Inside skinny on upset gamecocks
So I have an in-law that is a huge SEC and overall college football fan. In fact, he won the scout.com pick-em polls a few years back. This prompted scout to give him a shot at his own SEC blog on their college football news website. He has started up the preseason processions with the declared love of the SEC and blah blah blah they are the national powerhouse (He is an Auburn grad after all), and actually gave some love to USC and their 2001 entrance being the official opening of the SEC season (to which I promptly rebuked him for even recognizing a piped in theme song as anything but retarded and lazy).
His most recent article is looking at the predictions of how the teams of the SEC stack up this year. He surprised me by not jumping the Noshawn Moreno bandwagon and giving it all to Georgia, but in fact has a pretty balanced argument for the top tier teams. The best part of the entire entry, though, is the point where he calls South Carolina and Darth Visor Pushovers in the conference.
“South Carolina : The Steve Spurrier experience has been a complete and utter disaster, he was not brought to Columbia for Liberty Bowls and 6-6 seasons. They have no quarterback to lead the team and Stephen Garcia is begging for a one way ticket back to the state of Florida . While the defense may be good next year the offense will put them in such poor field position with turnovers and a total lack of consistency the defense will be wasted. Steve Spurrier is an elite SEC coach, but his time spent at South Carolina will be finished with the sentence “I guess Lee Corso was right.”
I continued banter with him on email as I berated him on his prediction of Bama over Clemson in the opener. He sent an email back that said that the South Carolina prediction had ignited so much Gamecock fan email that he couldn’t keep up in the first day of posting. I told him that retaliatory gamecock email is always fun….once you comb over it with spell check. i am trying to get some responses from him so that I can post it here so we will see.
In the mean time, the CFN has a preview and predictions for most of the ACC up. So it’s not like you are doing anything at work so go read up on the hype that is ACC football.
The sad thing about predicitions like this is no matter what the Tigers do short of winning it all is not going to be good enough. If it was so easy I guess they wouldn’t need to play the games.
I agree, if the Tigers do not win the ACC championship this year, with all the hype around the team this year, Tommy is going to be in serious trouble. Sadly, even winning the Division won’t satisfy most of the fans in my mind.
I guess this is why Head Coaches get the big bucks … I’m glad my job doesn’t depend on everything going 110% right for 6 months with 50-80 people of various skill levels having to do everything just like I ask.
Dear Bloggers,
My name is Seth and I write an Ole Miss Blog (The Hotty Toddy Blog, http://hottytoddyblog.blogspot.com). I’ve written several blogs on how other universities and fans perceive Ole Miss and the SEC. In many cases stereotypes and ill will prevailed. Most people do not have a good impression of the SEC as many people in the SEC do not have a high impression of other conferences.
Ok, so why am I bothering you? I would like to start a blog organization that promotes education and good will between the conferences. How, you ask? Our blog organization, to be named something like “Good Sportsman College Sports Bloggers”, would have blog swaps, polls, did you know articles and other activities that would help educate and foster good.
I have tagged your blogs as bloggers who might be interested in joining this organization. If you are interested, please respond to this email and let me know. Once everyone who is interested has replied a new note with more information will be sent.
Thanks for your time.
Seth
The Hotty Toddy Blog
PS. I added your blog to my hotty toddy blog links, feel free to add the Hotty Toddy Blog to your links as well.
I am cool with his Blog just out of principle. And I do have a Hotty Toddy sticker from an Ole Miss tail-gate courtesy of a friend of the Gnomes in Memphis. My only concern, we aren’t always the nicest crowd to the opponents though I don’t know that we particularly bash any particular conference as a group, though we all have our opinions on each.
Hey, I think Clemson is a pretty hospitable place if you come in and don’t show your ass. Just ask Texas A&M or any other school who has visited Death Valley and been appreciative of our environment and history. It is when the drunk idiots come in and raise hell that Clemson gets aggressive.
I have already expanded the Schedule Calendars to include the SEC so I don’t see a problem of linking up with some SEC brethren. We might need a new page!
When I say “we” I am more talking about our comments (The Gnomes) than our fan base as a whole.