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Editors note:
This was originaly posted in the thread \"Disgusted\" but I though it made a good topic to start discussion about the SC game.
Written by dapolla
Well, this is why I HATE this game every year, because every year SCarolina can beat us. It's always just a question of when.
The bad news: We're not as fast as we thought we were. My GOD, was SCarolina fast! On both sides of the ball! They averaged something like 6.7 yards PER PLAY, wouldn't let us run, outran our secondary AND our wideouts, and just generally were better than us.
Also, we're immature. How can you be given 30 yards in a row on penalties and only have a 35-yard drive to show for it? How can you be given a roughing penalty on one punt and a fumble recovery on another and still not score? How can you get a 68-yard punt return and a 51-yard run from scrimmage in the same game and not score as a result of either?
Stafford was rattled, throwing off his back foot. After the game Kevin Butler said he never once saw Stafford get set. He was just lobbing the ball up there. It's a tribute to how good a receiver Massaquoi really is that he caught that 3rd-and-23 over his head sideways falling down, because it was overthrown and was behind him.
Also...where is CMR's recruiting integrity? At his final preseason press conference he stated quite clearly that he was going to look for spots to put Joe Cox into the game, because he's such a talented quarterback. However, in both a blowout win over OSU and a game against the Gamecocks in which we could have used a change of pace -- and MS could have used a breather -- Joe Cox never took his ballcap off. I'm not calling for JC to start, by any means, but do you remember Colorado last year?
The good news: we're better than SCarolina. We just weren't better than them on Saturday. Look, we spent a whole year prepping for OSU. They spent the whole year prepping for us. The fact of the matter is that SCarolina is going to lose more than one SEC game. We have the capability of beating Tennessee -- who lost to Cal and looked terrible against Southern Miss -- as well as Auburn, as their game this week showed us. We can beat 'Bama. Nobody knows Florida's real capabilities, because they've played two Pop Warner teams. I don't know that we can beat LSU, but we're certainly capable of taking this loss as ammunition, running the table in the SEC and at least winning the East. That's really the goal every year, isn't it? Because the SEC is just a game...the division is a marathon. That's one of the major reasons we won the SEC in '05...we were able to just prep for LSU.
That's not to say that I'm not sick over this loss. But I know that we can recover.
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[1) do you really believe that Spurrier spent the entire year preparing for Georgia? To believe this would think mighty highly of ourselves.
2) On what do you base that Ga. is better than SC? At this point in time, not just Saturday, SC is better than GA.
3) SC has the capabilities to beat Tenn. and Florida as has been proved the past couple of years.
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