The perplexing bit of the USC-Clempson equation is that the boys in orange keep getting better and the shamecocks stay pitifully the same. Maybe it’s the coach. Maybe it’s recruiting. Maybe it’s the competition. Maybe it’s a lot of things and fingers will be pointed in many directions over the next few months. What won’t come up is that the failures at USC are due more to USC Board meddling in the football program than it is to any other single cause.

Face it, we don’t have the brightest football minds serving on the USC Board. Hiring their golf buddies hasn’t worked and won’t work. It’s time for a new approach. Something like letting the EXPERTS hire a young (read, Dabo-like) football coach with promise and give the coach the reins to BUILD a successful program.

As life-long Gamecock fans, we at the Crew are hoping to see SEC championships and national contenders in Columbia.

Dreams are made of…what? That’s what we’re having. Dreams. Dry dreams.

I don’t know which is worse: selling your own players down the river, or refusing to accept responsibility for one’s own recruiting.

Seriously coach…we want to support you, but passing the buck endears you to no one.