Spurrier visits Arnette

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Spurrier visits Arnette

Jan. 20, 2015

South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier along with defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward and secondary coach Grady Brown conducted an in home visit with Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) St. Thomas Aquinas three-star cornerback Damon Arnette and his family on Monday afternoon. According to sources Arnette reaffirmed his Gamecock commitment during the meeting and things went very well from both sides' perspectives.

Arnette took and official visit to Michigan over the weekend and is set to visit South Carolina this weekend. He will head to Ohio State on the final weekend before signing day. Certainly South Carolina is in no position to relax on Arnette but I'm told the staff is comfortable with its current position after today's in home and the fact that they will host Arnette this weekend.

 

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Again, instead of recruiting new players for the 2016 class we are out begging and pleading with people who already supposedly committed to us. Why are we begging these guys to commit at all cost by letting them continue the recruiting process after the supposed commitment? We should be telling these guys not to commit unless they are 100% certain what they want to do and are willing to remove themselves from the recruiting process. We're paying Spurrier $4 million a year to go around begging guys who already committed to honor their commitments?

This is only the beginning, too. The proper thing for Spurrier to have done was resign after he made the two or three years comment. This noise about his retirement without any kind of succession plan is going to hurt us more and more. We would be so much better off with a vibrant enthusiastic younger head coach and staff than with this old geezer going around on the defensive always trying to explain himself. 

What a pathetic joke we have around here. I dare say how apparent it is to everybody that Ray Tanner is nowhere near being in charge of this Athletics Department. Otherwise, why would he sit there and watch all the recent success slip back through our hands?

Sorry to be so dour but this scenario has repeated itself ad nauseum for about the last 100 years and is the reason we have mostly sucked in everything. Our Board of Trustees is unaccountable. We needed an Athletics Director and they hired a baseball coach. And I like Tanner, I really do, but can anyone show me where he has demonstrated any authoritative leadership and direction in this crucial matter?