson fan but I do feel for you. So many young people look to sports to give them the structure and sense of belonging that they might not otherwise feel at home. Part of the job for ANY coach is to have high expectations for conduct and what it means to be a part of a team. It seems like that might be lacking in Spurrier's strategy.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I agree with ya. I'm SO over the hype. I think there are a lot of out there that feel this way. Every year at the end of the season I feel like a little kid who got my balloon popped. Sigh. I might have to start rooting for TN, my dad's team.
ReplyDeleteYou can always turn to the "dark side." We'd love to have you as a fan. :-D
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