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Miami's is 30 minutes away from campus. USC's is under 3 miles. There are off campus student housing complexes much further down Bluff and Shop road.

Agree that it's closer, but on Gameday it took us about 30-45 minutes with traffic to get from my sis's (no pics) house (she lived somewhere near campus) to the stadium. It wasn't painful, we were n the back of a pickup drinking beers, but it was still a bit of a hike.

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And the university has invested a lot of money in improving the area around the stadium. If you go to the game this war you would not walk away saying its a concrete shithole.

Fair enough. Last time I went was 2011 I believe. We tailgated in some abandoned parking lot with barbed wire around it. Needless to say I wasn't impressed.

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I agree with you on recruiting except that the lack of brand is not due to poor Gameday atmosphere and find it hilarious you would say that. Obviously you've never been to a game at Williams-Brice and are just recycling the shite you have seen the knuckling dragging idiots post in tigernet.

Games at WBS are a blast, no doubting that. I was mainly talking about the pre game stuff that I alluded to earlier, but it sounds like yal have already starting to address that.

What do you think the reason for the lack of recruiting territory or brand growth? Not a flame, just curious what you'd give as a reason. I was actually pleasantly surprised with Columbia itself when I visited. It seems like it would be easier to sell.

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Posted by Cockopotamus

Member since Jan 2013

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Posted on 11/8/15 at 4:18 pm to FootballNostradamus

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What do you think the reason for the lack of recruiting territory or brand growth?

After the 2011 recruiting class our recruiting coordinator Shane Beamer left to coach with his dad at Virginia Tech. Jay Graham, our running backs coach and excellent recruiter was lined up to take over but Spurrier at the last minute gave the job to his son. So Graham leaves to coach at Tennessee (his alma mater).

So we lose two of our best recruiters and our head coach that doesn't give a shite about recruiting appoints his son who doesn't know shite about recruiting and probably the same lackadaisical attitude towards it to be the coordinator.

Beamer had to get Alshon Jeffery approved for an offer by a defensive coach because Spurrier Jr. wouldn't approve him for an offer at WR for God's sake.

We also lost Ellis Johnson after the 2011 season and he was our guy in the Rock Hill area and Brad Lawing after the 2012 season and he was very good at getting guys from NC.

Under Spurrier JR. there was no roster management at all either. In 2013 we had to play with a LB core made up of freshmen. In 2014 we had to play with a CB core made up of freshmen and zero SEC level DEs, and in 2015 we are playing with Pharoh Cooper and a bunch of walkons and freshmen at WR.

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Posted by RoyalAir

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Member since Dec 2012

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Posted on 11/8/15 at 7:30 pm to FootballNostradamus

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What do you think the reason for the lack of recruiting territory or brand growth?

Laziness. Spurrier was too busy throwing jabs at Saban about how he didn't have to work as hard in order to have success. What he should have been doing is rolling that in-state momentum and expanded the brand of an aggresive, fierce defense and taken over the Carolinas. The ability was there to capitalize and and create a regional brand that would have seriously hurt Clemson and UTK.

But he didn't do it. His arrogance cost the program dearly.

The next coach has the ability to rebuild that momentum, but it will require effort. We'll have to recapture USC as the program of choice for SC kids, and grow from there. We saw that when Latt/Jeffrey/Clowney/Swearinger were here. It can happen again, but it will need an incredible effort. It's part of why I think Elliott, as an SC native who many high school coaches love, may be the best guy for the job.

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