Don’t you have the feeling the OBC is about to go on the warpath with SC’s admission’s office? (If he already hasn’t, I mean.)
Eight members of South Carolina’s 21-man signing class have yet to enroll in school, and the Gamecocks are resigned to the fact that not all the remaining players will qualify, recruiting coordinator Steve Spurrier Jr. told The State on Wednesday.
Defensive ends Dante Sawyer and Kalan Ritchie have previously announced they will not meet qualifying requirements and attend junior college with the hope of re-signing with South Carolina. The USC options for defensive end signee Jhaustin Thomas appear to be done after he failed to qualify from his junior college.
Cornerbacks Wesley Green, Chris Lammons and Darin Smalls, fullback Joe Blue and defensive tackle Dexter Wideman still are trying to meet qualifying standards in time to join the Gamecocks in August.
Eight out of twenty-one… whoa. Mark Richt has lost control over South Carolina’s academics? Too soon?
Get The Picture 
You can’t spell Academic Casualty without USC!
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that’s gonna leave a mark, even though someone would have to explain it to most of the South Carolina incoming class (“See, the letters u, s, and c are all in the words Academic Casualty….”)
I’m sure Spurrier would get it. Maybe he’d respond by taking another shot at Fulmer or Ray Goff.
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They may not be able to spell Academic Casualty, but those who play a position of immediate need will find someone to pass an online summer school program on their behalf.
Oversigning in action.
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Proof positive it’s harder to get into South Carolina than UGALY
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Bless your heart. I’m sure you’re very proud of Harvard on the Congaree, but it sounds like you’ve spent a little bit too much time out in the heat. Let us know when the average SAT score for your incoming freshman class is higher than the average July temperature in Columbia.
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Leave ’em alone 81. Gotta be tough livin’ in that same old trailer for 30 + years…
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Its almost paid for…
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What’s a srule?
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I don’t know, but I know srules were meant to be sbroken.
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What Macallenlover makes you follow when you’re toasting smores at a kumbaya sing-a-long campfire?
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His handle is so perfectly illiterate, it’s almost like its on purpose.
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“it’s”
smh
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But of course Rooster, Harvard is just the South Carolina of the East.
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Now that’s funny right there…. coming from the school that kept Clowney in school for 3 years ? geez, not only could ne not even speak, I doubt he could spell his own name.
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SOS warned the President and the Admissions folks a few years ago not to mess with him or he would take his golf clubs and go home. They backed off back then and they will cave now…..watch all the academic ground made up for these “student-athletes” in the next few weeks. And the local SC newspapers better not report on this or Spurrier will fire some reporters. I wish Carvell worked for The State paper.
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Harris Pastides signals receptionist to send his resume to five places
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All in all, a nice cheery bit of news to start my Friday. Tee hee.
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That’s the great thing about playing South Carolina early….
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Karma.
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I believe that one is already taken
http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/wisconsin-badgers-fans-tweet-karma-jen-bielema-coach-wife-arkansas-razorbacks-loss-rutgers-092213
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Bwahahaha…
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“Ray, Steve….so how’d you deal with not being able to get kids in school?”
“Good ta heah from ya Stevie…cain’t get em in school ovah theah
huh?..well I’ll tell ya whut ah did…I got beat by teams that cud gettem in.”
“Gosh Ray, I was afraid you were gonna say that…how is the used lumber business?”
“Ahhh man, the used lumber binness is jest great…ain’t no problem gittin them boards in the saw down here, if you know whut I mean…”
“Ok, Ray, gotta go, gotta early tee time, playin the admissions director over at Augusta National this afternoon.”
“See ya Steve, good ta heah from ya…golf didn’t do me much good, but hey…worth a shot to get buttah.”
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Lol, had me scratching my head for a minute…I was happy as hell you were acknowledging me but then I realized that being Friday my brain is not functioning at full capacity and I got it!!!
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I was like “huh…lumber bidness”…
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The loudest LOL for OBC. That’s karma for all his talk about UGA early season suspensions.
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Sorry. Didn’t see your comment before posting.
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Looks like USCe is acting like or pretending to be a high seat of learning here lately. LOL
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The fact that his Jr is most responsible is hysterical. Wonder if they are stocked up on Fing Scooters?
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This probably won’t hurt this year, but you’ll see the effects next year and the year after. That ends up being a very small class. Of course they will sign 33+ next year to try and make up for it, but the 33rd guy you sign rarely makes up for a four star loss. You will see the same kind of attrition in depth or leadership that has hurt us (and is miraculously avoided by certain tides) will hurt them. Maybe just one or two games, but it will be there. A few transfers, suspensions, or arrests in this class and things could get ugly.
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This is obviously Michael Adams’ fault.
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Isn’t Wesley Green one of the guys we were trying to flip around signing day? Damn, missed on him.
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I’m skeptical. I’m betting they get in. If not, they just need to go get arrested for something and Auburn will come calling.
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I’ve been talking with a USCe acquaintance I know who is very plugged in over there. None of this is a huge surprise to him.
He said their fans were told they’d only have room for about 16 signees this year and they took flyers on some guys who didn’t pan out; IOW, nothing to see here, move along, etc.
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Correct.
Selective disciplinary action, selective academic casualties, selective medical redshirts, and selective transfers are all tools used in the oversigning process.
It stinks for those individuals who are processed, but this news should surprise nobody. Expect to hear a similar announcement out of Knoxville soon.
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This is to cover up oversigning (possibly to free space for 2015 signees) and is business as usual in Columbia now.
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If a kid could prove that, he should be able to get rich.
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On USC’s academic pedigree, this seemed fitting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3lgt3dmSDs
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Is it true that they misspelled ACT & SAT on their applications?
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If you can’t get into South Carolina, what’s left?
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Clemson
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Zing!
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Or Auburn.
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Kirk Herbstreit……”Mark Richt is having his kindness mistaken for weakness”
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Nick marshall just got nicked in south ga.
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