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#41 | |
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Male Join Date: May 2006
Location: c-town
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#42 |
1st Team All-SEC
Male Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Hartsville
Posts: 4,672
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![]() I love the Gamecocks. I love Gamecock basketball. I have only been able to make 1 game this season, and I'm thinking about making the womens game tonight.
I just think our fan base has grown almost disinterested in our basketball program. Like, they almost feel like their is no hope. I know I have grown increasingly frustrated as the season has grown on. After the A&M game, I thought that maybe we had turned a corner. Then we went to Oxford and jumped up on them by 14 points in the 2nd half, and I thought that maybe we were about to start moving in the right direction. Long story short, we blew that lead, lost that game, and seems like things have never recovered. I don't think our fans are bandwagon fans. I think our fans have a legitimate gripe about our basketball program. There is absolutely ZERO reason for a school with our resources, with an arena like we have, to go 10 years between tournament berths. Just should not happen. |
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#43 |
Future Coaching Legend
Male Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Newberry, SC
Posts: 5,823
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![]() I haven't been to a game this year, and only made 1 last year. Not because I don't want to go, but because my schedule is so packed during the season because it is also high school wrestling season. Once our season starts, I don't have time to do much else. Before I became a head coach, I went to almost all the games, but just can't get there now.
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#44 |
#1 Gamecock Braves Fan
Male Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Small Town
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#45 |
Game MVP
Male Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Columbia
Posts: 1,713
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![]() It's ridiculous to call out bandwagon fans and tell them not to come when we start winning:
1. We've been horrendous at basketball for 40 years, barring a few rare seasons (particularly 2 seasons in the 90s, both of which ended in shocking and humiliating 1st round defeats). We play in a football first-conference in which we're unquestionably the worst basketball program, and have been by every quantifiable metric since we joined in 1992. Of course we have bandwagon fans 2. We can use all the fan support we can get. I don't care who the support is coming from, whether it be bandwagoners, communists, whoever; we should take anyone on board that can stomach following this program.
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Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or fourteenth. -- George Burns |
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#46 |
1st Team All-American
Male Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: PENDLETON, SC
Posts: 10,975
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![]() You must not have been at the NC State game at home the other night. I was their and Littlejohn was maybe 30% full.
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#47 |
Banned
Male Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: St. Petersburg, FL
Posts: 9,866
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![]() So if we actually do start winning next year and the fans all show up, what are people going to actually say?
1. "Look at all these terrible fans that came out today just because we are winning. GO HOME! WE DON'T WANT YOU HERE! Where were you all when we sucked?!" or 2. "Wow look at this great crowd today! Frank Martin is a doing a good job! South Carolina has great fans, really avid! This is good to see!" This whole argument is laughable. |
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#48 |
2nd Team All-American
Male Join Date: May 2007
Location: Anderson, SC
Posts: 9,403
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![]() It has been a rough season...a lot of us knew it was going to be rough...last night took a lot of air out of people I think after the team was playing so well two weeks ago.
Just have to try to finish this season on a positive note and then start getting ready for next season.
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#49 | |
2nd Team All-American
Male Join Date: May 2007
Location: Anderson, SC
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At least we can take solice in this fact...Brownell has been there long enough to get his guys in and run his system, and they are an average team, much worse than they were under Purnell. Martin is just in his second year, with a team full of freshman. Next year will be telling for Martin, and I think we will see a lot more wins. And with as bad as the SEC is, a few good breaks, Carolina could make the tournament. Yes, because the SEC is that lousy a basketball conference outside of Florida and Kentucky.
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Baseball SEC Champs: 2000, 2002, 2011 CWS Appearances: 1975, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1985, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2012 Two-time National Champs |
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#50 | |
Game MVP
Male Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Columbia
Posts: 1,713
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Just interested in hearing from folks who think we'll be significantly improved next year. I personally think next year will be about the same as this year because of the terrible post play.
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#51 | |
Banned
Male Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: NC
Posts: 286
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#52 |
THE University OF SC
Male Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: High Point, NC
Posts: 4,027
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![]() Winning cures all...
Who cares if they are bandwagon or not. If they are paying money for the ticket, filling the seat, that's a win at this point for basketball. This team needs all the support they can get. Filling an arena that size for concerts is realistic. Filling an arena that size for SEC basketball outside of Lexington, KY? Ehhhh not sure that was a good idea. I was of the faction that thought renovating The Coliseum was a better idea instead of the CLA. Its beautiful, don't get me wrong but its not practical for our program.
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#53 | |
Game MVP
Male Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Columbia
Posts: 1,713
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Firstly, I posed a question for Roosterboy because I was interested in hearing his reasoning for why we'll be improved next year. Secondly, where have you or anyone "blown my reasoning out of the water" regarding my concerns about our post play? Nearly everyone who doesn't have their head in the sand recognizes we have serious issues in the post. Quite a few people, including myself, are troubled by both the post players currently on the roster and the fact that zero post recruits are coming in. L-Chat's minimal improvement doesn't change the fact that we're discussing a player who averages less than 5 points a game. Do you honestly think that's going to get it done in the post? He's been in the system for 2 years and is averaging roughly the same amount of points and rebounds this year as last year. Your advanced metrics show he's become a more efficient player, but again, we're talking about the efficiency of a player who ranks 93rd in the SEC in scoring and 59th in rebounding. Additionally, Kacinas has been playing better this year, but do you honestly think this guy has a high upside? Do you honestly think he's going to develop into the solid, SEC-quality post player we so desperately need? I'd say he's solidly filling a role right now, and if we need him to do any more than that then we're in trouble.
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#54 | |
Stop slow blinking at me
Male Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Charleston, SC
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#56 | |
1st Team All-SEC
Male Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Hartsville
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No way you believe this. I have watched several Clemson basketball games this year and have yet to see one that was a "packed house." |
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#57 | |
Banned
Male Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: St. Petersburg, FL
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#59 | |
Banned
Male Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: NC
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#60 | |
Game MVP
Male Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Columbia
Posts: 1,713
CockyCash: 5500 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Once again, you continue to evade any conversation about the future of our post play or the points I've brought up. Instead you've thrown a few not-so-clever barbs in response to a post I directed at another poster. Have a nice day as well.
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