Comments on: The Spurrier Math http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/01/the-spurrier-math/ Unfair ... Imbalanced Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:55:24 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: fromupstate http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/01/the-spurrier-math/comment-page-1/#comment-74119 fromupstate Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:57:03 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=32405#comment-74119 Here's the bottom line folks.... It aint about Steven Spurrier or Lou Holtz. It's about the conference you joined. S. Carolina is trying to climb Mt. Everest with a 10 speed bicycle..... Here's the deal..... S. Carolina has 3 "hump" games every year. Those are Georgia, Tennessee and Florida. S. Carolina has to be able to win 2 out of 3 in those matchups and make it the rest of the way with only one other conference loss. That's an incredibly difficult task that any Tiger fan will admit. As far as the money..... joining the SEC was the best thing that ever happened to USC football....as far as success???? It sealed the deal on mediocrity for 20 years. See below. S. Carolina vs. ___________ (since 2002) University of Florida – 1 win 6 losses =16% University of Georgia- 1 win 7 loses = 14% University of Tennessee- 2 wins! 6 losses = 33% combined winning percentage = (4/19) = 21% Worth Noting.... The Gamecocks actually have a better combined winning percentage against these teams than they do against that other little school in the state of South Carolina. Clemson University – 1 win 6 losses =16% Success by association does NOT Exist in college sports, so stop waiving the SEC flag like it's a crown because it has been a curse (other than the money). I know that a Gamecock would never admit it.... but you should have never left the ACC. You have a good football team, but you are not LSU, UGA, UT, UF, or Alabama and you know what else...... neither is Clemson. The difference is that Clemson doesn't have to play those guys year in year out. Oh by the way.....in response to (OhNoNotAgain)... if the NCAA handed out the Death Penalty for Clemson's violations from 1978-1980, Alabama and Georgia (among others) would not have football programs either. Get your facts straight. I would kindly ask that any rebuttals to this post include a few verifiable facts sprinkled in there with the commentary just as I have done. Here’s the bottom line folks…. It aint about Steven Spurrier or Lou Holtz. It’s about the conference you joined. S. Carolina is trying to climb Mt. Everest with a 10 speed bicycle…..

Here’s the deal….. S. Carolina has 3 “hump” games every year. Those are Georgia, Tennessee and Florida. S. Carolina has to be able to win 2 out of 3 in those matchups and make it the rest of the way with only one other conference loss. That’s an incredibly difficult task that any Tiger fan will admit. As far as the money….. joining the SEC was the best thing that ever happened to USC football….as far as success???? It sealed the deal on mediocrity for 20 years. See below.

S. Carolina vs. ___________ (since 2002)

University of Florida – 1 win 6 losses =16%
University of Georgia- 1 win 7 loses = 14%
University of Tennessee- 2 wins! 6 losses = 33%

combined winning percentage = (4/19) = 21%

Worth Noting…. The Gamecocks actually have a better combined winning percentage against these teams than they do against that other little school in the state of South Carolina.

Clemson University – 1 win 6 losses =16%

Success by association does NOT Exist in college sports, so stop waiving the SEC flag like it’s a crown because it has been a curse (other than the money). I know that a Gamecock would never admit it…. but you should have never left the ACC.

You have a good football team, but you are not LSU, UGA, UT, UF, or Alabama and you know what else…… neither is Clemson. The difference is that Clemson doesn’t have to play those guys year in year out.

Oh by the way…..in response to (OhNoNotAgain)… if the NCAA handed out the Death Penalty for Clemson’s violations from 1978-1980, Alabama and Georgia (among others) would not have football programs either. Get your facts straight. I would kindly ask that any rebuttals to this post include a few verifiable facts sprinkled in there with the commentary just as I have done.

]]> By: CNSYD http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/01/the-spurrier-math/comment-page-1/#comment-74068 CNSYD Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:01:52 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=32405#comment-74068 OhNoNotAgain, In the same 10 years of the Bowden era, how many division and/or league titles did USC win? It can't be zero with the Hall of Fame coaches that they had, can it? OhNoNotAgain, In the same 10 years of the Bowden era, how many division and/or league titles did USC win? It can’t be zero with the Hall of Fame coaches that they had, can it?

]]> By: flipnut http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/01/the-spurrier-math/comment-page-1/#comment-74048 flipnut Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:26:17 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=32405#comment-74048 A short message from Clemson fans everywhere, WE LOVE SPURRIER !!! A short message from Clemson fans everywhere, WE LOVE SPURRIER !!!

]]> By: OhNoNotAgain http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/01/the-spurrier-math/comment-page-1/#comment-74036 OhNoNotAgain Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:58:23 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=32405#comment-74036 The Clemson fan turns the argument around that is used so often with them. The simple fact is, Clemson football coaches these days live and die by the result of the Carolina-Clemson game. Bowden got 10 years out of being able to beat USC but never ever get another division title or league championship. They are the ones who say USC is such an inferior school, yet Dabo Swinney was rewarded for beating USC once again. Don't know what it is about you guys, but you know how to beat us. Every time you've beaten us in the past 20 years, you haven't always been the better team. But you certainly play that one game better than all. If Clemson in the past 20 had played all its games the way it plays the Carolina game, it would have another national championship, and this one wouldn't be tainted by recruiting violations that, if the nCAA hadn't chickend out, would have been a death penalty for Death Valley. The Clemson fan turns the argument around that is used so often with them.
The simple fact is, Clemson football coaches these days live and die by the result of the Carolina-Clemson game.
Bowden got 10 years out of being able to beat USC but never ever get another division title or league championship. They are the ones who say USC is such an inferior school, yet Dabo Swinney was rewarded for beating USC once again.
Don’t know what it is about you guys, but you know how to beat us. Every time you’ve beaten us in the past 20 years, you haven’t always been the better team. But you certainly play that one game better than all.
If Clemson in the past 20 had played all its games the way it plays the Carolina game, it would have another national championship, and this one wouldn’t be tainted by recruiting violations that, if the nCAA hadn’t chickend out, would have been a death penalty for Death Valley.

]]> By: Toyota Kawaski http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/01/the-spurrier-math/comment-page-1/#comment-73989 Toyota Kawaski Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:50:58 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=32405#comment-73989 Fits you will go up in flames before SOS does. Oh never mind you already are flaming!!!!! Fits you will go up in flames before SOS does. Oh never mind you already are flaming!!!!!

]]> By: Jeffy http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/01/the-spurrier-math/comment-page-1/#comment-73986 Jeffy Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:21:06 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=32405#comment-73986 Who would we get if Spurrier gets fired. Dan Devine? Knute Rockne? 6-6. Nothing we can do about it. Who would we get if Spurrier gets fired. Dan Devine? Knute Rockne? 6-6. Nothing we can do
about it.

]]> By: Old Bike Dude http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/01/the-spurrier-math/comment-page-1/#comment-73946 Old Bike Dude Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:12:14 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=32405#comment-73946 Get ready for Joe Paterno. Or maybe Bobby Bowden. Get ready for Joe Paterno. Or maybe Bobby Bowden.

]]> By: Calhoun Fawls http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/01/the-spurrier-math/comment-page-1/#comment-73938 Calhoun Fawls Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:41:42 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=32405#comment-73938 If we fire Spurrier, no one will want the job. Tis the danger of hiring a legend. If we fire Spurrier, no one will want the job. Tis the danger of hiring a legend.

]]> By: CNSYD http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/01/the-spurrier-math/comment-page-1/#comment-73927 CNSYD Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:34:01 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=32405#comment-73927 USC Fanbase, beat Clemson and all is forgiven? What could beating Clemson possibly mean? All we hear is how they don't have the talent USC has, their coach is an ex salesman and USC's coach has won a national championship, USC has the better school, Clemson is nothing but farmers, Clemson cheats, USC is as pure as the driven snow, USC has the better fanbase, etc. So why is your goal to beat such a low rated school as Clemson? USC Fanbase, beat Clemson and all is forgiven? What could beating Clemson possibly mean? All we hear is how they don’t have the talent USC has, their coach is an ex salesman and USC’s coach has won a national championship, USC has the better school, Clemson is nothing but farmers, Clemson cheats, USC is as pure as the driven snow, USC has the better fanbase, etc. So why is your goal to beat such a low rated school as Clemson?

]]> By: USC Fanbase http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/01/the-spurrier-math/comment-page-1/#comment-73902 USC Fanbase Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:35:58 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=32405#comment-73902 Beat KKKlimpson & all is forgiven. Beat KKKlimpson & all is forgiven.

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