RoyalAir

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Atlanta is objectively the worst metro area in all of the United States.

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This cannot be true.

Houston *and* Dallas exist.

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Might actually be beneficial for us in a way. They are a big fish in a small pond, currently. I don't see why the SEC would add them though. What do they bring that's new?

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This is me. I mean, I hate Clemson and want bad things for them, always. But we play them every year regardless. If they are a conference game, the 9 game SEC schedule doesn't impact us at all.

UNC is a poor addition because they don't make any sense culturally. I get the flagship arguments, but NC State is a better fit for the conference for a host of reasons. No matter what, UNC or NC State are outposts.

I agree with some of the sentiment in this thread. If UNC is added, they're immediately our No.2 rival. There's a true hatred for those asshats.

My preference, if ACC expansion absolutely has to happen, is FSU and VaTech. But I think that's the longest shot.

Keanu Reeves is just about perfect for SC.

Likely will receive some kind of lifetime achievement award for being likable and fun, but never actually win a big award.

No other athletic department in the country is as poorly run, but has the fan support we do.

It's an abomination.

Franklin, for one, had already been in-conference, and wouldn't have been appealing to anyone other than USC or UK. Neither were open when he was finalizing with VaTech.

OK State is always going to have ties to Texas, and only Arkansas would have been a fit there. Not sure he was ever in play for the Hogs, and I'm not sure if that was on him or Arky.

Chesney is the wildcard. UCLA isn't a good job. I figured he would have stayed at JMU for another year and see how the 26 openings went.


But to answer your original question, it's a pressure cooker. Some guys thrive on that and chase it down. Others would prefer a relatively easier path.

Sneaky good hire. Mora was rock solid at UConn, and was pretty darn good at UCLA - certainly the best that they've had in a long time.

Colorado State is a really tough job. Surprised Mora didn't hang for a better gig.

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The man almost beat Alabama and A&M on the road with half the talent.

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Tf with this "half the talent" BS.

This has been documented, ad infinitum, on these boards. SC has underperformed considering the talent on the roster. It's mismanaged, buried in depth charts (RB, specifically). It's talent that has kept SC in games, and coaching that has lost it, not the inverse.

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The only people who seem to think Ray Tanner is horrible are a handful of South Carolina fans. Most people don’t even realize he was South Carolina’s AD.

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This is a long-winded way of saying, "I know nothing about the rest of the conference."

Tanner was handed Spurrier, Staley, Frank Martin, and a back-to-back NC baseball program.

In ten years, he royally fricked up the football replacement for Spurrier, by publicly getting rebuffed by Tom Herman. Then, while he's negotiating at Kirby Smart's house, he gets rugpulled by UGa. Tanner roams around, publicly interviewing and flirting with Wille Taggart and Rich Rodriguez before hiring Muschamp, who was a single year removed from being a dismal failure at UF. After Muschamp failed (and insulted the program in the interim), Tanner hires Beamer, without really looking at anyone else.

Staley, thankfully, has stayed.

Martin takes SC to the Final Four, a year after being the first team in SEC history to win 20+ games and getting snubbed from the tourney. Tanner was partially responsible for that snub, because he had no ability to lobby power. Instead, Vandy went to the tournament that year, with a literal 500 record. When Martin does get SC on the map, Tanner shits all over it by bungling the ceremonies so poorly that Martin complains in the press about a lack of institutional support (and he wasn't wrong). Enter Paris, who wasn't nearly ready for a job of this size after only 3 years at UTC. Last year's SC team was almost winless in conference (despite having an NBA lottery pick), and this year's team looks worse.

Finally, Tanner took a program that was rhe jewel of the AD in baseball, and through three head coaches has driven it into the dirt so dadgum far that I'm not sure it ever recovers.

Tanner is the worst AD, overall, in the history of the SEC, and I'm not sure it's close.

Their campus is close enough to Georgia that we can pretend they're not in SC.

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Our mediocre program led by Billy Napier was 2-0 against Beamer

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Another blown 4th quarter lead by Beamer.

One of those games was a Carolina blowout.

Until it wasn't.