Garnet And Black Attack: FanShots

SEC baseball coaches like Florida again to win the championship

2012-02-13T20:34:04Z

SEC baseball coaches like Florida again to win the championship

The 21st annual SEC coaches' pre-season poll has UF on top. Should SEC baseball abandon the divisional format?

South Carolina 62 Florida 58

2012-02-13T04:06:20Z

South Carolina 62 Florida 58

The Lady Gamecocks (19-6, 8-4) rebounded from their humbling loss at Arkansas by besting Florida (16-9, 6-6) this evening at the Colonial Life Arena. Dawn Staley's squad came out angry from the opening tap and held a commanding ten point lead (43-33) at the end of the first frame. The Lady Gators stormed back in the second half, however, and knotted it up 54-54 at 6:32 before Gamecock senior G Markeshia Grant hit a big time three to take back the lead for good. It was dicey down to the last minute until USC senior G La'keisha Sutton hit a shot at :32 to extend the Garnet and Black's lead to 61-58; the Lady Gators missed two shots at the end and Sutton made a final free throw at :01 to seal a 62-58 win. Grant paced all scorers with 20 points (7-13 from the floor, 5-6 from the arc), along with 3 rebounds and 1 block.

Clemson to the Big XII?

2012-02-11T18:16:17Z

Clemson to the Big XII?

Over at MrSEC.com, John Pennington has an interesting post entitled Clemson AD Shoots Down Big 12 rumors occasioned by the fact Clemson uber-homer David Hood asked Terry Don Phillips if there was any validity to rumors "swirling" that the Big XII might be targeting Clemson and FSU . Now just because TDP says it ain't so doesn't necessarily mean it ain't so. Could we get so lucky to have the Tigers play in a league dominated by schools across the Mississippi? I doubt it. It would likely take a pack of dogs and a crow-bar to pry Clemmy away from the easy-pickings of the ACC to the more competitive Big XII. And even though CU has a nation-wide recruiting dragnet, they couldn't expect to do that much better in overall recruiting with a conference switch. It would be a heroically dumb move on the part of Clemson to leave the ACC. So, alas, we can't find much reason to suspect the rumors are nothing more than pie-in-the-sky from Big XII country.

John Calipari - Horn deserves 'seven, eight years' to build South Carolina.

2012-02-04T13:43:30Z

John Calipari - Horn deserves 'seven, eight years' to build South Carolina.

Mind your own beeswax, Coach. [NB - It never took Calipari seven or eight years to build a program. In his twenty years as a head coach, Little Ricky has missed post-season play once - his first season at UMass ('88-'89)].

Aaron Fitt - Roth Star: A Day In The Life Of South Carolina's Improbable Ace

2012-02-04T12:36:53Z

Aaron Fitt - Roth Star: A Day In The Life Of South Carolina's Improbable Ace

Awesomely awesome profile of Michael Roth by one of college baseball's premiere writers.

ACC to adopt a nine game schedule in 2014

2012-02-03T21:25:22Z

ACC to adopt a nine game schedule in 2014

So far, the SEC is resisting; will it be able to after next season? UPDATE: See what Mr. SEC (John Pennington) thinks about the subject here ACC Adopts The Scheduling Format The SEC Is Scared Of .

USC hires Grady Brown as Secondary Coach

2012-02-03T21:17:13Z

USC hires Grady Brown as Secondary Coach

The staff is now complete (again). More on Brown to come later.

I wanted to be a Gamecock and never looked back

2012-02-02T01:29:06Z

I wanted to be a Gamecock and never looked back

The success in the past couple of years lead to his decision. Roland will make the loss of AJ easier to handle. I want the shirt.

HBC says class is high in athletic ability and low in maintenance. Never thought I would see the day, all hail HBC!