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Recruiting takes another brutal hit

18IsTheMan

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Skuddy said:
It's time to sound the alarm now for the state of SC. According to this site, we lead for one guy at this point. Most seem to be going out of state.
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The only top player from the state we seem to be in the mix for is WR Amare Patterson, the #5 player in the state. The top 4 have already committed elsewhere. We don't have any in-state commits for 2027 yet. Maybe we're good enough that we're just recruiting nationally.
 
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DannyTree1

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Lurker123 said:
Agree that the title is not worth it.

Haven't stopped watching yet though. Watched less, maybe. But haven't stopped.
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I went from having season tickets for about 10 years to giving those up.

Then I went from arranging my Saturday schedule to make sure I was watching us play- or if I was driving, to make sure I could tune in the game on the radio.

Now, I rarely will watch a Carolina game- I didn't even watch the Clemson game last year. Oddly enough, my wife did watch some of it while I was running errands. I wasn't even listening on the radio. I didn't see even one second of it. Did catch some highlights on the local news that day.

I now will even forget what time our games are at least 3-4 times a season until the day of the game. It use to bug me when I was not watching or listening to the game. Sometimes I forget the game is even on.

I will never forget last year - one of my coworkers (he's not South Carolina fan) was texting me during the Texas A & M game when we went up on them in the first half - and I had forgot the game was even being played. Totally slipped my mind- and no- I didn't turn it on or listen to it on the radio. I also was not surprised we blew a lead or lost. That told me (and my wife) that college football simply wasn't a thing for me anymore.

That took me a number of years to get to that point though, but I am actually proud of it because I don't like being tied to the tv or radio - or have anything in my life that dominates it like that.
 
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DannyTree1 said:
I went from having season tickets for about 10 years to giving those up.

Then I went from arranging my Saturday schedule to make sure I was watching us play- or if I was driving, to make sure I could tune in the game on the radio.

Now, I rarely will watch a Carolina game- I didn't even watch the Clemson game last year. Oddly enough, my wife did watch some of it while I was running errands. I wasn't even listening on the radio. I didn't see even one second of it. Did catch some highlights on the local news that day.

I now will even forget what time our games are at least 3-4 times a season until the day of the game. It use to bug me when I was not watching or listening to the game. Sometimes I forget the game is even on.

I will never forget last year - one of my coworkers (he's not South Carolina fan) was texting me during the Texas A & M game when we went up on them in the first half - and I had forgot the game was even being played. Totally slipped my mind- and no- I didn't turn it on or listen to it on the radio. I also was not surprised we blew a lead or lost. That told me (and my wife) that college football simply wasn't a thing for me anymore.

That took me a number of years to get to that point though, but I am actually proud of it because I don't like being tied to the tv or radio - or have anything in my life that dominates it like that.
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I am just not as far along as you, but im on the same path. Season tickets, then once a year, then I would just watch on TV.

The TV games used to be an event with friends over, or me going to a friend's. I'm losing even that now. But still watching at least for now.
 
18IsTheMan

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Lurker123 said:
I am just not as far along as you, but im on the same path. Season tickets, then once a year, then I would just watch on TV.

The TV games used to be an event with friends over, or me going to a friend's. I'm losing even that now. But still watching at least for now.
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I will watch if we're good. Outside of the VA Tech game, I'm not sure I watched a whole game last year. Maybe UK. I made it all the way to the SC State game before I turned a game off in disgust.
 
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I'm beginning to learn on the theory that the apathy being expressed for CFB, is much more symptomatic of our own failings(not only on the gridiron, but the hardcourt, and diamond as well) then the CFB game in general.
If a turnaround could occur within the next 1-3 years then perhaps a more energized fan base would prevail.
Or would that be too late ?
 
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Harvard Gamecock said:
I'm beginning to learn on the theory that the apathy being expressed for CFB, is much more symptomatic of our own failings(not only on the gridiron, but the hardcourt, and diamond as well) then the CFB game in general.
If a turnaround could occur within the next 1-3 years then perhaps a more energized fan base would prevail.
Or would that be too late ?
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For me, it's multifactorial but the massive changes to the game are a huge factor. I'd get my passion back up if we built a strong team from HS recruiting and developed those players over time. If we end up with a strong team built mostly with pieces from the portal, it's just much less interesting to me.
 
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I find myself watching less and less sports on TV.Just don’t have the interest in any sport that I used to.
I tell my kids that when I was young we had 1 college football game and 1 Major League Baseball game and I would never miss.Now with wall to wall games I don’t watch hardly any.I haven’t watched a complete MLB game in probably 20 years and other than a select few CFB games I usually end up flipping around between football and YouTube videos.
 
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College Football is DEAD! Whatever we have now, it ain’t student athletes playing for their school. It’s greed, greed, greed - gone amuck! I might be about done. Thinking about turning my attention to fishing. Or gardening. When the kneeling started I stopped watching the NFL. Haven’t watched a game since. Don’t miss it a bit.
 
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18IsTheMan said:
#2 player in the state, RB Tre Segarra has committed to none other than LSU and Lane Kiffin. The latter is merely insult to injury. Segarra is someone Beamer wanted, and needed, badly. This was a big miss. We offered him 18 months ago. LSU offered him this month.

When do we start sounding alarms about the incoming class?
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I believe 3 of the top 10 are committed to SC. Only one to the “other team” with which we share this state.

A significant portion of today’s recruiting is management of a budget to buy players. Our budget is sirloin not filet mignon.

Our record last year, not so good.

Some recruits do switch back home. See WR from portal from UCF.

We don’t get great recruits from the portal? Left Tackle from NC State. Rocket RB. CB from NC State. Tomiwa DL great potential

Kiffin is a liar, everyone knows it eventually.

y’ all stay away from sharp objects
 
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DannyTree1

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Lurker123 said:
I am just not as far along as you, but im on the same path. Season tickets, then once a year, then I would just watch on TV.

The TV games used to be an event with friends over, or me going to a friend's. I'm losing even that now. But still watching at least for now.
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As recent as Muschamp, I had two good (Good at the time) long-time friends and we would text each other during games 15-20 times a game- but even then, I wasn't watching every game. So that didn't last that long (neither did the friendships)

Then, those texts stopped.

I think the only person that texted me about a game last year was my coworker regarding the A & M game- and wasn't even watching or listening to it when he texted me.
 
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Lurker123 said:
I am just not as far along as you, but im on the same path.
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The easiest way is to refuse to turn on the tv- and listen to it on the radio- then slowly stop listening to every game on the radio- or listening to the first half or whatever. You will find your interest starts to decline.

oh- and never pause doing something else because of our football game (or any game).

When I got to the point of not watching the games on tv, my wife would walk outside and catch me working or fooling around and she'd remind me the game was on- and I'd tell her "ok" but I wouldn't come in to watch. Eventually, I would hear my wife telling friends and other family members that I didn't care about watching the games anymore. That's when it sort of hit me that I really didn't care either way about watching or listening to them.

Put it like this, in 1990, in 2000, in 2010 - I could name every starter on offense and defense every single year.

If you gave me a million dollars tonight, I couldn't name more than 3 players on defense on the entire team, and I think I could name maybe 3-4 on the offense. I couldn't name you one offensive lineman outside of that NC state transfer if my lfe depended on it. People that know me personally know this and people that use to talk football with me every single time they saw me never even bring it up anymore.
 
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usc_nc said:
We don’t get great recruits from the portal? Left Tackle from NC State. Rocket RB. CB from NC State. Tomiwa DL great potential

Kiffin is a liar, everyone knows it eventually.
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1) average at best, as a recruit- and one of those is hurt with no guarantee he'll be 100%. We've had a long, long line of players over the years that were good on paper but not 100% during the season which means they didn't make a difference.

2) No one cares if he's a known liar. In some ways, it's an asset. Players are told "kiffin will lie like a bastard. That shows you how much he wants to win" and turn the lies into a positive. Character and such don't matter a hill of beans in anything anymore. This is 2026.
 
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1. Kids don't care if Kiffen is a liar. Hell, they don't care if he's a child molester. All they look at is the dollar amount on the NIL contract.

2. Outside of the game day experience and seeing friends from my college days and friends from tailgating. going to the game is secondary. If the team loses, so what? Our mercenaries didn't beat the mercenaries from the opposing team.
 
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Just need to pass new tax law that College athlete getting out of state funds will fall into the 50% x state tax, If their legal guardians are state residents. That will level things out from the big pocket schools.
 
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Kiffin is the King Snake and he's welcoming the other snakes into the den.
Empty stadiums and TV's off is the only way to change things which is not likely to happen. This is a tough habit to give up.
 
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