Arrested Development

By fitsnews • on April 3, 2008

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SOUTH CAROLINA’S LACKLUSTER FOOTBALL PROGRAM CAN’T STAY CLEAN

FITSNews - April 3, 2008 - We know hip hop artists Arrested Development like to sing about Tennessee, but it’s the South Carolina football program which the band’s name most aptly describes.

Not only was last year’s installment of Gamecock football a colossal disappointment, but South Carolina also slipped a couple notches in terms of its off-season recruiting this year. Add to that the fact that its current players can’t seem to stay out of trouble, and you’ve got a recipe for perpetuating the sort of mediocrity that has defined this program for the past 116 years.

Of course head coach Steve Spurrier doesn’t want us to boo our “student-athletes” (even when they lose to friggin’ Vanderbilt), which in and of itself pisses us off almost as much as losing to friggin’ Vanderbilt.

We’ve already offered our suggestions for turning Carolina football around, but alas the state of South Carolina isn’t a benevolent dictatorship and Sic Willie is not it benevolent dictator. If it was, we’d probably just do what Clemson does and field a semi-pro team …

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