The Gamecocks thrashed the Tennessee Vols last night. i watched the game online - which was frigging sweet.
ESPN 360 online - gotta love it. Its a feature for AT&T customers that most people don’t know about. Check it out. The only odd thing was that you couldn’t ever hear the sideline reporters. Other than that, I thoroughly enjoyed watching the game online. We bought a house back in May. To date, I’ve still not had cable or satellite installed. Initially it was because I was being cheap. Then after a few months, i found that I really didn’t miss it. So to watch games this season, I’ve had to go to bars or *GASP* by a ticket and watch it in person. Or I could get sloppy drunk at my Brother’s house. Anyways, I like what ESPN is doing. latency was not an issue. I didn’t mind the commercials, either.
Back to my Cock - err- Cocks. We beat Tennessee soundly. I must say, though, that I’m tired of these sports pundits making up stories and putting them ourt there as the truth. Steve Spurrier is not leaving USC. We’ve been midly successful - but our boosters have more money than God and are more willing to spend it on the team. If you wanna build a team, SC is the place to do it, right now. We’re hungry to win, we’re not suffering financially like the rest of the country and we’ve been losers a long time. Spurrier sees this. Stop making up stories.
Don’t fire Fulmer. It’s kinda disgusting the way coaches get treated these days. Fulmer is the man. He IS Tennessee football. But a bad season here and there and all of a sudden the fans are calling for someone’s head. Look, firing Fat Fulmer will only hurt your football program. He’s a rock solid guy with experience that everyone knows. I remember all the bitching and moaning about mercenaries like Nick Saban nd Rick Petino. But if Tennessee fires this guy and then hires some head hunter - and then wanders in ineptitude for the next decade, we can trace it back to this game. Hey, no one is calling for Paterno’s job anymore, huh? I guess PSU fans are lucky no one was paying them any fucking attentions
I bet Michigan misses their Old Ball Coach.
It’s the age we live in and I don’t mind it. Lets face the fact that everyone is in this thing to get what they can get - ethics be damned. It’s an issue when a football coach at a university - an institute of higher learning - makes 15x the salary of a tenured and published professor. Lets accept that we’re all shitty people who enjoy these shitty inequities and stop pretending tp give a fuck about guys dancing in the endzone or quitting in the middle of a season. this thing here is a business, and if we learned anything from business, it’s that you gotta look out for yourself.
First our state - err Republicans - forced our state away from state retirement benefits. Then our representatives - err, republicans - pushed us into state Orp invesments rn by their buddies. Then they blew the money on coke and bad home loans. CEOs are still taking $400k vacations and pocketing millions, while Joe 6-Pack misses a game because it’s blacked out. Yup, the NFL worked it out so that if you live within 50 miles of a stadium, you can’t watch a game unless you by a $50 ticket… even though your taxes subsidized the costs of the team.
Today will be witness to the beginning of the end here in SC. Game Day is already a mess which consumes the entirety of the city. I still live in Columbia, so I know better than to head anywhere near the South Side within 3 hours of the game. Every road is diverted towards the stadium. For good or ill, all traffic is pointed towards Williams Brice.