A couple interesting stats on just how bad the Cocks are as a program
- They have 1 conference title in their history, a 7-4 club in 1969
- Their biggest post season accomplishment is a Capital One Bowl win over #20 Nebraska
- They have 1 division championship in their program history, and proceeded to lose by 40 in the championship game
- They enter the stadium to Sandstorm. How did they come up with that choice you ask? They accidentally played it at the end of an Ole Miss game and it became tradition. Their most well known tradition came to be because some 22 year old media intern ****ed up and played the wrong song.
They are a JV, gimmicky program who has benefitted from real football schools all having down periods at the same time, and they still couldnt win ****.
Careful, every year, including this year, we have UT fans here and on other boards singing their praises. USCe is probably annually the most overrated team among UT fans. I don't get it.
They rarely impress me, beating us anytime in the past decade is not the measure of success. Especially when they struggle to do it. Yet we have fans who talk about how good they're gonna be. Good is relative. I'm sure one year again it'll happen, but it hasn't yet.
As you and a couple of others have said, even in the year they were successful it was tainted by the fact the east was so weak and then they got blown out in the championship game.
While I do agree the field has leveled more with the tv revenue distribution, I believe Muschamp has done an adequate job. I dont think however he is going to be the guy that could vault SCAR to elite status. In a few years, if they were willing to take the financial risk to hire a BIG time coach and staff, and Muschamp can keep SCAR at 7-5 to 9-3 during that span. Well, I dont see how its out of the realm of possibility that they could make a power move. Maybe Im wrong but I do see SCAR as a bigger threat than Mizzou. They have access to Florida and a few Georgia recruits, parts of North Carolina. This is all hypothetical of course but I dont see this as an impossibility.You are missing the point like many others. SC is not declaring they have arrived, far from it. But as my posts tried to make clear, they are a relatively recent entry to the SEC and were not ready for big boy FB upon entry. They werent ready for SEC ball at any stage prior to entry, and it took them many years to gain their footing. They have no history or past worth acknowledgement. But in the past 10-15 years they have found a foothold, just as many other universities have which were never considered relevant in CFB. The answer is TV money, it is spread evenly in conferences and today schools like SC can spend just like the old school elites lie UT. Facilities between UT and most SEC schools were always massively in UT favor historically, as well as their ability to pay coaches. No more with modern TV money. IF an SEC school is in a good recruiting footprint today and has the right coaching and admin leadership, it can compete unlike years by gone. The days of 80%winning percentages vs schools like SC are long gone, so cling to history if it comforts, but the future is new. It seems to me likely that UT could get to a 55-60% win percentage vs many SEC schools like SC going forward, I stated this above, but it could also equally be closer to 50-50 going forward. The old days have sailed. I might argue that SC has a better recruiting footprint and though that statement is less than fact, it needs to be considered.
While I do agree the field has leveled more with the tv revenue distribution, I believe Muschamp has done an adequate job. I dont think however he is going to be the guy that could vault SCAR to elite status. In a few years, if they were willing to take the financial risk to hire a BIG time coach and staff, and Muschamp can keep SCAR at 7-5 to 9-3 during that span. Well, I dont see how its out of the realm of possibility that they could make a power move. Maybe Im wrong but I do see SCAR as a bigger threat than Mizzou. They have access to Florida and a few Georgia recruits, parts of North Carolina. This is all hypothetical of course but I dont see this as an impossibility.
I feel like USCjr has been taking advantage of weak Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee teams in the recent years... Georgia already vaulted back up... I expect TN and FL to do the same though I still expect SCAR to remain competitive and bowl eligible
Was in that stadium for a game last year, needs the facelift its getting, not the asset proclaimed