re: Why does everyone think South Carolina is a good job?

This thread is amusing.

Only a bunch of South Carolina fans or SEC homers could call South Carolina a better job than Virginia Tech.

-Virginia Tech has as good or better facilities when you factor in that their stadium isn't off campus in a concrete shithole (ask Miami how difficult it is to sell an off campus stadium).

-Virginia Tech has less competition nearby for recruits than South Carolina.

-Virginia Tech isn't second fiddle to another program instate.

-But more than anything Virginia Tech is sooooo much easier because it's in the Coastal. Only a brain dead Neanderthal wouldn't factor this in. It's huge when you're competing against UNC and Duke instead of Florida, Georgia and Tennessee.

Also, do South Carolina fans really think Tanner is some college sports diety? The dude was an incredible baseball coach, but it's fvcking baseball. The majority of the nation doesn't even know who the fvck he is. Do yal think coaches were just bangin down the door of LSU when Skip fvcking Bertman was there? No, he's a damn former baseball coach and no one gave a frick. Not a single candidate mentioned how awesome it would be to work for Skip when Miles was hired and I know because I lived in Louisiana at the time.

Lastly, Idk why (I suspect it has something to do with the lack of a great gameday atmosphere with no on campus stadium), but South Carolina's brand is basically nothing out of the state. You saw the last couple of years what happened when they didn't have all-world talent right in their backyard. Sure they didn't have the most energetic recruiting staff, but even when they were signing the Clowney's, Lattimore's, Gilmore's, etc of the world, they were all instate. South Carolina has next to no reach out of the state for elite blue chip recruits.

The first thing the new coach needs to do is broaden their recruiting reach and improve their brand. The state of South Carolina doesn't consistently produce enough talent to sustain two programs. South Carolina hit the jackpot instate a couple years in a row and turned that into some phenomenal seasons, but they never really used that momentum to build their brand and recruiting territory. I would be all over North Carolina from the get-go if I was the new coach. Georgia and Florida are littered with sharks, but they could build a nice nitch in North Carolina and then spread from there.

South Carolina is def a good job overall. One of the absolute pluses they have is a fairly realistic fanbase that will be patient (similar to Virginia Tech). They're absolutely better than Maryland. I don't care how much you try to spin money from Under Armor, that campus is an absolute shithole and no one there gives a fvck about football. You can't manufacture a fanbase's loyalty. South Carolina has it for football, Maryland never will.

Right now I'd put the jobs:

1 - Southern Cal
2 - Virginia Tech
3 - South Carolina
4 - Miami (most overrated job)

Georgia would be slotted above Southern Cal if they joined the ranks.