The Daily Feed: January 22, 2012

by tryptic67 on Jan 22, 2012 8:09 AM EST

Who had a worse day, yesterday? Mitt or Darrin? That's a head-scratcher.

Football

Post & Courier: True freshman safety Brison Williams has been indefinitely suspended from South Carolina's football team for "conduct detrimental to the team." Uh oh.

Kornblut: Hanahan WR Chris Brown not swaying from Notre Dame. I don't know why we're bothering to call Chris, except it makes me worry that the staff feels they've lost traction with Quinshard Davis. Brown always struck me as a huge prima donna, who's erratic recruiting has been directed by his stage-dad. We don't need him.

LOHD: Flounder weighs in on Craig Fitzgerald's resignation and describes it as a huge loss.

ABC Columbia: Garcia Throws 2 TD's in All-Star Game. Video highlights after a 15 second commercial. Bobby Bowden was SG's coach.

YouTube: Sideline interview with Stephen Garcia from the Battle of Florida.

Basketball

Al.com: Auburn beats South Carolina with ease, exceeds 2011 win total (with video).

Habotin Blog: Montgomery Advertiser writer Jay G. Tate blogs through the game. He obviously writes from an Auburn-oriented perspective, but it's pretty informative about the Gamecocks' play. Read it from the bottom up.

Advertiser: Jay Tate's post-game write-up - Auburn basketball: Tigers turn it up, race past Gamecocks.

Gamecocksonline: Gamecocks Fall At Auburn, 63-52. Darrin Horn post-game video.

Why no links from the usual South Carolina beat writers, you might ask? Because none of them went. If that's not an indictment on the overall health of the men's basketball program, then nothing is; all the in-state dailies ran with the generic AP piece. Turning now to the Lady Gamecocks:

Gamecock Central: David Cloninger writes about the women's hardwood woes - Third straight loss could linger.

Gamecocksonline: Hopefully, Dawn Staley won't let it - Women's Hoops Closes Road Swing at #25/22 Vandy. This would be a huge win. Tip-off at 1:30. TV ESPNU.

Olympic Sports

Gamecocksonline: Yesterday wasn't a total disaster, folks - Tennis Cocks Sweep Season Opening Doubleheader.

Loose Feed

AJC: Georgia Tech’s 1st commitment for 2012 gets his scholarship offer pulled. Oversigning! Broken system! The kid is a victim! Oh, wait? It's Johnson? Not Spurrier or Saban? Oh, then never mind. It's OK then.

NBC Sports: Domestic incident nets charges for starting UGA corner. Uh-oh. His arrest has nothing to do with bad karma; rather, as John Taylor put it, Saturday simply wasn't the best of days for SEC defensive backs.

Bleacher Report: Auburn 2012 Offensive Coodinartor: Is It Getting to Crunch Time? (No slides!) I'd be on pins and needles if I pulled for Aubie; it doesn't look like it's anywhere close to done, but then the announcement could come at any time.

Track 'Em Tigers: Updyke Declines Plea Deal. I agree with Sir Charles to a point - 13 years is crazy. But a month seems too light. If I was the prosecutor, I'd push for 2-3 years.

Al.com: How do you put a price tag on Nick Saban's value? Rich getting richer.

ESPN: Clemson introduces Brent Venables. Alternate headline - Dabo Swinney makes it through presser without (totally) be-clowning himself - did he have to name drop that coaches like Kevin Sumlin and Mike Gundy had called to give him an attaboy? Is he that needy for praise? Best line from the ESPN story: Clemson has lost three straight games to South Carolina. Oh yeah, baby! Love it when the World Wide Leader keeps twisting that knife! More please.

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Venables

Left because brother Mike was brought into the fold co-dc regardless of the spin. OU defense has been on a downward slide the past few years and that is why Mike Stoops was brought in . Venables will not be able to turn around the train wreck, dumpster fire that poses as a defense in pickens.

Williams is a concern because we do not know why it happened which means it may be serious. Jerideau will be back.

by wilmywoodcock on Jan 22, 2012 10:33 AM EST reply actions

Hopefully Brison will get a second chance

from whatever it is (assuming it’s not illegal or super-immoral). Vic Hampton worked his way back on the team last season, so the door should be open to Williams assuming he didn’t commit an unforgiveable offense. We’ll just have to wait-and-see I suppose.

Here's a health, Carolina, forever to thee! UNIVERSITAS CAROLIN MERID. 1801 Emollit mores nec sinit esse feros (Ovid)

by tryptic67 on Jan 22, 2012 10:41 AM EST up reply actions

Brison

Heard it was an attitude-related issue in his class, and he is being issued a wake-up call by the staff. Haven’t heard anything else though.

by CSlice on Jan 23, 2012 9:39 AM EST up reply actions

Thanks for your comment

a wake up call, as you put it, wouldn’t surprise me a bit.

Here's a health, Carolina, forever to thee! UNIVERSITAS CAROLIN MERID. 1801 Emollit mores nec sinit esse feros (Ovid)

by tryptic67 on Jan 23, 2012 6:45 PM EST up reply actions

What a trend...

A year ago, they put all the blame on their OC and replaced him after the bowl game. Now they blamed it on their DC and also replaced him after the worst bowl game in the history. The logical question will be what will happen next year? New Head Coach? Never once the last two season I heard their HC came out and said “It’s my fault. I didn’t prepare my troop good enough for the battle and it’s solely my fault.” But instead it was the OC fault, the DC fault and just replaced them. As a business person, I viewed the HC as the CEO of the football team. He is responsible to hire all the assistant coaches, the best that he could, to help win games. You must ask who hired these OC, DC guys, who kept them on the staff and made that decision??? Who is ultimately responsible for the melt down in the Orange Bowl? Cannot put it all on the DC? I hope they keep that joker and cheerleader because we would love to see them get embarrassed on National TV and see them blame it on their OLC or their S&CC next year… Now Tweet That….!!!

by seawolf114 on Jan 22, 2012 2:20 PM EST via iPhone app reply actions