Things are bad at South Carolina - and Steve Spurrier's had it with his starting quarterback, Perry Orth. He's replaced him with true freshman Lorenzo Nunez, who actually looked like South Carolina's most dangerous option - outside of Pharoh Cooper - in the Gamecocks' 52-20 shellacking at Georgia on Saturday. Nunez will start against UCF. Nunez went 4-5 for 18 yards and 76 yards rushing against Georgia, while Orth was 6-17 for 66 yards and 1 INT. “I think it’s the first true freshman quarterback as a coach I’ve ever started, but that’s just where we are right now,” head coach Steve Read more [...]

With Jadeveon Clowney moving off to the NFL, the South Carolina Gamecocks had a poor 2014, finishing 7-5 and 3-5 in the SEC, which including a blow-out losses to Texas A&M and Clemson, and getting outclassed by Kentucky. They beat Georgia in a rainstorm and squeaked by Florida, but overall, this wasn't a great year for the Gamecocks. WE NOW KNOW THE QB Connor Mitch was named the quarterback of the South Carolina Gamecocks on Tuesday, much to the relief of many fans who we guess were beginning to question whether Steve Spurrier had decided to go for golf instead of a big decision. Anyway, Read more [...]

I could sit here and give you a long news article about Steve Spurrier and what he said about South Carolina football - "We've got a good team at South Carolina ready to go this year. We had a little bit of a struggle in the middle of last season" - but that's not why we look out for what the Head Ball Coach says at SEC Media Days. It's the zingers. So here's a collection of them: INTRODUCTION SPEECH "A lot of familiar faces out there after a lot of years coming to this event. I figured a bunch of you guys would have retired by now." "We believe we have a fighting chance to do that. Read more [...]

Steve Spurrier has said that the Gamecocks will be adding a graduate transfer safety from Kansas this off-season. Speaking on the Paul Finebaum Show at the SEC Spring meetings in Destin, FL, The Head Ball coach said: "I hope that's not against the rules," he added. "We think he's got to get in grad school and do some stuff. Our conference - if they've had issues before - would frown on us taking a player like that." He added: "It's just one year. Maybe he's gone to a place where things haven't worked out or maybe he played on a team that doesn't win that much and he wants to go and play Read more [...]

South Carolina is to have two defensive co-ordinators for the team next year, reports say. John Hoke, who comes from the NFL and has most recently been with Chicago, will come on board to coach USC's passing defense, and current DC Lorenzo Ward will coach the Gamecocks rushing defense. Ward worked for Steve Spurrier at Florida between 1999-2001, the report from GoGamecocks.com says. The decision comes as a little bit of a break for Ward, who was in charge of a USC defense that gave up 30.4 points-per-game last year, "good" for 91st in the country. A lot of people felt that Ward would Read more [...]

Despite all the talk that comes out of Steve Spurrier's mouth, there one thing that's for certain about his South Carolina Gamecocks: They've never won a SEC title under him. Sure, they went there in 2010. But they lost, and despite Spurrier's annoyance at the schedule, they haven't been back since.  But this year the Gamecocks are favored for the SEC East. Can they make it? LAST YEAR Despite the excellence of QB Connor Shaw and RB Mike Davis, the whole of the 2013 season was really about one player: Jadeveon Clowney. If there was another player in the game who's name wasn't Johnny Manziel Read more [...]

It's 99 days to go until the college football season starts, and we're pretty excited. So excited, in fact, that we're ranking all of the entrances/pregame traditions in the SEC. And we're not talking about tailgating! 1. Running Through The 'T' - Tennessee Neyland Stadium. Night. The crowd has already drunken itself to a stupor. The Pride Of The Southland Band forms a T. The team runs through it. 2.  'War.....Eagle' - Auburn Not EXACTLY the entrance, but letting Spirit The Eagle out as the crowd screams "War Eagle" is one of the best traditions in sports. Spirit The Eagle then Read more [...]

With Jadeveon Clowney and three other juniors going to the pros - as well as talisman quarterback Connor Shaw- South Carolina needed to shore up their class with an excellent National Signing Day.....and did. A lot of the big signings were on the defensive side. Steve Spurrier picked up DE Dante Sawyer, LB Bryson Allen-Williams and defensive tackle Dexter Wideman - who had committed earlier to Florida State - and reports have said that they expect DE Jhaustin Thomas to make an impact, too. Four-star Defensive back Chris Lammons came aboard, and DE Blake McClain, who was meant to be going Read more [...]

This week wasn't exactly that weird in the SEC. Missouri's heart was broken by their kicker (and their defense, we'd like to add), but after that, Vandy was crushed by Texas A&M (who still gave up 24), Alabama slammered Tennessee (see what we've done there?), Auburn beat the 'over' against Florida Atlantic, and LSU was asleep in the first half against Furman (went 7-0 and 10-7 down before exploding and winning out 48-16)....but it didn't cost them. We were going to go with a funny power rankings list but it's been a long weekend, and we're trying to get our head around the SEC tiebreakers Read more [...]

South Carolina defensive end and All-American Jadeveon Clowney has a $5 million insurance policy should he get injured in the 2013 season, it has been reported. The policy - which will be paid out via the NCAA should anything go awry next season - will be paid for by family members, and protect against future . The cost is $30,000. Reply to Charleston Post-Courier writer Daryl Slater's report, Paul Myerberg of USA Today noted that the policy was the largest available to players. The insurance company offering the policy is HCC, based in Cincinnati. On South Carolina's website, they Read more [...]