University of South Carolina head football coach Steve Spurrier has had his share of run-ins with the press, but this week he rewarded a pair of reporters with cash prizes for correctly answering a college football trivia question.
During a press conference to discuss the hiring of new defensive line coach Deke Adams, Spurrier asked the assembled press corps if they could name all four of the Division I-A college football programs which have won eleven games in each of the last two seasons.
Obviously Spurrier’s Gamecocks are in that elite group … but who else?
Well, if you answered Alabama, Oregon and Stanford you’d be correct. In fact two reporters at Spurrier’s press conference were able to correctly recall all four teams, and the 67-year-old coach rewarded each of them with an envelope containing a $100 bill.
Bizarre …
Anyway while we’re on the subject of trivia questions, this website used to harp incessantly about how Spurrier’s teams imploded down the stretch after fast starts. In fact during his first five years at the helm of the USC program, the Gamecocks were a dismal 12-19 in games played after October 15.
Needless to say that’s no longer the case. Over the last three seasons Spurrier’s teams have gone 16-6 in games played after October 15 (including an 11-2 mark over the last two seasons).
That’s clutch. And in addition to being indicative of the talent Spurrier’s staff has been able to assemble, we think it’s also a credit to the Gamecocks’ improved conditioning.
In addition to back-to-back school-record 11-win seasons, Spurrier has also led the Gamecocks to back-to-back Top Ten finishes – yet another first for the USC program.
Can he pull it off again in 2013?
Yes … if Jadeveon Clowney has anything to say about it.
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Pic: Travis Bell, Sideline Carolina
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I loves me som J’Davon Clownie
Great post COLONEL. You racist freak.
Bizarre????….having some good humor w/ the media by a Legendary coach…who gave 2 guys the story of their lives…you call that Bizarre…
Bizarre is: Thinking you, as a Governor, can sneak off to Argentina to see yo’ Ho’…while you leave the state and your wife and kids w/ a story about a mountain hike…
That’s “Bizarre”…
And then hiring leftwing reporters at a libertarian lobbying outfit to threaten ‘scorched Earth’ on the General Assembly if they impeach you…That’s “Bizarre”…
Then coming out from under your Daddy’s Silver Spoon to offer to run for the US House…
FITS, you’re too F&*#in Stupid to know what you see when you’re lookng at it…That’s a big deficiency when you’re trying to pass yourself off as you are…
Back to football…
Blah blah blah so mad!! <<<< what BigT sounds like to us
SC football season is never really over,is it?
It’s just amusing to keep talking about last season. Don’t you think?
I was talking with some buddies today and I really couldn’t remember where the Clemson game was next year. Seriously. It took me a minute to remember last year’s beatdown up there in Clemson Stadium. I know it’s only four in a row, but they do start to run together a little bit. Probably a bit more so for Clemson students and football team members, and maybe the coaches.
Sure it is…that Outback Bowl was way, way in the past. What is Spurrier thinking by talking about a season that ended 26 days ago?
Pointing out this awesome accomplishment the team shares with Alabama, Oregon and Stanford will have no effect on gaining or holding recruits, right?
He’s just living in the past I guess. If that’s the case, and 26 days is a long time, I know some fans of another team that are living in the Stone Age.
Nicely played suh; nicely played…
what man 1980 is still going on in Pickens County
Name the only team with 11 wins the last two years that didnt win a conference championship, didnt play for a conference championship, but did have the fifth best record in their conference both years.
…. who? —- don’t keep us guessing
and still wipped clemsux ass again. clemson would have been only 8th in the SEC
Clemsux is in the a she she. An sec school should beat them every year. Funny, the win over clemsux still left you holding the fifth place trophy. Eleven wins is a heck of a deal but USC is no more elite than clemsux is better than LSU.
Eleven wins is a meaningless achievement when you’re playing Kentucky (the football team), Wofford, and the Louisana School of Barbiology and Cosmetology every year.
The perception of the SEC as being a stacked power conference is a laughable farce after Clemson proved on the field their program is now better than LSU and a vaunted 11 win lamecock team eeeking out a win against a plodding big ten team.
yawwwwn
So Jim, you’re saying that Clemtech is a better team than the Gamecock team that is preparing to beat you for the fifth time in as many years? You must have gotten one of those two year degrees before Clemson College was renamed “University” in 1974. I read your thesis on “The benefits of lowered rear tire pressure in a muddy corn field” while having my oil changed. You crack me up, man.
scsince60, your reading comprehension skill mirrors SC’s skill on the gridiron.
I have no problem saying Clemson is not a better team until it proves otherwise on the gridiron.
Just as I have no problem saying Clemson proved their program is now better than LSU since they won the game.
Spurrier is simply planting a seed in sports writers’ feeble minds that his program is worthy of a top tier designation for next year (note the clever pun). Spurrier also knows it’s a lot easier to start high than to climb once the season begin.
Sports writers look at the prioir season record when starting out the rankings for the next year, regardless of talent. This is why the real USC started out ranked and proceeded to stink up the rankings with undeserved votes even after their team was beaten to a pulp week after week.
When grandpa superior schedules teams other than the vaunted Pirates of Eastern Carolina I’ll cheer right along and (GASP)perhaps even buy a ticket. The sheeple that fill Williams-Brice year after year and think they’re getting a swell deal need to take a long look in the mirror and ask “why are we paying out the ass for such a shitty product”?
“SEC as being a stacked power conference is a laughable farce..”
SEC has seven consecutive National Championships split between four different teams. The conference finished the season with three teams in the top five and five in the top ten.
The ACC had only one the top ten and two in the entire top 25.
Seriously, are you retarded?
By the way haha, thanks for wiping Clemson’s ass. That helps when you wear white pants.
Hey james the foot up your ass soldier, and the might tigers beat who? LSU with 9 potential 1st and 2nd round draftee’s that didnt want to play in the game. I know you oh so wanted to put Vandy in there as an cupcake opponent too, but the fact is Vandy beat NC state which beat FSU, which beat you, so you can’t say that. Clemson played no one in a game that mattered other than USC last year and they lost that game. Clemsux played Ball st. Furman, Boston College, Duke, Wake, Maryland. Do you notice how all the teams in the ACC are in the laughable column? Its like Boise st. Play no one and beat em, then cry you should have more respect except for at least winning against no one, however Boise St actually beat a team that mattered when the game itself mattered. The taters didn’t. Go pat yourself on the back for being the world’s tallest midget by playing in the ACC while you still get beat by the only team that you had to play in a game that both teams actually cared to play in. If Clemsux played the schedule we played this year they would have been at best 8-4. Losses to Florida, SC, UGA, and when they cared LSU at LSU. Vandy may have beaten you too, seeing as how you didn’t beat the team, that beat the team, that beat you. 5 peat next year is 100%.
Fifth
New Years Day was lousy for me. I was coming down with the virus that is ravaging the Midlands, again.
The only highlight of 2013-01-01 was THE GAME!
It would’ve been so easy for the Gamecocks to fold up again, but that blown call by Big Ten refs fired up USC, specifically, Clowney.
BOOM! I saw a Facebook post where NASA’s Mars Curiousity rover found Vincent Smith’s helmet.
….(chuckle)
Except for “tooting your own horn”
The point of this was????
Big deal……
Since Spurrier and his South Carolina fans are so damn “shit hot” let him, his football team and suporters of U. of South Carolina fix the Dept. of Revenue fuck-up, rising health care costs, and the quagmire that is the Middle East.
sports have nothing to do with any of those. You sparkle city out the JEAN POOL
Well since some of you think Spurrier can walk on water, let him have a shot at something else besides a fucking football team that is actually a bunch of mercernaries(I’m talking both college and pro football here) for the masses that has evolved into the equivalent of modern day bread and circus.
Fuck a bunch of college and pro football. Sadly, even high school football has been corrupted by the sway of money.
Whores and pimps all!!!!
Few hundred bucks??? Ol’Ball Sac is coming out cheap this year….usually has to shell out loads more than that on his yearly head extraction….but I guess Ol’Limp Cock’s butt is so stretched out now it just pops in and out of there at will…Might even be enough room for BigT to finally crawl out….That’s if he’s not to busy exploring with his tongue …
[U]nwanted [S]tep [C]hildren of the SEC
Bama doesn’t respect you
Florida doesn’t respect you
LSU doesn’t respect you
Georgia doesn’t respect you
We definitely laugh at you chanting SEC SEC SEC like you have ever accomplished anything in the SEC…
much like you Clempson fans we dont need respect from anyone to beat ya. How did Bama’s last trip to SC go?
Who says I’m a Clemson fan? And keep hanging onto that Bama win…you beat them so in someway parts of their multiple titles are USuC’s???
I would hope you were at least a Clemsux fan, because as backwards as most are, they at least have some reason to post in here. If in fact you aren’t that would just make you pathetic as you have nothing in this fight. So you are you a small insignificant little person, or are you just pathertic?
What a dam joke paying reporters for good covrage. the sack has been since he was at florida. just another washed up coot taht cant win shit.
I agree, Coach Spurrier has yet to win a championship, but those butt poundings he has been administering to those really talented, and well coached Clemson squads has been a small consolation. Don’t you think?
I agree, Coach Spurrier has been disappointing. Butt at least Carolina fans can take a little consolation in the butt poundings he has administered to vastly superior, crazy talented, and superbly coached Clemson squads over the past several years. How long can the poor guy’s luck hold out? I’ll bet he’s shaking even now at the thought of facing Tajh again this year in Williams-Brice.
Jim the Foot solider begs to differ. Hell, the SEC only accounted for half the teams in the top ten and produced seven national champions with four different teams. Jimbo must be using Dabo math.
Meanwhile we have Clowney’s Report Card FFFFFD telling us that UGA, a team that has lost badly to USC three in a row, and Florida, a team USC has beaten three out of four, doesn’t respect them. Who cares as long as SC keeps waxing them? Bama came in here with a #1 ranking and got stomped two years ago. When was the last time Tater Tech beat a #1 team? How about never, chump.
Brain damage is rampant on this board.
Butt at least Carolina fans can take a little consolation in the butt poundings he has administered to vastly superior, crazy talented, and superbly coached Wofford, Eastern Carolina, Kentucky, USC (Undergraduate School of Cometology), etc. etc. etc. over the past several years.
Love the loyalty.
Come on grandpa superior, let’s go kick some Terrier ass!!!!!!
wooofukinhoooo
The BLIND loyalty by the in-bred mouth breathers is sick and leads to:
Otherwise sound folk being swept into a war over “states rights” (to own/rape/pillage other human beings)….
Otherwise sound folk being swept into war over the maniacal sound of der Leader’s voice….
And not so sound po mo fo lo info voters sweeping our beloved President into the office at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue over the maniacal sound of his teleprompter riddled vibtrato enhanced voice.
YES WE CAN!
You are nothing if not amusing…Like I posted above…hang onto that bama win…because we all know it resulted in USuC’s National Title….oh wait???
Why doesn’t Clemson try to win the Carolina game anymore? They have better players, heck even a Heisman frontrunners quarterback returning for his senior year. They are certainly better coached. They win all kinds of championships and bowl games easily. Wouldn’t it be smart for Clemson to just line up, and beat the fool out of the Cocks this fall? I know it’s not a conference game, but to hold back and not even try to win four years in a row has got to be disappointing to the younger fans who don’t yet understand Dabo’s grand plan.
Well, in defense of scheduling Wofford, they did give USC a better game than Clemson.
BAMA, Tennessee, Georgia, LSU, Florida, Auburn, Mississippi, Kentucky and Mississippi State make up 9 of the 14 SEC schools…each of these 9 have won at least 1 SEC Championship…so that leaves 4 Vandy, USuC, Arkansas, Texas A&M and Missouri. Let’s give Mizzou and A&M the benefit of the doubt since they have only had 1 season in the league. So that leaves, Vandy, USuC and Arkansas…NO SEC championships …So congratulations on being in the bottom 3. Just remember when you beat your chest to SEC SEC SEC all you’re really doing is living vicariously through the teams who have won. There’s always that 1969 ACC championship to crow about though….
56-17 in a SEC championship game…hold your heads high about that one..39 point loss…worst loss in the history of the Championship game…and THAT is the schools highest football achievement….
5 not 4
You are a retard. Spouting out boring stats about football history makes you the guy to avoid at the Moose lodge. Go tell somebody about the days when Duke was a football powerhouse. All anybody around here cares about is the ass grinding that Spurrier and Co. has been putting on Clemson lately. Six in a row is a very real possibility, bud.
The same team that has pounded Clemson four years in a row? Say it ain’t so.
Hey Retard, oh wait a retard is smarter than you, I am sure since you want to give A & M and Mizzou “the benefit of the doubt” then lets count all the ACC titles Clemsux has in the time USC was actually in the SEC to have a chance to win it. I mean it has to be a bunch since they are so good right? Like a big number, hmmm lets see. 13 for FSU, 3 for Virginia Tech, 2 for Georgia tech, 1 for Mayland, one for Virginia, and one for Wake. Wait there most be some mistake. It seems Clemsux has only one title since USC joined the SEC, but that can’t be because the Taters are supposed to be so good, and that conference sucks. They have the same total as Wake Forest in that span? No. Yes? They really do? I’ll be damned. Damn that sucks. I mean they talk about all of this history yet 14 titles and 13 of them all came before FSU joined to make it at least halfway a worthy conference and funny how since FSU joins almost 40 years after Clemsux that they have only 1 less title. That must sting. I mean surely Clemson has more than just history on their side. It seems they don’t. this cant be true, seriously? Clemsux has to have more than 1 since USC joined the SEC, they have to. And, they dont. 1 title. Wow it makes your argument as full of dung as you are. I mean Clemsux as high and mighty as they are, has finished lower ranked than USC in the last 4 years and got beaten by them too, but they won a pop warner title that even Wake can win, and then got the crap beat out of them in the automatic tie in they never even deserved to be in and then proved it by allowing the most points ever in a BCS bowl game on national TV so bad that even the announcers were laughing at them during the game. seriously everyone in the country laughed and said “West Virginia just scored again” for months and still do. But Clemsux is so good. That couldn’t have happened. I mean they have Dabo. They surely haven’t lost the last 4 games in a row in the series that they claim they are so much better than. I mean history means so much to them this can’t happen. Because way back when means so much right? It has happened, and your team is a joke, your coach is a joke and walking punch line, and you are a joke. Hahahaha 5 in a row is 100% and current and in the present so sit back and listen to grandpa talk about the glory days when he did nana in the butt and actually saw Clemsux win, cause it aint happening now.
Well said, haha.
Well, we haven’t been in the SEC very long relatively speaking, but considering Clemson holds the record for worst bowl loss in BCS history, I find it humorous you big up the SEC Championship.O
Oh, and there’s the fact the ACC had a 6-6 team in their “championship” game. What a joke. We both know that USC would have easily won the Florida State Invitational this year, but who wants to play in that game? Two ranked teams – hilarious.
Speaking of funny shit – how’s the streak against UNC? And when are you girls going to win that first basketball championship? Anybody can have a bad century. Well, you can always come down and see ours. We have them in a couple of conferences.
I guess USC will have to settle for that state championship. With Tater Tech’s recruiting a dumpster fire, that’s not going to be changing anytime soon.
Clemson has won the ACC exactly once since USC joined the SEC. Considering the competition, impressive.
How many teams in the ACC finished in the top ten last year? How many in the top 20? Here’s a hint, it rhymes with Zero.
Well, everyone knows how worthless that ACC title was last year. After all, when your champion gets 70 slapped on them by an unranked Big East Team, you know you need to turn the lights out on that conference.
Fear the thumb, chump.
Oh, you’ll find those basketball trophies next to the two NCAA Championship baseball trophies and the regretfully named Hardee Trophy. That will be the dusty once since it hasn’t left Columbia in over four years.
Perhaps I’ve touched a nerve lol glad to see all that really matters is the in state rivalry to you morons. Yes Clemson got 70 put on them in a BCS bowl (remind me of USuC’s last BCS game…oh wait)……most embarrassing thing to happen to the program to lose by 37…but still your programs highest accomplishment in their “history” was the beatdown to Cam and the Auburn Tigers in your only championship game appearance …so spout off with your stolen mantra of “fear the thumb” and whatever else you’d like because it’s easy for you to say “oh they’re living in the past”..”all they do is talk about history”…it’s easy to condemn someone for that when your “history” only started 4 years ago….unless you count the other 100 years of losing history..
Ya think Taj is ready for another history lesson in ass-reaming?
Well when you can’t win anymore it’s easy to just live in the past. Losers always whine about the past, winners win now, and that’s what we are doing. Did you pull for a team that has just finished in the top 10 for the 2nd year in a row? One that improved on its ranking from the year before, and will again this coming year? That means at least another one even better than the top 10 NATIONALLY before that. USC will be in Atlanta next year for the SEC championship game, and has a good chance to win it. Clemsux will still play for a useless title that everyone laughs at. Funny you claim not to pull for Clemsux, and that no one else cares about USC, yet here you are. You are obviously caring, so be a hypocrite. Those who don’t care would bother posting. You suck and are pathetic. hahahahaha. It’s even funnier because you seem to know it. Hahahahha really if you don’t care, why post? Truth is for some reason you do care. You are so laughable. Does your mommy know you are such a joke? Little baby pudding pants. Hahahahaha
“it’s easy to condemn someone for that when your “history” only started 4 years ago….unless you count the other 100 years of losing history.”
So says the fan of a program that’s never won a conference championship in basketball and never won on UNC’s court.
Aint a team in the country who’d take spurrier over Dabo. not a one.
and you sir are too dumb to insult
Maybe one day ESPN can organize a vote. In the mean time, Ole Spurrier is just bitch slapping Dabo on an annual basis.
oh how true that is
what a nut – although a lifelong Carolina fan, I’ll never understand the ‘evil genius’.
“Aint a team in the country who’d take spurrier over Dabo. not a one.”
I’ve read a lot of dumb shit on fits, but this takes the cake. Hey Jim, since Spurrier came to Carolina he’s been pursued by the University of Miami and also Alabama. Yes, Alabama.
How many people have come knocking at Dabo’s door? Um, zero. His assistants can’t even get a job.
Dabo, like tater tech, is a national joke. You and Clowney Report can keep dusting off those commemorative 1981 NC orange soda bottles and talking about that history, because that’s all you got. USC’s athletic department is raising 20 million a year more than Clemson and the ACC is moribund. You have nothing to sell the SEC and you’re destined to end up languishing in the Big 12 or limping along in the ACC as it slowly disintegrates.
The proof is in the puddding, ladies. Clemson can’t beat USC in anything. The good old day are just that – bygone days. Enjoy rotting in the past.
This is for the idiot VOR that used to post about how much better an academic school Clemson was and that the athletes must be so much smarter than USC’s, and also to prove that the guy with the cute little Clowney fake report card name is a dumbass.
According to OrangeandWhite.com a Clemson website, “Clemson student-athletes posted a 2.99 GPA for the spring semester of 2012, the highest on record, according to data released by Clemson University’s Office of Institutional Research and Planning.”
According to WLTX “USC announced Monday that the school set the highest departmental grade point average (GPA) on record (3.267), based on numbers from the Fall 2012 semester. That broke the previous record of 3.202 set in Fall of 2011. USC athletics officials say Gamecock student-athletes have posted a combined GPA of 3.0 or better for 12 consecutive semesters.”
So as far as Clemson being smarter, it has its highest GPA ever of 2.99, never actually breaking the 3.0 mark and yet USC has 12 in a row over 3.0. Hmmm. That’s 6 years for those of you at Clemson playing sports.
Well Im sure that the football team is smarter right, nope.
“Clemson’s football program had a 2.61 team GPA, just below the all-time record of 2.63 set in the spring of 2008”
According to the same article/story on WLTX as earlier, “USC Football GPA was 2.918”
I know people assume USC athletes less bright, but it seems to me that Clemsux’s is lower. Surely there is a way to spin this into Clemsux being better. Maybe in 1948 the GPA’s were reversed or something. There it is, history. its all they got. But According to this Clemson athletes are not doing too well in that either (at least not in the classroom, and we know not on the field anymore) Bottom line is Clemson sucks at everything. hahahaha
In 1948 anybody who could pay the tuition could attend Clemson. It was a two year degree military school. Since then, it has transformed into a “university” and benefitted by more favorable demographics to have slightly higher admission averages than Carolina, which is twice it’s size, and obliged to admit a more “diverse” student body. Not to much overlap at Clemson with UVA, W and L, or Davidson admission requirements. Anyway, I doubt one would have much fun playing Scrabble with Sammy Watkins.
can’t wait till spring practice…
The SEC chant is actually for all sports and USC has 2 recent national championships in that with a 3rd runner up finish. What do the Taters have?