THE DAILY FEED 7.4.11 // Happy Fourth of July
by Gamecock Man on Jul 4, 2011 1:07 PM EDT
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PrintHappy Fourth, everyone. I hope everyone has a nice day planned that will include fun with family and friends, grilled meats, and appreciating whatever blessings your country may have brought you. Here's a bit of news if you're taking a break from the grilling:
Scout.com: 2011 South Carolina Preview
CFN's Pete Fiutak provides a pretty solid preview of USC. The gist of his argument? South Carolina is more talented than it has ever been, and it's a legitimate national title contender. However, QB issues could hold it back. I'd say that's about right.
Incoming Gamecocks Basketball Recruitng Class Ranked Tenth | LOHD
Flounder takes a look at South Carolina's incoming class of young hoopsters. Needless to say, even with Anthony Gill and Damien Leonard on their way, Carolina is not keeping up with the Joneses.
USC Gamecocks Championship Parade (Video)
The 2011 College World Series Champion Gamecocks took a welcoming stroll down Main St., Columbia to the Capitol steps to celebrate with the thousands of fans in attendance. The Garnet and Black faithful were in full force by noon as the parade showed off local youth all-stars, Miss SC Teen candidates, youth center/camp associations, and of course the back-to-back College World Series Champions!
Just like in Omaha, Gamecocks stay loose - Baseball - GoGamecocks.com
USC players say they were loose — and confident — the past two seasons in Omaha because coach Ray Tanner balances his drive to win with an ‘it’s-still-a-game’ attitude. As the coaches taught the team to play small ball to get wins, players held handstand and dancing contests and wrestling matches in the locker room.
Annans of SC: Back-to-back for the Garnet and Black!
A short 365 days ago, we were celebrating the Gamecocks' first national title in baseball. The last at bat at Rosenblatt Stadium was a walk off hit by Whit Merrifield to score Scott Wingo and clinch the 2010 CWS. All that was finally starting to set in. But that was last year's amazing story.
Shatel: Gamecocks link CWS past, present - Omaha.com
Baseball news.
The New Normal « The Rubber Chickens
More baseball news.
'Michael's got the biggest heart I've ever seen on a field,' said USC first baseman Christian Walker, who had two more hits Tuesday despite playing with a broken left hand. 'He put us on his back today.'
Ryan McGee: South Carolina is now Omaha's team - ESPN
"It felt like a home game. Sure, we had a lot of fans make the drive up, but not 25,000 of them. This city has really gotten behind these Gamecocks."
The 2011 All-Fitt Team | Baseball America College Blog
Four Gamecocks make the cut.
2010 Pythagorean Wins Analysis - Roll 'Bama Roll
RBR's outsidethesidelines provides a Pythagorean Wins Analysis of the 2010 SEC football season. For those of you who aren't familiar with the concept, Pythag Wins is a statistical formula used to measure expected wins based on point differential against actual wins; it's thus a useful way to evaluate whether or not a team over or underachieved. Some interesting tidbits from the findings:
-Auburn hugely overachieved. This was to be expected, as Pythag Wins typically views teams that win lots of close games as overachievers.
-USC's expected and actual wins lined up perfectly--i.e., USC didn't under or overachieve. It finished just like one would expect it to based on its statistical output.
-Georgia hugely underachieved. This is to be expected from a team that lost lots of close games and typically won the games it won in impressive fashion.
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my mometary elation ...
at seeing the words “Tenth” and “Incoming Gamecocks Basketball Recruiting Class” combined the same sentence was crushed at the realization it meant 10th in the SEC.
I think Gill and Leonard will be very good players, and Williams is a sleeper but might be the Carolina PG of the future. I also know recruiting is an inexact science. All that being said, It is disheartening to see us in 6th place in SEC East recruiting when that has been our finishing spot for the past two years.
It’s even more disheartening to see some of Eastern rivals – who we thought we could make up some ground against in 2011-2012 – out-do us in the spring signing period. Florida got two spring 2011 signees; UGA took two and Tennessee – (headed for NCAA sanctions with brand new Coach Counzo Martin) took five. And it’s not our SEC East cohorts they took chumps either – all were three stars or better. So GM is right – this is another indicator to show we’re not gaining ground.
Our biggest needs this spring were (1) a PG to replace Bruce Ellington (who we may or may not see again on the hardwood); and (2) a mature post player to replace Holloway. We got a sleeper PG. But as far as I can tell from reading recruiting services, we never managed to get a big man to take a visit – nor did we extend an offer. With Muldrow’s graduation, we’re going to be awfully thin in the paint. I hear a common refrain that Coach Horn got the “players he wanted” and I can respect that – to a degree; but we needed a bigger recruiting splash this year. We didn’t get it. And that lies at Coach Horn’s feet. More to the point, Galloway and Spinella were formerly “players he wanted” too – and now they’re gone. Ditton Holloway. And the best case scenario with Ellington is that he is lost for non-conference play.
Unless we plan to give out grant-in-aids to our walk-ons, we’re going to be sitting on three unused scholarships for 2011-2012. Three unused schollies would horrify me in football out of a possible 85. On a basketball team it is the equivalent of an entire lost recruiting class.
PS – I remember we had a discussion about SEC Coaches on the hot seat. If Rick Stansbury of Mississippi State was in trouble for missing the post-season last year (which I argued that he wouldn’t be), I think a national 12th signing class will be just what the doctor ordered in Starkville. From my viewpoint, its Trent Johnson at LSU and Darrin Horn who have the most to prove in the West and East, respectively.
They wore garnet helmets.
Basketball is really weighing down the department as a whole now
they just dont seem to care. If they would put in the effort to improve and actually be decent, we would improve in the overall department.
The good news...
Is that we’re going after this guy.
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I had the same exact reaction.
Dum spiro spero - "While I breathe, I hope"
State motto of South Carolina
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