A direct quote from the article for the most part, though I have taken some editorial liberties (depicted in parentheses) to edit out references to another program:
All that chirping you hear coming from South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier can only mean one thing: He’s convinced his team is pretty good.
The Head Ball Coach has never really lacked confidence, but the more digs he takes, the more he likes what he has on the field. And that means good things for the Gamecocks.
Steve Spurrier led the Gamecocks to their first-ever 11-win season in 2011 and his team looks poised to make an SEC title run in 2012.Two years removed from taking South Carolina to its first-ever SEC championship game, Spurrier will enter the 2012 season with a team poised to make yet another SEC title run, as the Gamecocks continue to trend upward in the conference.
(The) program (has) dealt with inconsistency in the past (has) now become (a) legitimate contender in the nation’s toughest league. Not just for now but the future.
Before Spurrier arrived in Columbia, S.C., the Gamecocks were hardly intimidating. There were some ups under former coach Lou Holtz, but Spurrier has truly made this program respectable. While he hasn’t seen the immediate success he did when he took over Florida’s program in the early 1990s,
South Carolina has made a tremendous turnaround under his watch.
The program that lost 18 straight SEC games from 1997-99 has won no fewer than three conference games in Spurrier’s seven years at South Carolina, has had an SEC title trip and its first 11-win season in program history.
A lot of that success has come from keeping most of the top in-state talent home, which historically wasn’t the case. It started with Alshon Jeffery and Stephon Gilmore in 2009 and continued with Marcus Lattimore, Jadeveon Clowney, and now Shaq Roland.
The past wasn’t great (this) program, but in recent years, South Carolina (has) thrown themselves right in the middle of the SEC conversation and (is) looking to stay there for the foreseeable future.
http://espn.go.com/blog/sec/post/_/id/44802/gamecocks-and-hogs-trending-up-in-sec
All that chirping you hear coming from South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier can only mean one thing: He’s convinced his team is pretty good.
The Head Ball Coach has never really lacked confidence, but the more digs he takes, the more he likes what he has on the field. And that means good things for the Gamecocks.
Steve Spurrier led the Gamecocks to their first-ever 11-win season in 2011 and his team looks poised to make an SEC title run in 2012.Two years removed from taking South Carolina to its first-ever SEC championship game, Spurrier will enter the 2012 season with a team poised to make yet another SEC title run, as the Gamecocks continue to trend upward in the conference.
(The) program (has) dealt with inconsistency in the past (has) now become (a) legitimate contender in the nation’s toughest league. Not just for now but the future.
Before Spurrier arrived in Columbia, S.C., the Gamecocks were hardly intimidating. There were some ups under former coach Lou Holtz, but Spurrier has truly made this program respectable. While he hasn’t seen the immediate success he did when he took over Florida’s program in the early 1990s,
South Carolina has made a tremendous turnaround under his watch.
The program that lost 18 straight SEC games from 1997-99 has won no fewer than three conference games in Spurrier’s seven years at South Carolina, has had an SEC title trip and its first 11-win season in program history.
A lot of that success has come from keeping most of the top in-state talent home, which historically wasn’t the case. It started with Alshon Jeffery and Stephon Gilmore in 2009 and continued with Marcus Lattimore, Jadeveon Clowney, and now Shaq Roland.
The past wasn’t great (this) program, but in recent years, South Carolina (has) thrown themselves right in the middle of the SEC conversation and (is) looking to stay there for the foreseeable future.
http://espn.go.com/blog/sec/post/_/id/44802/gamecocks-and-hogs-trending-up-in-sec
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