Thank You, Buc

Thanks, Buc, for getting me fired up.

Now it's my duty to get you, the members of Dawgs.com nation, fired up about this Saturday. I know that we lost to Oklahoma State. I know that. I know that it's like being gutted, especially after the high hopes a LOT of us had this year.

But listen:

Listen to the following:

1) SEC play starts Saturday. That's real football. That's for the greatest conference title in the land. That's an important game. Every game counts in this conference. If you don't believe me, ask Ron Zook's 2005 Florida Gators how much losing to South Carolina can hurt you. Hell, ask the Dawgs who are still left from the 2007 season how much that hurts.

2) Saturday is the home opener. We can't have 93,000 dejected fans sitting in the stands waiting for their Dawgs to lose.

3) 2007.

4) Also 2007.

5) Steve Spurrier is the head coach of the South Carolina Gamecocks football program. For those of you who are young bucks, let me tell you something:

1990: 38-7
1991: 45-13
1992: 26-24 (Florida takes the SEC East away from us)
1993: 33-26
1994: 52-14
1995: 52-17 (half a hundred between the hedges)
1996: 47-7
1998: 38-7
1999: 30-14
2000: 34-23
2001: 24-10
2007: 16-12

Those are all of the times Steve Spurrier has beaten us since he became a head football coach in the SEC. In 1992 a terrible penalty was all that stood between Eric Zeier and a berth in Georgia's first SEC Championship game. In 1995 Steve Spurrier deliberately ran up the score in Athens because, in his own words, no one had ever scored fifty on Georgia between the hedges before.

Steve Spurrier hates Georgia, because Georgia stole an SEC Championship from him in his Heisman year. Since then, he has wanted nothing more than to beat us senseless whenever he gets the chance, and in the '90s he got the chance OFTEN.

It is because of Steve Spurrier that Georgia has this mental block where we can't beat Florida even when they're not as good as we are.

It is because of Steve Spurrier, therefore, that Georgia did not win a national title in 2002.

It is directly because of Steve Spurrier that Georgia did not win an SEC or a national title in 2007.

People, you'd better get fired up and get to the Classic City, because we MUST beat Steve Spurrier this weekend.

MUST.

MUST!!!

I will be there!! Cant wait to see the Dawgs revenge last weeks loss. Let the SEC play begin!! SIC EM!!

Should not put it like this . . . . maybe . . . . . I would rather beat SS (it is difficult to type his name) than any other coach we have EVER played against. SS and \"Slush Mouth\" have been bedfellows for many years, don't believe that watch ESPN.

Never will I forget 1995, living here every gator came out of the ponds, rivers and wherever they were and had a field day with those of us that proudly carry our logos on our vehicles, caps, etc. This has nothing to do with the young men that play football for South Carolina, it has to do with a dude that came from Tennessee and tried to make himself over to be a Floridian. We need a piece of SS, just for postings sake.

Promise you this . . . you don't hear talk about SS since UM has taken over the reigns. Another thing, if for some reason this years game does not turn out to be 3 point game, I would love to just shove his cap up his . . . . Believe it or not, this is not hate for a human being, it is all about RESPECT. SS never learned that trait. You know, the coach that voted for TT, not JS.

dapolla, glad that the squad practiced on Sunday, keep the feelings fresh and the nerve endings still raw. Rest on Monday and get ready for \"The Game\" between the \"Hedges\". Like you said, this is SEC, lots of things happen during a season, ask UF about Ole Miss. Going to keep a keen eye on a couple of positions and hope they pan out. Go Dawgs!