1. when did Ken Ard become an expert on College Football? I’m pretty sure his only real knowledge about college football comes from his guilty plea for converting campaign funds to SEC Championship tickets.
2. Oversight committee?!? I’m sure the Coop could use some oversight, I work there, I know from whence I speak. The only thing Ken knows about oversight is the 5 years of probation he got from his guilty plea. Committees that meet without any authority are just so much flatulence.
3. Frankly, why should we create another overpaid bloviatorial chief executive to administer a program that frankly isn’t even tied tot the real purpose of the university. An athletic director should be able to handle the job – if he can’t maybe we need a new AD.
Wait, I just figured it out, Ken thinks there’s gubamint gig in this idea of his that only he can fill!
Get rid of current AD Ray Tanner. The only reason he got this job was a payoff for his Baseball coaching. He was an excellent Baseball coach but an abject failure as an AD(hiring proven loser football coach) and then paying him 13 million to leave.
Tanner has been in over his head from day one!
I will never understand why professional, college, high school, and youth travel football teams pay so much for coaches when there are so many experts sitting in the stands and watching on television that can win championships if everyone would just take their advice and use their coaching knowledge and skills.
People have unreasonable expectations of the Gamecocks. I can’t tell you how many people were saying Rattler was in the running for a Heisman because of the numbers he was putting up against meh teams. Similarly people were expecting us to come into a rivalry game with a losing season but somehow miraculously blow out Clemson. The Tigers really didn’t play well at all either, which only makes the loss that much more embarrassing.
There are a lot of flaws on the team that truly hinders them from playing to their fullest potential and it’s going to take time to work those problems out. Maybe Beamer can do that, maybe he can’t, but a coach isn’t a magician. He can’t pull an offensive line that can actually protect the quarterback from his hat or completed passes from his sleeve. Y’all forget that those 11 win seasons and that streak against Clemson they got a while ago were only because of a large amount of work and talent put together over years. Stop talking about Heismans and national championships and start talking about getting back to the Outback Bowl. (Oh, wait, they don’t call it that anymore… Crap!)
For the terminator your team just needs to keep taking the little white pill and don’t worry about our Gamecocks buddy .Don’t worry your Clemson tigers will fall on there face again it’s coming jack you might have won this year but your days are numbered. Dabo will leave for A&M or Alabama and that’s. Buzzard
I’m not a Clemson fan, just pointing out the obvious with the Gamecocks. The good news is it isn’t hard to see what needs to be worked on. They should be expected to perform better next year, a 7 or maybe 8 win season is possible. Reasonable fans set reasonable goals.
CongareeCatfish Top fanNovember 27, 2023 at 9:35 am
O-line protection has been a problem at USC for the last 30 years with the exception of the Spurrier years. Yes, this year we have alot of freshmen on the line, and yes, our backfield ball carriers were decimated with injuries this year….but this is a reoccuring problem. We can attract all kinds of receiver and tight end talent, but we just can’t seem to get the beefy nordic viking or samoan types who can make a wall around a QB so he can execute a play. Dear Lord, Rattler has to be the most sacked QB in program and conference history.
The other problem is almost nobody gets fired by the head coach – and then the problems exacerbate until the head coach gets fired and most of his coordinators and special teams coached get washed away when a new coach comes in.
IV: Stop sucking! Oh wait, that is an impossibility for the Shamecocks.
V: Hire a real coach, not a cheerleader. (Clemson fans are happy for you to keep the cheerleader.)
VI: Break out the Bing Crosby – “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”.
Great article! I’m been a very frustrated Gamecock fan too. I think Beamer is a great recruiter and headed in the right direction. It’s been apparent for decades, something needs to change and this article brings up some great suggestions. Thanks for sharing
As a lifelong South Carolina resident(67 years), and an alum of USC(bachelor’s & master’s), I learned/accepted a long time ago to stop gettmy hopes up in any way, or have any kind of expectations regarding USC football. I mean, let’s face reality here, our football program has been a bottom dweller for essentially its entire history(certainly all but 3-4 of my 66 years on this Earth, anyways), & with the SEC about to become even stronger with the additions of Texas & OU, we just become that much more irrelevant. We simply don’t have the tradition, overall success, pedigree, or investment that schools like UGA, Florida, & Tennessee do. Hell, UK’s football history is even significantly better than ours. It’s always gonna be USC, Vandy, Mizzou(excluding this year), Mississippi St, & Ole Miss(excluding the last few years), as the bottom dwellers/conference punching bags. Go Gamecocks!
Squishy123, no, what he’s really saying is USC football is a lost cause, & fans need to start living in reality in regards to annual expectations. After 100+ years of mostly awful/mediocre football, with zero championships of any kind, I’d think us as a fanbase would understand this by now. I say give Beamer a lifetime contract & let’s just be happy with reaching an occasional bowl game. There’s certainly not ever gonna be a Spurrier walking through those doors again. And, hell, even the Ol’ Ball Coach couldn’t ever get over the hump here. This university celebrates 11 win seasons like it’s a national championship. Embarrassing.
Hey “Colonel”, ancient history. Clemson fans no longer worry about the quitter Spurrier. We are much happier with our recent success, a/k/a 2016 AND 2018 National Championships!! Meanwhile, your clown show is left to embrace what you are – and will always be . . . a women’s basketball school. Congratulations!
An AD is now required to be a hard charging businessman, able to make tough decisions and correct decisions also. Tanner has done neither. A former very successful baseball coach in and of itself does not qualify for this job. His lousy decisions have cost us multiple millions It’s also sad to see how he grovels to the Womans basketful coach also.
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1. when did Ken Ard become an expert on College Football? I’m pretty sure his only real knowledge about college football comes from his guilty plea for converting campaign funds to SEC Championship tickets.
2. Oversight committee?!? I’m sure the Coop could use some oversight, I work there, I know from whence I speak. The only thing Ken knows about oversight is the 5 years of probation he got from his guilty plea. Committees that meet without any authority are just so much flatulence.
3. Frankly, why should we create another overpaid bloviatorial chief executive to administer a program that frankly isn’t even tied tot the real purpose of the university. An athletic director should be able to handle the job – if he can’t maybe we need a new AD.
Wait, I just figured it out, Ken thinks there’s gubamint gig in this idea of his that only he can fill!
Get rid of current AD Ray Tanner. The only reason he got this job was a payoff for his Baseball coaching. He was an excellent Baseball coach but an abject failure as an AD(hiring proven loser football coach) and then paying him 13 million to leave.
Tanner has been in over his head from day one!
I will never understand why professional, college, high school, and youth travel football teams pay so much for coaches when there are so many experts sitting in the stands and watching on television that can win championships if everyone would just take their advice and use their coaching knowledge and skills.
?????
People have unreasonable expectations of the Gamecocks. I can’t tell you how many people were saying Rattler was in the running for a Heisman because of the numbers he was putting up against meh teams. Similarly people were expecting us to come into a rivalry game with a losing season but somehow miraculously blow out Clemson. The Tigers really didn’t play well at all either, which only makes the loss that much more embarrassing.
There are a lot of flaws on the team that truly hinders them from playing to their fullest potential and it’s going to take time to work those problems out. Maybe Beamer can do that, maybe he can’t, but a coach isn’t a magician. He can’t pull an offensive line that can actually protect the quarterback from his hat or completed passes from his sleeve. Y’all forget that those 11 win seasons and that streak against Clemson they got a while ago were only because of a large amount of work and talent put together over years. Stop talking about Heismans and national championships and start talking about getting back to the Outback Bowl. (Oh, wait, they don’t call it that anymore… Crap!)
For the terminator your team just needs to keep taking the little white pill and don’t worry about our Gamecocks buddy .Don’t worry your Clemson tigers will fall on there face again it’s coming jack you might have won this year but your days are numbered. Dabo will leave for A&M or Alabama and that’s. Buzzard
“you might have won this year”
I’m not a Clemson fan, just pointing out the obvious with the Gamecocks. The good news is it isn’t hard to see what needs to be worked on. They should be expected to perform better next year, a 7 or maybe 8 win season is possible. Reasonable fans set reasonable goals.
O-line protection has been a problem at USC for the last 30 years with the exception of the Spurrier years. Yes, this year we have alot of freshmen on the line, and yes, our backfield ball carriers were decimated with injuries this year….but this is a reoccuring problem. We can attract all kinds of receiver and tight end talent, but we just can’t seem to get the beefy nordic viking or samoan types who can make a wall around a QB so he can execute a play. Dear Lord, Rattler has to be the most sacked QB in program and conference history.
The other problem is almost nobody gets fired by the head coach – and then the problems exacerbate until the head coach gets fired and most of his coordinators and special teams coached get washed away when a new coach comes in.
IV: Stop sucking! Oh wait, that is an impossibility for the Shamecocks.
V: Hire a real coach, not a cheerleader. (Clemson fans are happy for you to keep the cheerleader.)
VI: Break out the Bing Crosby – “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”.
Suck it up, Losers!!!!
Mediocrity is a choice.
Great article! I’m been a very frustrated Gamecock fan too. I think Beamer is a great recruiter and headed in the right direction. It’s been apparent for decades, something needs to change and this article brings up some great suggestions. Thanks for sharing
As a lifelong South Carolina resident(67 years), and an alum of USC(bachelor’s & master’s), I learned/accepted a long time ago to stop gettmy hopes up in any way, or have any kind of expectations regarding USC football. I mean, let’s face reality here, our football program has been a bottom dweller for essentially its entire history(certainly all but 3-4 of my 66 years on this Earth, anyways), & with the SEC about to become even stronger with the additions of Texas & OU, we just become that much more irrelevant. We simply don’t have the tradition, overall success, pedigree, or investment that schools like UGA, Florida, & Tennessee do. Hell, UK’s football history is even significantly better than ours. It’s always gonna be USC, Vandy, Mizzou(excluding this year), Mississippi St, & Ole Miss(excluding the last few years), as the bottom dwellers/conference punching bags. Go Gamecocks!
So what you’re saying will fix this team is… more overhead.
Squishy123, no, what he’s really saying is USC football is a lost cause, & fans need to start living in reality in regards to annual expectations. After 100+ years of mostly awful/mediocre football, with zero championships of any kind, I’d think us as a fanbase would understand this by now. I say give Beamer a lifetime contract & let’s just be happy with reaching an occasional bowl game. There’s certainly not ever gonna be a Spurrier walking through those doors again. And, hell, even the Ol’ Ball Coach couldn’t ever get over the hump here. This university celebrates 11 win seasons like it’s a national championship. Embarrassing.
Yep, embarrassing to the Taters that he whipped then five years running (and throwing).
Hey “Colonel”, ancient history. Clemson fans no longer worry about the quitter Spurrier. We are much happier with our recent success, a/k/a 2016 AND 2018 National Championships!! Meanwhile, your clown show is left to embrace what you are – and will always be . . . a women’s basketball school. Congratulations!
An AD is now required to be a hard charging businessman, able to make tough decisions and correct decisions also. Tanner has done neither. A former very successful baseball coach in and of itself does not qualify for this job. His lousy decisions have cost us multiple millions It’s also sad to see how he grovels to the Womans basketful coach also.
The only way you’re fixing this fiasco is to pull the program and try again in 10 years.