Newsletter
Carolina's disastrous first year in the SEC
A nine-game losing streak, a player mutiny, and a dalliance with hiring a notorious Clemson coach made the Gamecocks a laughingstock.
Connor Tapp
Newsletter
When Ray Tanner was on the other end of a drawn-out, slightly embarrassing USC coaching search
June Raines resigned as South Carolina's baseball coach in May 1996, and it took a month and four rejections before Mike McGee offered the job to Ray Tanner.
Newsletter
Resisting the CFB content-industrial complex
Entering 2021, my Gamecock football fandom needed a jolt. By opting out of the digital content-industrial complex, I found just what I was looking for.
Newsletter
10 years of Dabo's not-a-rivalry rant: Its legacy and mysteries
Why the rant happened the way it did and how subsequent events have changed its meaning.
Newsletter
Marcus Satterfield and the continuity problem
South Carolina's football program is in desperate need of continuity. But the ineptitude of USC's offense might nevertheless demand a shake-up.
Newsletter
Finally, some Good Auburn Luck
What had been South Carolina's most profoundly cursed SEC series is now the subject of a two-game winning streak. And we owe it all to Mike Bobo.
Newsletter
When both USC and Clemson were pursuing Frank Beamer
For two weeks in November and December of 1998, both of South Carolina's major football program were trying, with varying degrees of intensity, to hire Shane Beamer's dad.
Newsletter
How we've gotten 1999 all wrong
And what we can learn about the 2021 season from remembering what really happened in Lou Holtz's first, winless season.
Newsletter
Rich Bisaccia, the perpetual candidate
The weird history of Raiders interim HC Rich Bisaccia being the guy whose name always comes up in college head coaching searches -- but never seriously.
Newsletter
Duce Staley's USC career is massively underrated
When we talk about the best Gamecocks of all time, we don’t often mention Duce Staley. But we should.
Newsletter
On Shane Beamer's viral Georgia rant
What he said in the viral clip was entertaining, but I don't think we're focusing on the most interesting part.
Newsletter
The case for 2000 as USC's best Georgia win
Lou Holtz's first marquee win as South Carolina head coach is too often overshadowed by more recent successes.