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wonder where he cut his teeth with "big time" football........ Same place as Bo, the SEC. You do realize your program is going back to where it has always been when Spurrier leaves, right? Do you mean beating OSU in the Outback Bowl over and over? Sure, we could go up or down or stay the same. Some programs never return to their greatness after a tremendous head coach leaves and maybe they never will. Time will tell.

wonder where he cut his teeth with "big time" football........ Same place as Bo, the SEC.

I'm sure some degree of negative recruiting goes all over from outright lies like, "that coach is retiring next year" to graduation rates, to little rib jabbing stuff like "we beat them by double digits last year," and everything in b/w. Spurrier never named the school, but he let it be none that he knew it was being done. He called out the guy who's not in the club (SEC), w/o even specifically saying his name. The whole time, Bo (or whoever the Asst is) knows what Spurrier is talking about and now he knows that Spurrier will bring it up whenever in the media. So that NU coach (especially if he's an Asst) is thinking, "crap, I pissed off one of the most networked HC's in the NCAA, I made up some stuff, got called out on it and now I could look even more like jerk." While that is going on, Spurrier is leaning back drinking a Coors and having a good laugh about it while he's chatting with Stoops and Gruden (yeah, they're buddies.) Spurrier sent out the message, don't negative recruit SC, otherwise you'll get called out on it, but probably only after we land the recruit and find out. I imagine if SC negatively recruits against a school then we'll get called out the same...unless we're really good at it. Also, to whoever in this thread wrote about paying for a 3 Star recruit...lmao. sure.

Is there point here or do you just like trolling our board? I didn't troll this board, I called out some unsubstantiated false accusations made about this player's and USC's character. I posted this b/c people for the past 12 hours were assuming things on why he chose USC and here was an article with quotes directly from him. Also to point out the things I said early on were factual i.e. he never visited USC. His quote from that article was that basically he chose USC b/c he felt the coaches were genuine and there was a shot at early playing time. We only have 1 SDE on the roster right now, so that's legit, we signed another this class though besides McClain. Still doesn't excuse your dickish behavior. Everyone knows his parents wanted him closer to home, so drop it already. How's it dickish? (that is rhetorical) Yesterday, I come to this site, I don't think we're getting him, but I wish him well and even said that I thought it was awful that after a team didn't get a recruit sometimes fans start saying awful things about him like, "he wasn't that good, he had bad grades, etc...." I came on here today, he committed to USC, and I see a bunch of garbage like, "USC cheats, USC pays players, this kid is a puss, etc...." So I call out the bullsh#t and point out people throwing stones in glass house issue or just making ups bullsh#t claims.

Is there point here or do you just like trolling our board? I didn't troll this board, I called out some unsubstantiated false accusations made about this player's and USC's character. I posted this b/c people for the past 12 hours were assuming things on why he chose USC and here was an article with quotes directly from him. Also to point out the things I said early on were factual i.e. he never visited USC. His quote from that article was that basically he chose USC b/c he felt the coaches were genuine and there was a shot at early playing time. We only have 1 SDE on the roster right now, so that's legit, we signed another this class though besides McClain. Its pretty well known USC cheats. They have been on penalty for a couple years now. Oh yeah, I mean USC and NU are both on probation or coming off of it for impermissible benefits right now, right? This is just going to circle us around to the difference b/w the school giving away $30+K in books to some students getting a discount an extended rate at a hotel valued up to $19K. Let's save time and just know that IDGAF, it really doesn't matter what the conditions were, that's why the punishments were just about the same.

Is there point here or do you just like trolling our board? I didn't troll this board, I called out some unsubstantiated false accusations made about this player's and USC's character. I posted this b/c people for the past 12 hours were assuming things on why he chose USC and here was an article with quotes directly from him. Also to point out the things I said early on were factual i.e. he never visited USC. His quote from that article was that basically he chose USC b/c he felt the coaches were genuine and there was a shot at early playing time. We only have 1 SDE on the roster right now, so that's legit, we signed another this class though besides McClain.

Here's an article written today with quotes from McClain. http://www.goupstate.com/article/20140205/PSPORTS02/140209844/-1/PSPORTS " McClain to sign with USC, by Phil Kornblut DE Blake McClain (6-4 284) of Jacksonville, FL has decided to sign with USC flipping from Nebraska to whom he committed last weekend. McClain picks the Gamecocks sight unseen. He's never visited. But USC recruiter Steve Spurrier Jr. worked him hard over the last week after he decommitted from Florida State. "It was the fact the coaches were very genuine and really showed that they wanted me," McClain said. He also said the chance for early playing time at USC was an important factor. Last season McClain had 24 tackles for loss, 15 sacks and forced 15 fumbles. "He's very athletic and can play inside or outside," said his coach Adam Geiss. "He's a heck of an athlete. He can run and make plays." "

Whitney Hotel in Columbia. Great callback. Player's weren't paying anything to live in an upscale hotel room and have housekeepers keep the place clean. That's not factual at all. The players were paying a discounted extended stay rate that was approved by that hotel's GM (who was NOT affiliated with USC) and offered to other people besides players, that the hotel provided receipts for. The players used their stipend to pay for the rooms, which all NCAA can do to pay for off campus housing. All this pay for player stuff is pretty funny considering NU is also on probation right now for giving athletes impermissible benefits, except these came directly from the school... you know, glass houses and all.... http://msn.foxsports...ion-ncaa-020112 Damn us and our discount books! I'm not going to multi quote everyone in this page, but really. You're on probation for a reason, saying, "well this one is worse, or that one is special," is all just splitting hairs. Rules were broken, punishments were levy. I can see this is just going to turn into a butt-hurt fiasco with unsubstantiated claims of "USC pays players." It couldn't be b/c USC's facilities are top notch, that USC has been a Top 10 program the past three seasons, that USC has the BCSAQ's longest home winning streak, that USC is closer to his home, that USC puts DL in the NFL, or that we have a great coaching staff...sure it couldn't be that....It must be something outlandish. lol

Whitney Hotel in Columbia. Great callback. Player's weren't paying anything to live in an upscale hotel room and have housekeepers keep the place clean. That's not factual at all. The players were paying a discounted extended stay rate that was approved by that hotel's GM (who was NOT affiliated with USC) and offered to other people besides players, that the hotel provided receipts for. The players used their stipend to pay for the rooms, which all NCAA can do to pay for off campus housing. All this pay for player stuff is pretty funny considering NU is also on probation right now for giving athletes impermissible benefits, except these came directly from the school... you know, glass houses and all.... http://msn.foxsports...ion-ncaa-020112

Spurrier has never been connected to a pay for play scheme in all his years of coaching, if it did happen we would be recruiting a lot better than we are and we would've won a Natty by now. It's that simple. I'm not saying it doesn't go on, an Auburn booster paid Cam Newton's dad over $180K to go to Auburn, that happened. However, USC's players don't have cars or rims like some Bama players from poor households do, and they don't have lake houses like the clemson players from poor households do. I mean, Clowney was the #1 recruit in the nation, he drove around a 6 year old Chrysler 300 that didn't even have custom rims. c'mon man, it's not that. LOL...cause you have proof of this? Yes, Spiller, Boyd's family and then another guy who was his little brother's guardian. Also I have some great pic's. Remember your OL Kenneth Page and "his uncle's money" after he signed? Remember Mike Bellamy and "his aunt's money" after he signed? How about your TE, Dwayne Allen's interview after the 70 point blowout to WVU, "I have more money and resources than I've ever had my whole life."

Spurrier has never been connected to a pay for play scheme in all his years of coaching, if it did happen we would be recruiting a lot better than we are and we would've won a Natty by now. It's that simple. I'm not saying it doesn't go on, an Auburn booster paid Cam Newton's dad over $180K to go to Auburn, that happened. However, USC's players don't have cars or rims like some Bama players from poor households do, and they don't have lake houses like the clemson players from poor households do. I mean, Clowney was the #1 recruit in the nation, he drove around a 6 year old Chrysler 300 that didn't even have custom rims. c'mon man, it's not that.

IDK, if it will or not. We haven't had a guy commit by signing an LOI and then want to flip before he arrived on campus, during Spurrier's tenure. So I can't say for sure how we would handle that. I would think that Spurrier would say, "what is the school's or SEC policy on that," and then do whatever it says. With that said, I would imagine he would have to sit out a year or go to JUCO and then transfer to whatever program he could go to after that. However, that's just my speculation, and like I said, it hasn't happened before at USC with Spurrier, so I don't know for sure.

Yes, his LOI has been faxed to our Athletic Department, it actually came in early this morning before 9 a.m. EST.

I'm shocked, I didn't think this was going to happen w/o him visiting. He never took an OV here and there was speculation that he took an unofficial visit here, but I believe that statement was recanted by Blake himself. I don't know if he came here for just a game, but didn't interact with the coaches/staff or see the campus and counted that as an unofficial visit. Glad to have him, we needed another SDE on the roster, now we'll have 3 next season, hopefully 4 if Wideman flips from FSU too.

Well this has been interesting at least. You have a SDE with a solid offer list, but the National Championship program who offered him asked him to gray shirt, so that's odd. Then in under 2 weeks he has an opportunity to make 1 visit, but he lists 2 schools as his finalists. NU got in before SC got the visit locked up, then Spurrier Jr tries to get him to hold off on committing before he visits SC. To my knowledge he's never visited SC. Next he commits to NU, so I think USC is out. Now they day before NSD info comes out that it'ss 50-50 and info later in the evening said USC pulled ahead. This is too weird of a situation for me to think he's coming to USC. Would he really commit to USC w/o taking a visit here? If he really wasn't sure, why did he commit to NU. He said he couldn't change his last OV from NU to USC b/c he already gave his word to the NU Coaches that he would visit that weekend, so doesn't the same principle apply with his commitment? I would like to see him end up at SC, don't get me wrong, but there isn't enough substantial proof outside of what people feel on message boards or pay site analysts saying, "sources say it's this way or that." To answer/respond to some of the questions/comments I just say on pg 5 of this thread: "$EC won't give you the education you need, young man, and I don't just mean in the classroom." Are you sure, Dylan, what's his desired major? NU is ranked #47 on USNEWs, USC is ranked #55, are we just splitting hairs here, both schools are in the middle of the pack? What really matters in this type of situation is what does he want to study, then the rankings matter. http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public/page+2 "People on RSS are reporting that he will probably be signing with SC, but that might actually be a good thing for us." This is one of the silliest things in recruiting. I wish it would stop, but it never will. Just b/c a guy chooses another school, the slighted fans come up with, "he's a bad egg, his grades weren't up to our standards, I heard he had a bad work ethic (not when we were recruiting him, but at the moment he chose another school." "I don't get why SC wants him so bad when it is rather evident that he would rather be in Nebraska. You want players that WANT to play for you. Not players who parents want to play for you. Idiotic." How is it evident? Based on info the paysites are putting out, he's 50-50 on what he wants to do, but his parents want him at SC (again, according to the paysites.) Now "why" SC wants him is easy. We just lost 2 All American DL and both of our starting DE's. We have 4 DE's on scholarship right now, 3 of the 4 you would classify as WDE's. We have one SDE 1st Team JUCO All American committed, and we have one WDE HS Army All American Committed. We had 247sports #1 JUCO WDE committed, but he can't transfer to USC from his JUCO b/c the University of Illinois played him and gave him an extra year of eligibility when he was technically academically ineligible. The SEC Admissions/Transfer office found that out in reviewing Darrius Caldwell's transcripts. (Y'all are Big1G folk now, has that story been publicized up here or would anyone even care...Illinois letting academically ineligible players play/practice and stay on scholarship.) So really, we need a SDE this class. We're trying to flip another one of FSU's SDE/DT's, Dexter Wideman, and we feel okay about that. We're probably going after both Wideman and Blake b/c neither told us yet that he's coming to USC and so we're playing the field.

I got to watch the replay of y'all's game yesterday. Congratulations on the win. I think my scouting report before the game, above, was pretty dead on. QB was meh, DB's were bad, Lynch would be good, their RB could get gimpy at any moment, and their coaching left a lot to be desired. This was a much different team than they started the year with, but still a good win for y'all.

I would agree with that.

That chart would be really interesting if it included the state populations.

It's Connor. Shaw was a stud, never lost a home game in 3 years, only threw 1 INT the whole season and managed games like a boss. He was from Flowery Branch, GA. That whole, "when so&so leaves" argument is played out. It was the same things said, when Garcia, Alshon, Cliff, Ingram, Lattimore etc... left, but we've been recruiting really well for 6 years now and we just reload. Our backup QB, Dylan Thompson has beaten 4 ranked teams on the road already (Clem, Mich, UCF, Mizz...although to be fair Shaw was the star of the Mizz game.) He'll be a 5th year Sr, with 2 years of actual collegiate game experience. He'll be fine, and if he's not, we have a RS Soph Parade All American backup and another guy who owns about every passing/TD record for NC HS football waiting in the wings. We're stacked at QB. As far as #7's departure, it will be noticed, but it won't fall off. Team's had to plan for him all year and that freed up guys like our DT Quarles to lead the SEC's DT's in sacks and TFL's. We have a JUCO All American DE (Jhaustin Thomas) coming in, another US Army All American DE (Dante Sawyer) committed, another #1 JUCO WDE on 247 (Darrius Caldwell) coming (if he qualifies) and 3 DE's already on the roster with game experience. One of those 3 was the GA 6A Defensive Player of the Year 2012 (Darrius English.) We're stacked at DE.

Wow, 9 of the Top 20 are in the SEC, and this is before the SEC Network has even launched. 9 SEC 5 Big1G 3 Pac 2 Big12 1 IND (ND)

We just got to keep winning 3 out of 4 and then in my lifetime, it will be close. No doubt, our history is not stellar, but we're killing it lately, going for a 3rd consecutive Top 10 ranking. Columbia is hot (wicked humidity) as hell in August and very well may be the gateway to hell then.

Sure, Kiffen was a poison everywhere he went, even So Cal twice, so why not Bama. Saban's probably just doing this so he can fire him.

Whoever thinkgs clemson would win a National Championship after getting beat down by FSU and USC is nutty. clemson wouldn't get out of the 2nd round. I like the idea of an 8 team playoff though.

From an outsider looking in perspective on the UGA team, they're just another 8-4 team. Their tied in record with Vanderbilt, but Vandy won the head to head matchup b/w the two. Their defense is hot garbage. Their DC has been in a decline for the 3rd straight year and doesn't have the personnel to run a great 3-4 defense this season. Their pass defense is the weakest part of their team. Their starting QB is out for the season so they are brining in a guy who started against Ga Tech (7-5). He went 22-36 against them for under 300 yards, 2 TD's, 1 INT, a 57.6 QBR, and less than a 1 yard per carry rushing avg. He's all kinds of meh. Then they have a RB who could get hurt at any moment, like he's done all season and miss game time. When the guy is on, he's on, but his toughness is a big question mark. They have some backups at RB that can play. There are 2 WR's, Conley and Bennett, but I never know if they're playing or not, b/c their busted up every other game it seems, and does it really matter, b/c Aaron Murray isn't throwing to them? The TE Lynch is good, but the 5 Star recruit Jay Rome has been a non-factor for most of his career at UGA. They have a good kicker though. However, their coaching overall is below avg. If you look at their recruiting classes the past 8 years, (usually Top 10) you really gotta wonder why it's so rare that they actually end up ranked in the Top10 end of season rankings.

Agreed, Lamin will have been out of HS for 3 seasons after this season. His 1st year was at Gray Academy, and he will have been at his JUCO for two seasons. He didn't play his first season there, so like you said, he has 3 to play 3. We'll be thinner at DT in 2015, so he'll be able to grab a starting spot for sure by then. He may even get a starting spot earlier if Quarles goes pro early after this season.