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by The Feathered Warrior on Oct 20, 2025 5:00 AM EDT
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South Carolina Football: Kentucky Field Report | Leftover Hot Dog
Miss the Kentucky game? LOHD has your back. In excruciating detail.
Kentucky was 7 of 11 on third downs in the second half…They were also 2 of 2 on fourth downs…
Steve Spurrier Weekly Press Conference Quotes & Videos | Gamecocks Online
On Marcus Lattimore
I wouldn't say he's definitely out. He can walk right now. He may make a nice recovery between now and then.
If Steve Spurrier is honestly considering playing an (even slightly) injured Marcus Lattimore against Vanderbilt on Saturday, I am going to have a serious problem with him. Vanderbilt is arguably the third worst team on our entire schedule. They might even be the second worst. So are you telling me that if Marcus had gone to Auburn instead of South Carolina we would only expect to win two games this season? He can't possibly be THAT instrumental to our offense. Hopefully this is all mind games so Vandy has to prepare for Lattimore (whatever that ambiguous phrase means), because if Steve Spurrier honestly thinks we can't beat Vanderbilt without Lattimore, then I might have just jumped off the Spurrier band wagon. Do the right thing Spurrier and sit Lattimore now so there will be no question about his availability for the Tennessee game. Need I remind you of the Shaq Wilson situation?
On the team's SEC road losing streak
We're getting less points than the other team. That's exactly what's happened. Lets don't make any more about we should have beaten Kentucky. They made 21 first downs to our 17. They made nine third downs to our five. They were 3-for-3 on fourth down conversions. They played better than us. They just beat us. We don't sit around and mope about missed assignments which helped lose, but during the course of the game they outplayed us. Give those guys credit.
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On Kenny Miles playing a bigger role this week
Kenny is fired up. Coach (Jay) Graham and I talked and said lets give Kenny a chance. Brian Maddox has hustled. He's done everything. He had a diving catch last week for minus-two yards. Stephen (Garcia) threw it behind him last week ... but anyway that's how our offense went in the second half. Anyway Kenny's fired up and ready to play. He's had a wonderful attitude through these first six games. I think he had 100 yards at this game last year.
What the Kentucky loss has done to me, personally, is steel my resolve to hold Spurrier accountable this year. There is absolutely no excuse for putting up 0 points in the second half and having a net of 90 rushing yards against the worst rush defense in the SEC. My memories of the game are a little hazy, but I seem to remember some Connor Shaw in there at one point running the Wild Cock. Why didn’t we try that in the second half? Why didn’t we use the duo of Maddox and Miles to cram it down their throats? I remember when we were cramming it down Georgia’s throat and I turned to my brother and said, "This is how you win football games. When everybody in the stadium knows you’re going to run it and you still explode them off the line for positive yards." Run the ball, Spurrier, and don’t be an idiot about it.
SEC East, A Graphic Explanation, Life of Pi Edition UPDATED | The Rubber Chickens
Sigh...
USC defense: Back to drawing board? | The Post and Courier
South Carolina is currently ranked 110th in pass defense, giving up 270.8 yards a game through the air after six games. Consecutive passers, Alabama's Greg McElroy and Kentucky's Mike Hartline, have set career highs against the Gamecocks.
Would you have thought this would be the case at the beginning of the year?
Gamecock Secondary Making Adjustments | Gamecock Anthem
What took so long?
The devil went down to... Louisiana? | Gridiron & Grits
A "Broken Heart Meter?" She really is a Gamecock fan.
Blog: Bones, chanting and chicken blood | Gamecock Anthem
If you take just one thing from this article, let it be this:
Seriously, folks, the Chicken Curse is not real. You wouldn't know that, of course, by the coverage of South Carolina's latest, inexplicable loss on the football field.
Morris: USC’s time is NOW | TheState.com
He also knows that should USC capture the division title, neither the SEC nor the NCAA is going to attach an asterisk next to it signaling the division was not up to par.
This is they key - win the division. Let history take care of the stigma of a "down" division. Not a bad article, but I feel compelled to keep my promise to you, dear reader, and proved the following link. (H/T: Spurs Up)
Ron Morris Resignation Petition | Petition Spot
We're up to 633!
A Spoonful Of Blue Helps Reality Go Down | Saturday Down South
Hard to read, man. Let this be a lesson to all you kids out there.
Dashing through a stock report | ESPN - Forde Yard Dash
Pat Forde touches on the depressing state of the SEC East and the Gamecocks' home/away disparity. (H/T: tryptic67)
Eight Gamecocks Named to Steele's Midseason All-SEC Teams | Gamecocks Online
The Gamecocks were represented on the first team by a pair of sophomores, wide receiver Alshon Jeffery and cornerback Stephon Gilmore. Freshman tailback Marcus Lattimore and sophomore defensive end Devin Taylor earned spots on the second team, while junior quarterback Stephen Garcia, junior defensive tackle Travian Robertson, senior defensive end Cliff Matthews and senior punter Spencer Lanning were named to the third team squad.
Does this mean Phil Steele thinks Stephen Garcia is the third best quarterback in the SEC? More to the point, is Stephen Garcia the third best quarterback in the SEC?
Nebraska falls, Texas re-enters Power Rankings after upset win | SI.com
Life is not fair. Gamecock fans learn this fact early.
Gamecocks coach Steve Spurrier should understand that calls that work for The Hat don't necessarily work for Darth Visor. Spurrier hoped for a Les Miles moment Saturday at Kentucky when Stephen Garcia lofted the ball into the end zone -- even though the Gamecocks only needed a field goal to force overtime.
Lights-Cam-Action! SEC Report Cards, Week 7 | The Sports Jury
A "C?" How do you give USC a C after last week's loss to Kentucky when just a week prior they beat Alabama? We have better expectations than that around here. That's F material fo' sho.
William Carlos Williams Reviews Carolina/Kentucky | The Rubber Chickens
Don't understand this? This should help.
RECRUITING
Byrd to announce decision this week | The Post and Courier
That Kentucky loss hurts us, but he was here for 'Bama. Lord knows why a New Jersey kid is interested in coming all the way to South Carolina (one assumes to get out of New Jersey), but I like our chances. That could be him that we throw to on the last play of the game to beat Kentucky next year!
One of the quickest prospects in the Northeast will announce this week if he will join South Carolina's talented receiving corps next season. Wide receiver Damiere Byrd (5-9, 165) of Sicklerville, N.J., plans to have a decision Wednesday between the Gamecocks, Iowa, Ole Miss and Florida. He took official visits to USC and Iowa. His visit to Columbia was for the Alabama weekend.
BASKETBALL
Gamecocks debut new jerseys | GoGamecocks.com
I guess uniforms is one of the topics GoGamecocks considers lowly enough to offer for free. Still, the unis look better than last year's version. (H/T: Spurs Up)
SWIMMING/ DIVING
South Carolina Dominates SEC Weekly Swim/Dive Awards | Gamecocks Online
You heard it here (actually there, I guess) first, folks. DOMINATION!
EQUESTRIAN
Gamecocks Ranked Fourth in Equestrian National Coaches Poll | Gamecocks Online
Ok, cearly these equestrian people aren't familiar with how polls work. If there are fourth teams ahead of you, you are actually ranked fifth.
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What is best in life?
As if I needed to tell you guys.
Crush Vandy. Drive them before us. And hear the lamentation of the writers.
They wore garnet helmets.
by tryptic67 on Oct 20, 2025 8:42 AM EDT reply actions
I agree about sitting Lattimore.
We need to throw Kenny and Brian at them all night long. If they get tired, hand the ball to Sherman. We all want Marcus at 100% for UT, Arky, UF, and Clemson.
by Skulls and Spurs on Oct 20, 2025 9:32 AM EDT reply actions
I agree. I'm glad he's getting better quickly...
But that to me just means that he’ll be 100% for UT. We shouldn’t need him against Vandy, and if we do, Spurrier is doing something seriously wrong with this team. This isn’t 2008 Vandy. This is a terrible team with virtually no offense and not much more defense. Even on the road, we should win comfortably.
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by Gamecock Man on Oct 20, 2025 9:59 AM EDT up reply actions
Chris Low at ESPN
appears to be thinking along the same lines.
They wore garnet helmets.
by tryptic67 on Oct 20, 2025 10:55 AM EDT up reply actions
Damiere Byrd
announces today per Phil Kornblut. Looks like he is leaning our way, but who knows. Four star prospect.
Corey Boyd was a Garden State prospect. It wasn’t so long ago that NJ residents formed the largest population of out of state students. Too bad we don’t recruit more up there!
They wore garnet helmets.
by tryptic67 on Oct 20, 2025 10:38 AM EDT reply actions
"It wasn’t so long ago that NJ residents formed the largest population of out of state students."
I think that’s still the case, but I don’t know why.
Dum spiro spero - "While I breathe, I hope"
State motto of South Carolina
by The Feathered Warrior on Oct 20, 2025 10:40 AM EDT up reply actions
I sort of feel the same way
but couldn’t find a quick link … so … anyhow glad we made some inroads up there, since … Rutgers is the only big time program in the state (a bit down from two years ago) and only Syracuse, Boston College and UConn play BCSAQ conference football to the north, and we’re the closest SEC school.
A ton of NJ kids love coming south … a lot of small colleges in NC and VA (e.g., Roanoke, Belmont Abbey) are chock full of ’em.
So why not us?
They wore garnet helmets.
by tryptic67 on Oct 20, 2025 10:50 AM EDT up reply actions
I remember meeting lots of people from PA while I was at Carolina.
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by Gamecock Man on Oct 20, 2025 10:51 AM EDT up reply actions
Warmer weather, cheaper stuff, less population density. New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the country.
stuff 'bout stuff.
by silver82blade on Oct 20, 2025 11:00 AM EDT up reply actions
... girls, beach, southern fried football
They wore garnet helmets.
by tryptic67 on Oct 20, 2025 11:06 AM EDT up reply actions
I think what happened in that Kentucky game was Carolina was trying to run up the score.
They had so much success passing early on that Spurrier wanted to keep doing it and put up a big number on the scoreboard. Garcia just got cold really fast, and Spurrier never adjusted. I don’t remember wondering where the running game was myself ‘til the game became competitive. Early in the second half I wanted them to run up the score too, so I can’t blame him too much. Spurrier just needs to stop saying running would’ve done no good, learn the lesson that we don’t have the offense to pass all night, and not make the same mistake again. Maybe he should get a pass for that game. I would’ve thought Carolina could pass all night too if I had just seen the Alabama game.
stuff 'bout stuff.
by silver82blade on Oct 20, 2025 10:41 AM EDT reply actions
Agreed.
Watch the reply of our first drive of the second half. We had the ball down on Kentucky’s 40 or so, and on first got a short completion to Jeffery. 2nd and 5. Then we run a reverse for a single yard and then, instead of just trying to pick up the first down, we throw an incomplete bomb over the middle. Granted, Sanders was wide open over the middle, and if we had connected it likely would have been the game. But we were certainly trying to air it out.
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by Gamecock Man on Oct 20, 2025 10:54 AM EDT up reply actions
I respectfully disagree
I don’t think it is possible to run up the score in the first half against a conference rival who we’ve been playing closely the last few years. We needed to deliver a knock out blow - we didn’t. Garcia got complacent, then couldn’t get it in gear when Marcus Lattimore went out and Alshon Jeffery got gimpy.
If Spurrier abandoned the run, or inexplicably forgot to play Kenny, that’s on him. Perhaps his other mistake was thinking Garcia could beat the UK secondary. I personally don’t think his motive was running up the score but winning - and he just picked the wrong strategy. Maybe it was pure mulish pride that made stick with air game.
They wore garnet helmets.
by tryptic67 on Oct 20, 2025 11:01 AM EDT up reply actions
I guess that's fair enough...
“Running up the score” is a fuzzy term; if Marcus had been in the game, I don’t doubt that we could have run it up on Marcus’s legs. What I do think sometimes is that Spurrier likes the style points associated with a flashy passing game, and that may be why he chose to try to air it out rather than run it out. However, I think what you’re implying is that we probably shouldn’t try to psychologize Spurrier; at the end of the day, he was trying to win, and he chose the wrong strategy considering that his QB was cold. That’s that, I guess.
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by Gamecock Man on Oct 20, 2025 11:54 AM EDT up reply actions
We lost because we DIDN'T try to run up the score.
I think that the coaching staff played a good game of “We’re taking Kentucky seriously, we won’t have a hangover after ’Bama.” However, what the coaches say and what the players think aren’t always in line. Just look at the hype after last week’s game. "The Chicken Curse is over!" "USC has finally turned the corner!" "If USC ever had a chance to take the SEC championship, this is the year!" "Let’s give fate a chance!" Everyone seemed to forget that this is Gamecock football, and we can loose to anyone, anywhere. cough, cough, NAVY, cough
After the team handily dominated KY in the first half, they went into the locker room and started thinking about which cheerleader they were going to take back to the hotel room. The players thought "We just beat ‘Bama, and there is no way that KY can come back now." I must admit, normal fans would assume that after seeing another team handle KY the way we did in the first half, that all they had to do was show up and put a few lazy points on the board to maintain the win. Except, this wasn’t any other team. This was Gamecock football at its finest. And we didn’t show up in the 2nd half.
I think we lost precisely because we DIDN’T try to run up the score on Kentucky. The SEC is a tough conference. When you have an opponent on the ropes, you don’t allow them to catch their breath. You keep the pressure on. You mix things up, and keep the other team guessing. You find a way to score. You silence the whisper in the back of their helmets that "This game isn’t over, we still have a chance to win." I’m not suggesting that you go for a two-point conversion when you have a 25 point lead over Minnesota with 6:30 left in the game. But you need to keep playing for the win. Think about the ‘Bama game. We were up by two possessions in the 4th, but every Gamecock fan in the country had the same thought: “How are we going to screw this up and loose?” That’s not what people were thinking in the 2nd half against KY.
by Cocky, Esq. on Oct 20, 2025 8:47 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm not sure how you can say that we weren't going for quick strikes based on the playcalling patterns...
But I think you’re right that the team didn’t come out fired up enough and that we lacked a killer instinct. It would probably do this team well to remember where it came from for the rest of the season.
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by Gamecock Man on Oct 21, 2025 9:01 AM EDT up reply actions
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