You can't have it both ways... and I don't want to be them.

Nov 26, 2012, 5:11 PM

I have watched this board in full meltdown mode for two days. We are beginning to look like Gamecock fans.

I am a season ticket holder and have donated enough money to IPTAY to have four tickets on the 40 yd line/lower level and a parking space next to the stadium... so alot of money in the mix. I AM NOT happy about losing to Carolina once, much less four freakin' times. That said... here is my take.

I don't want to be South Carolina. Not now. Not ever.

If that means recruiting kids that meet our academic standards for athletes (Clowney did not and wouldn't have been admitted) and not seeing classless buffoons like Swearinger, Clowney, Hampton, Roland and a legion of others in Orange and White, I will take 10-2 in the ACC Dabo's way.

Many of you love to reference the '81 National Championship, but have conveniently forgotten that for several years or even DECADES after that, we were known as cheaters who didn't deserve that win. We love to wave our signed Perry Tuttle Sports Illustrated around, but have we thrown out the reams of newspaper articles about our probation? We were a "football factory". We were a laughing stock. We were what South Carolina is now. A classless operation that no one respected. Ask other SEC fans what they think of South Carolina. Ask them... they make fun of them. Constantly. Is that who you want to be?

No matter who our coach is, South Carolina won't win forever. We will beat them. Auburn beat Alabama for SEVEN consecutive years... who remembers that now? Auburn went the South Carolina route and brought in thugs like Fairley and Newton for a quick fix of respectability and now their coach has been fired and they are under NCAA investigation. How long ago does that 2010 National Championship seem like to Auburn? It seems like 20 years ago.

Get mad... demand more... don't stand for less!!!! I am with you! Until you start screaming "FIRE DABO". Then you are an idiot in my eyes.

We are 10-2 with two losses to teams that were both ranked 3rd at one time this year and remain in the Top Ten. These two teams both had elite defenses. One of them - Carolina - features a trancendent talent in Clowney the likes of which may not be seen around here in quite awhile. He is Carolina's Cam Newton.

Dabo is doing this right. We are closing the gap on Carolina and FSU. We lost to Carolina by 10 and dropped 37 pts on FSU's vaunted defense in THEIR house. Our players graduate. We recruit very well. We are known as a classy program. We have a championship trophy in our case that doesn't date from the 50's.

We WILL beat Carolina. This is the best run for this program in 100 years and they still don't have a championship to show for it. Goody for them.

Clemson people are mad and they SHOULD be. But be mad at Carolina. They have thrown what little class and integrity they have away and it shows on the field. They look like the Miami Hurricanes of the past and the act is getting old. They are an embarrassment to the state.

Don't turn on our players... our coach or our school.

I will close with this...

Carolina... Enjoy this. You have first rate athletic talent and a top notch coach. You also have a coach who is the biggest jerk in college football. So bad his alma mater ran him off. Your talent is great but many of them couldn't get in Clemson. We don't admit that many Partial Qualifiers. You have your fun now... but understand that it WILL be short lived. The more years the streak goes on, the sweeter it will be when we beat that ###... and you can bet we will... and soon.

When Spurrier retires, call Gene Chizik. I hear he is available. Maybe you can get some convicted felons like Newton and Fairley to play for you too. Just make sure you lock up your laptops... again.

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You can't have it both ways... and I don't want to be them.

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