Tennessee's spring football practices begin today, but it's really hard to imagine how Lane Kiffin's tenure as head coach could get any more entertaining than it's been so far. (Fingers crossed!) The guy has already stuffed a career's worth of crazy into just one offseason—and these are just t...

2009 Season Rides on Surgically Repaired Arms The college baseball season starts in less than one week. The Gamecock fans are particularly excited about the upcoming baseball season. The Gamecocks will be playing in a brand new, beautiful stadium in 2009. Fans, players and coaches are raving about t...

"sideways hats, chains, earrings and gym shorts" The Iowa Hawkeyes most valuable player on defense, Mitch King, does not think too much of the South Carolina Gamecocks. An article in the Iowa Gazette newspaper website reports on King's pre-game tirade down in Tampa. “We walked into the luncheon fo...

ESPN Tout Todd McShay Thinks The Gamecocks Stink Watch McShay's film embedded below. His preview of South Carolina shows interceptions and sacks, and the hit on Garcia by a referee from the LSU game. He also says that Spurrier has lost the team, and predicts that Norwood and Munnerlyn, and the other...

Efficient Garcia--Key to Gamecock Win In an earlier Blog post--using graphs and the 2008 season statistics--we analyzed statistics about the Iowa rushing game. Clearly, Iowa has a fine offense, and an excellent rushing game. This post looks at more graphs. This time we focus on the 2008 defensive st...

Big Ten Tout Calls Spurrier's Offense "Inept " The Big Ten media continues to give South Carolina very little chance of beating the 8-4 Iowa Hawkeyes. The staff writer Matt Baxendell of College Sports-Fans.com predicts a fourteen point Iowa victory: "The Outback Bowl features two teams going in dram...

Gamecocks With "Very Few Playmakers" From what I have seen, the Iowa fans seem to be a very polite group. However, they are also very confident their team will achieve in a victory over the Gamecocks on New Years Day. An anonymous Iowa fan posted the following comment which was copied and posted on ...

The Media Believes Team Dispirited Will Harris, an ESPN tout, thinks the Gamecocks have very little chance against the Big Ten's Iowa Hawkeyes. Check out his prediction. The second-highest-scoring team in the Big Ten, Iowa pounds the ball with Doak Walker winner Shonn Greene and an offensive line th...

A Statistical Comparison The Gamecocks play Iowa on New Years Day in the Outback Bowl. This post looks at the national rankings of the two teams. Both teams have excellent defenses, and looking at defensive graphs does not reveal a lot. However, there are some disparities in the offensive production...

Despite two straight blowout losses, in a recent article posted on an NBC site the Gamecocks look like they may be selected for either the Outback Bowl or the Peach Bowl. The NBC projections are quoted below. Outback BowlJan. 1, 2009At Tampa, Fla.Iowa (Big Ten) vs. SouthCarolina (SEC) The Hawkeyes c...