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James Carlen vs. the University of South Carolina
I went to the National Archives to unpack one of Gamecock Football's greatest mysteries: why, exactly, did we fire Jim Carlen? Behold Part 1 of a multi-part series.
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In 1974 USC made an 'abortive' attempt to hire Lou Holtz
Twenty-five years before his triumphant return to Columbia, the Gamecocks tried to hire a former USC assistant and rising star, Lou Holtz, away from N.C. State.
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I am being systematically haunted by underqualified university presidents
Wow, can't believe they're already doing a reboot of the Bob Caslen saga. (Plus a few other things on my mind this week.)
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The case for 2000 as USC's best Georgia win
Since the Gamecocks are almost certainly not going to beat Georgia in 2023, let's seek refuge in our memories of the year 2000, a time when they did.
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2023 is USC's first Spider-Man Meme year since 1983
Plus, what the infrequency of this phenomenon says about the futility of the "real Carolina" debate.
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Let's do some extremely risk-averse sports betting
Read to the end for some truly exquisite Clemson trash talk.
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Todd Ellis was rejected for jersey retirement in 1989
Plus, notes on Lou Holtz and Georgia's sexual assault scandal.
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NIL and the future of recruiting hoaxes
In the 2010s, recruiting sites got pretty good at weeding out frauds. But NIL gives grifters a new foothold.
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8 takeaways from the historical SP+ data ESPN released this week
The godfather of advanced CFB stats has released a new resource that's going to make it a lot more fun to talk about the Gamecocks of yore.
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The 2024 SEC schedule and the end of the regional sports conference
The stopgap 2024 schedule, the first of the 16-team era, saw South Carolina lose its three most important rivals.
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The defenestration of Charlie Mac by Todd Ellis and Learfield/ISP
The story of how South Carolina replaced one of the most decorated play-by-play commentators in the industry with an underqualified novice.
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The Lou Holtz-Jesse Helms saga is more complicated than you think
Forty years before Shemy Schembechler, another football coach was fired for supporting segregationist policies. Sort of. Not really. It's complicated.