Top 5 Gamecock QB

[GCF Staff Support]

You're probably gonna think some of these picks are crazy but statistically...

1. Steve Tanneyhill - Taneyhill had a great career at South Carolina. His 62 TDs to 37 INTs are excellent, as are his 8,782 passing yards.

2. Anthony Wright - The only QB on this list with a fairly respectable NFL career, Anthony Wright deserves the No. 2 spot. He threw for 38 TDs and only 22 INTs in his career. He passed for 5,681 yards through the air.

3. Todd Ellis - The "voice of the Gamecocks" certainly has his place in South Carolina history as one of the winningest quarterbacks to play. But his 73 interceptions to 49 TDs drops him on my list. His 9,953 yards is well above the No. 2 passer on the all time list.

4. Bobby Fuller - Bobby Fuller proved to be a great quarterback for the Gamecocks. 28 TDs to 17 INTs with 4,896 yards is enough to move him into fourth place on my list.

5. Phil Petty - Petty had a very nice closing to his South Carolina career with back-to-back Outback Bowl victories over Ohio State. His career numbers are not gaudy (28 TDs, 29 INTs, with 5,652 yards), but he will always be remembered for his leadership

 

[FeatheredCock]

You're list is great if this was July of 2003 and not 2013. Blake Mitchell was better than Fuller, Wright, and Petty. Garcia was better than all of them except Taneyhill. Shaw has supplanted Ellis, Fuller, Petty, and Wright. Here is the top 5 of all time as it stands today:

1. Taneyhill (Give him the talent we have on the team today and the best 5 years and can you imagine?)
2. Garcia (too many big wins, a lot of "other" issues of course, but if you're just talking on the field, he's #2 for the time being)
3. Shaw (One more big season with marquee wins and he shoots to number 1, if you ask me, as long as he plays at least half of this coming season healthy, he finishes ahead of Garcia easy, I'm guessing if we win 10 games, we'll view him as our best ever, he has 17 wins and the record is 24 with Ellis, so he'll finish up as the all-time best in wins as well)
4. Petty (Grit and a winner, I know it's sacrosanct with you old-timers that love Ellis, but he didn't LOSE games with turnovers.
5. Mitchell, kicked started the Spurrier era and had some big wins, he was inconsistent BUT when he was on, he looked like a 90s era Spurrier QB. He quietly finished his gamecock career with a good many 275+ yard games and had more TDs than INTs, had a bowl win, beat clemson, beat Florida, beat Georgia, and beat Tennessee.

I do not apologize for leaving Ellis off. I know some of you are almost as in love with him as he is with himself but he has 72 career INTs, Timmy Chang who had like 1000 more pass attempts (not true but did have A LOT more pass attempts than Ellis) has the NCAA record with 73, think he got it in 2004, so for 15 years Todd Ellis had the national all-time record and at least Chang threw for over 110 TDs and finished with more TDs than INTs. I know ppl say it's b/c it was the run'n'shoot, but Timmy Chang ran that at Hawaii and still finished in positive territory. I am biased though, I don't care for lawyers or people who run pyramid schemes.

 

[Superman]

Good tops guys, i would combine both and make a top 9 or so.