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Historically Bad Rushing Offense Has Gamecocks Regressing
South Carolina is squandering the nation’s best quarterback with its inability to move the football on the ground…
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Considering the dismal starts of the much vaunted Carolina and Clemson football teams, one might consider the only undefeated college football team in the state, Presbyterian College. The Blue Hose stand at 4-0 after a 73-3 victory this past Saturday. This is from a school that does not give athletic scholarships and pays its coaches less than $100,000 s year. Compare that per win to the $11 million plus and $8 million plus that Dabo and Shane rake in.
Football at USC generated $78 million in revenue with a profit of $31 million in 2024. PC almost broke even (generated $1.4 million, spent 1.4 million).
While I disagree that universities should even be in the business of being the minor leagues for professional sports, you can’t argue with the fact that Shane and “Datboy” make money for their universities. PC is doing well but they’re last opponent was a small private school with about 851 students (PC has 1,200). In fact, USC’s freshman class is almost the same size as their opponent’s undergrad student populations combined.
My comment was somewhat “tongue in cheek,” but I would offer this. No doubt football at Carolina generates millions of dollars in revenue and profit, as you point out. Shane and Dabo do indeed “make money for their universities.” The money continually rolls in from ticket sales, contributions, and TV and conference-related sources. But when has it not? It is built in. Does it really matter who the coach is from a financial standpoint? When Lou Holtz went 0-11 in 1999, attendance still averaged over 78,000 a game and the conference contributions dropped not one penny. One might argue that lowly PC gets a much greater return, at least this year and in fan satisfaction, from its coaching staff than Carolina.
Sellers will be next drafts Sanders… he hasn’t shown shit this year except how to take sacks 20 yards behind the line of scrimmage. Odds are he will skip the draft and join the portal along with any other halfway decent player on the team. If you think this team is a shitshow, just “Wait ’til next year!!!”.
Shane Beamer is history. It’s just a matter of when. Sooner than later. He will not land at another SEC school or even ACC school. He’ll try to pull a Dan Mullen who went out west to UNLV and is doing pretty well. Mullen may have a back door into the ACC but likely not SEC. Beamer will not. He must think ranting and raving and pulling his hair on the sidelines, and gnashing of teeth worked for Dabo for a while, but it’s not professional and not sustainable. It doesn’t help the players and as a fan it’s discouraging to see. This squad and coaching staff will be known as the team who didn’t support one of the best QBs in the land on a path to Heisman. If Sellers wants a shot at the title, he’ll enter his name into the new transfer portal window between January 2nd and January 16th.