If you're South Carolina
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Surely they struck out on several others and got a bit desperate. Everyone was filling their vacancies and they got left behind pretty badly.
Not sure how they didn't land Herman. I guess he got his feelings hurt when it looked like they were going to land Kirby.
That's what I don't get. WTF. Did they not offer Fuente? I'd think SC is s better job than VT. You're at SEC program with the easier path to Atlanta. Fuente, Mendenhall, Richt, all are infinitely better coaches than Boomer and went to what I'd consider lesser programs.
Ok I will say it. Mississippi State is just a better job than South Carolina and it is not really close. I had a chance to go to the last sec campus I had never visited this summer so I went to Columbia. And I was not impressed at all. Their nicest facility was their baseball stadium which was hidden behind some automotive yards. Their basketball arena is in downtown and a pretty good few miles from the campus. And their football stadium was on the other side and a few miles from campus too. None of the big 3 sports were on campus. And the facilities from the outside looked worse than Mississippi State. I know the media has been high on South Carolina with Spurrier being there but how is this close to being a good job? The best coach in Florida history could only win a division once in the worst the East has ever been. And now they are stuck with hiring one of the worst FLorida coaches who could not take that talented team to Atlanta. But back to the SOuth Carolina job, not only are the facilities not impressive but you are in the same division with Georgia Florida and Tennessee so getting to the East looks improbable. You have to play your instate rival Clemson who is leapyears ahead of SOuth Carolina now. And Spurrier complained about having Arkansas as their permaent opponent so now they get Texas A&M who will eventually be a power but maybe not with this coach. So honestly I do not see what is so great about South Carolina. I am not even being a homer here because I believe that the other 7 West Schools are better jobs than this one. Does anyone else see what I am getting at here or am I crazy?
Spurrier knew this back in 2004 also. Unfortunately, LT was pressured to hire Croom and the rest is history.
Eh. I think most people would disagree with you, but I like you're attitude.
The palmetto state produce a pretty solid run of NFL caliber athletes (Alshon Jeffery, Clowney), and they're pretty far ahead of us in revenue.
The palmetto state produce a pretty solid run of NFL caliber athletes (Alshon Jeffery, Clowney), and they're pretty far ahead of us in revenue.
The baseball stadium is kinda cool. To me it reminded me of a spring training Grapefruit League park, & not because of the plametto trees. Lots of open area, concourse, etc. That said it's no DNF or Alex Box (caveat, never been). AND they don't sell seeds @ a gotdamn ball park, so cool or not, 17 that place!
So you think our facilities are worse than the bears? I've been to several facilities and I will say our campus is far nicer than a lot of others here in the west. The buildings are nice, the campus is beautiful, and our athletic facilities our top notch. I think everything about of great school is far superior to the bears.
No I actually think highly of our facilities. I think Davis Wade looks really nice. And I think when we finish the Softball and Baseball Stadium renovations it will be some of the nicest in the SEC. Mississippi State is doing a lot of the things we need to do to be a proactive college athletic program and I am proud of it. Personally I think it would be useful to add Mens Soccer, Womens Gymnastics, Equestrian and possibly swimming and diving but I do not make those decesions. But I think it would be fun for gymnastics at the hump but I digress. The bears are about to open a new basketball arena that will be nicer than ours so nothing we can really do about that. They are about to expand their football stadium but it does not look any nicer to me so quality>quantity is at MSU. And when we redo the baseball stadium we will be light years ahead of the bears in that regard. So yeah I am impressed with the facilites at MSU I just wish that we could add more sports teams to use them. As a fan I would go to Gymnastics and Mens Soccer games.
Columbia SC is not a great town. It's not even a good city in South Carolina. I can easily think of 10 other cities in SC where I'd rather live. It ranks just ahead of Spartanburg.
Saw that....fooballscoop was mentioning that since USC hadn't announced Muschamp yet, it must be because RR was flying back to Arizona to tell the team he was leaving
Nice campus. It was designed using our campus as a model. Some very striking similarities.
^^This^^. Clemson is a great college town. Anderson is bigger, & Greenville bigger yet, with neither being too far away. The University (Clemson) indeed took a cue from State. It's high time Starkville took a cue from Clemson, the town.
Fuente said that he had multiple programs reach out, and didn't listen to a lot of them. I don't think Fuente would've taken the job.
Clemson is now rated as one of the best small towns in the country in which to live. Also a top retirement destination.
Dabo sitting on a monster over there.
Dabo sitting on a monster over there.
Unfortunately, most of those additional programs are a negative return on investment for a university. And unless your big three sports are making up the difference and then some, adding new sports just isn't a good move... Especially in a state with limited financial resources to begin with.
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