THE DAILY FEED 3.22.11 // Ramon Galloway and Stephen Spinella No Longer with South Carolina
by Gamecock Man on Mar 22, 2011 9:56 PM EDT
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Galloway And Spinella Will Not Return To Men's Basketball Team - SOUTH CAROLINA GAMECOCKS
I was expecting to the news about Stephen Spinella, as it's pretty clear that Darrin Horn doesn't see a future for him at Carolina. The news about Ramon Galloway, though, is a little surprising. Galloway got plenty of minutes last season and was our third-leading scorer with 10+ ppg. He drew a lot of criticism for inconsistent, inefficient offensive play and generally failed to live up to his sophomore-season expectations, but he also had some very positive moments, too, and it's hard to imagine that he wasn't going to be given a shot to continue to play a major role in the offense if he worked on eliminating the weak points in his game. One has to wonder if there was some tension between he and Horn, as Horn had some negative things to say about him in late-season interviews. At any rate, Garnet and Black Attack wishes both players the best as they continue their promising basketball careers elsewhere.
The departure of these two players gives Horn a couple of scholarships to play with. What would you like to see him use them on? I'd say a situational big man with a little more girth to him would have to be high on many Gamecock fans' wish list. The departure of Galloway also means that we're almost certainly going to be relying on Damien Leonard to be ready to step in and play a major role next year, that is unless Brian Richardson all of the sudden shows that there's a lot more to him than we saw last year.
And now for the rest of the news:
Football
BLOG: Will 'What If' Question Dog Garcia? - College Football - Rivals.com
Rejuvenated Spurrier: Just getting started - SEC Blog - ESPN
Interesting quote from the Dr. Saturday piece on the Vols:
If the prospect of total collapse has faded, though, it's only yielding a new, equally precarious phase of rebuilding: Fully half the Vols' likely starting lineup going into the spring is composed of sophomores, eight of them offense, including the quarterback (Tyler Bray), his top two receivers (Justin Hunter and Da'Rick Rogers) and four-fifths of the offensive line; with six early enrollees in for spring practice, it may add a freshman or two to that number. Dooley estimated Monday that 70 percent of the 2011 roster will be freshmen and sophomores, and if it's not "the youngest team probably in America," it's close enough that "Year One" still figures to look like, well, your standard year one. After the non-stop turmoil of the last two-and-a-half years, I suspect Tennessee will take it. For now.
Maybe predictions of UT success on the gridiron in 2011 were a little premature.
Meet The SEC Coaches’ Wives: SEC East Edition | Saturday Down South
Um, does anyone else find this creepy?
Baseball
Big week ahead for baseball team | Spur of the Moment
Haney predicts a Koumas start on Sunday against the Gators.
On bookstands now: Gamecock Glory | The Post and Courier
Travis Haney's book chronicling the Gamecocks' run the collegiate baseball championship is now on sale.
Ray Tanner Show Debuts This Thursday - Gamecocks Online
It's about time Ray Tanner got his own show. Let's hope it's more entertaining than the Head Ball Coaches' show.
Other Sports
Rumor: Dawn Staley to Replace Debbie Ryan as Virginia Head Coach - Streaking The Lawn
Carolina's season ends with Staley's future up in the air - The Daily Gamecock
Gamecocks and Tigers Men's Tennis Square Off Wednesday - SOUTH CAROLINA GAMECOCKS
Jeannelle Scheper Named SEC Field Athlete of the Week - SOUTH CAROLINA GAMECOCKS
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I'm torn.
I don’t think Galloway did anything to improve over his freshman year, but he did have a few great games. I would’ve liked to have seen him as an upperclassman, but I wouldn’t want him to continue getting the ball so much if he didn’t improve.
Spinella’s situation was a total mystery to me. He improved by leaps and bounds over his freshman season, was tearing it up in the fist half of the year, and got benched out of no where as soon as conference play started. Then, he was tossed back in during the Auburn game, and never was to be seen again just ‘cause of one bad performance. Dude must’ve leaked on the wrong person’s Corn Flakes, or had some bad practices, ‘cause I can’t explain it otherwise. I thought Spinella was on track to become the next great Carolina three point shooter.
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Yeah, I was always a little confused about Spinella.
Other than that Auburn game, he generally made the most of the minutes he got. He never really emerged as the dangerous marksman we expected him to be, but he scored some points sometimes and played good defense. My only guess is that he struggled in practice. If it was just the Auburn game, that doesn’t make any sense, because Ellington and Galloway had moments like that all the time and still got to take about half of the team’s total shots.
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by Gamecock Man on Mar 23, 2011 10:27 AM EDT up reply actions
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I hope and pray that Stephen and Ramon go on to better situations and have good lives. God bless them.
As for what to do with the open scholarships, for 2012 we are recruiting Joell James, a center out of Florida, Marcus Hunt, a small forward from Georgia, and two more wing players, one from Georgia and one from Florida. We may also be interested in Brice Johnson and Jordan Roper from SC. Our main competition for James is UNC, and for Hunt, Alabama. If UNC offers James, i would expect we’ll have a hard time getting him.
I want the best players we can get, which are probably James and Hunt. Don’t know who would be third out of those we are currently interested in.
Is it possible to use those scholarships now on JUCO players who we can use next year? I'm not really clear on how that works in basketball.
At any rate, you’re probably right that what we should do is save them for next year and go for some of these higher-profile recruits.
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by Gamecock Man on Mar 23, 2011 10:24 AM EDT up reply actions
If we use them for jucos
then we don’t have them for the 2012 class. It is more important for the program to get high school players for the 2012 class, in my opinion.
So we can use them now, but probably shouldn't?
That’s what I thought.
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by Gamecock Man on Mar 23, 2011 1:21 PM EDT up reply actions
I wish there was an Emmett Hall type JUCO out there
a PF who can im with a mature body and give us some immediate post play/presence.
I agree with you that a JUCO is not a bad idea. Let’s face it, Spinella and Galloway would have been upperclassmen (Juniors). We now lose the benefit of both being upperclassmen – not only in terms of physical development but maturity. If we get two new freshmen, that would mean we’d still be primarily freshmen and sophomores.
They wore garnet helmets.
Yeah, I'm on the fence about it. If there is a talented JUCO PF out there who would come to Carolina...
then maybe we should take a chance on him. I get that looking at high school prospects is better long term, but Horn really needs to produce some results right now, or his boat is going to sail.
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by Gamecock Man on Mar 23, 2011 7:07 PM EDT up reply actions
I heard Cory Boyd got a sizable pay raise in the CFL after his good season.
I think he’s making around what is the minimum NFL salary now. I didn’t know Boyd was considered a good Canadian back. As many good backs as there are who get cut from the NFL, I thought there would be no room for a guy like Boyd in the CFL. Maybe he’s better than I recall.
stuff 'bout stuff.
Yeah, I've heard he had a great season last year. Several 100+ yard games.
I thought Boyd was a great running back. He never had a good line to run behind here at Carolina, but he had some great games in 2006 and 2007.
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by Gamecock Man on Mar 23, 2011 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Not everyday...
that you hear announcers talking about how someone just made Eric Berry look like a chump.
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by Gamecock Man on Mar 23, 2011 1:38 PM EDT up reply actions
Boyd was really the guy
that got our run game re-ignited. He wasnt no Lattimore, but I feel pretty confident in saying he is the 2nd best back we have had in the last decade.
by Gamecockrock on Mar 23, 2011 3:03 PM EDT up reply actions
We really missed him the year after he left. He made our line look better than it was in 2007.
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by Gamecock Man on Mar 23, 2011 3:39 PM EDT up reply actions
Agreed that he is probably the second-best we've had in the last ten years.
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by Gamecock Man on Mar 23, 2011 3:39 PM EDT up reply actions
My favorite was Ko Simpson.
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by silver82blade on Mar 23, 2011 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Better than Kenny Irons, had we actually played him?
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by silver82blade on Mar 23, 2011 3:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Kenny Irons doesn't count, dude.
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by Gamecock Man on Mar 23, 2011 4:32 PM EDT up reply actions
I remember Kenny when he was mediocre
no one knew he would develop into the next stud Auburn back. It’s a shame he felt he needed to transfer. It’s sort of like Knile Davis at Arkansas – one year he is just one of the pack and the next year he’s all SEC – except Davis stayed put in Fayetteville.
They wore garnet helmets.
Yeah, and Irons left because Demetris Summers came to Carolina.
At the time, no one in their right mind thought Irons was on a par with Summers. People talk about Irons like we missed the boat on him, but there was no way to predict at the time that Summers would wash out and Irons would be a Heisman contender.
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by Gamecock Man on Mar 23, 2011 7:09 PM EDT up reply actions
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