So, we were the GA JUCO game of the week. It was a phenomenal game. Click on the link below and at least watch go to the parts in the game listed under the description. They include a play with a back screen to their center who catches a lob and then throws a lob to the PF who just got a back screen. Double alley!! Are you kidding me? And that is only the second best play. Because some white kid takes off from nearly the FT line and dunks all over our PG!! Thankfully we won, so I can talk about these things nostalgically.
http://www.ihigh.com/georgiajucoreport/broadcast_191908.html?silverlight=1
As I told my buddy, "These JUCO kids are going to put me in an early grave!" With five minutes to go we led 58 to 54. We obviously are guarding pretty well, so if we just score another six points down the stretch we probably hold on. Other than a FT with 0.7 left, we go on to score only two more points and have as many turnovers as Romney and Gingrich have combined flip-flops. The last minute went like this.
US - Turnover
Them - Phenomenal white kid dunk and foul
US - No box out and they get O reb
Them - drive and foul - miss one of two
Us - Missed front end of one and one
Them - missed shot, off reb, missed shot
Us - Reb and turnover
Them - missed three in corner
Yes, they had three shots to take the lead and we had eight billion chances to seal the win. It was gut-wrenching.
As for Clemson........
Still not real thrilled about Saturday, but at least a little better than I felt on Sunday. Kids are resilient. They may bounce back. I feel like Va Tech will definitely score on the Tigers. Their QB is better and Wilson is a great RB. Clemson's defense has made average RBs look great so I don't even know a word for how good they can make Wilson. Will the offense move the ball like weeks 1-7 or weeks 8-12.
My heart says Clemson 31 Tech 27
My gut says Tech 27 Clemson 17
so I will split the difference and say Tech 27 Clemson 24
How about ol' Dabo spewing off out the mouth after a comment from Spurrier (which apparently wasn't even him, but was the USuC radio announcer). The initial comment was, "We ain't LSU or Alabama but we ain't Clemson either."
Dabo went off:
“He’s right. They aren’t Clemson. No three-game winning streak is going to change that,” he said. “It’s not the first they have won three in a row and it will not be the last time. It might be 50 more years but it will probably happen again. But I have gone out of my way to be complimentary to them and complimentary to coach Spurrier. I got a lot of respect for coach Spurrier, but I am going to defend my program . I’m going to defend my players and my coaches. I am going to defend Clemson University because I believe in it. I think he is exactly right - they are not Clemson and never will be. You are looking at the best era in the history of South Carolina football right now. They just had their second 10-win season. They won a championship in 1969 and the 2010 SEC East. And this rivalry – there is a lot of rivalries out there but this is more of a domination and that’s a fact. My kids’ grandkids won’t live long enough to see this really become a rivalry.”
“I have respect for their program, but South Carolina is not Clemson,” he said. “There are a lot of differences. This is a place that has won a national title, 17 conference championships and two division titles. Heck, we have won more bowl games than they have even been to. I think our program has 100 plus more wins than South Carolina. That is reality. This is the best era in 115 years of South Carolina football is right now and they have done a great job.”
“Coach Spurrier has been there for seven years, but after five years I think he had 35 wins and got a new contract and all that kind of stuff. After five years at Clemson, if I have only got 35 wins there is going to be a new coach here and you know what there should be because there is a different standard. He is exactly right – they ain’t Alabama, they ain’t LSU and they certainly are not Clemson. That is why Carolina is in Chapel Hill, USC is in California and the university in this state always has been and always will be Clemson. It’s right here in Clemson, SC. You can print that. Tweet that.”
Is Dabo really going to rail on USC having an awful tradition? You just helped them have the best three seasons in their history by taking it in the butt the last three years. That makes it even more embarrassing that a program that couldn’t find success with a gps system is now kicking your butt. It WAS a domination. Maybe it will stay that way in the future, but it sure doesn’t look like it.
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