I believe your reading too much into my comment.
The idea was that there was overreaction in week 1 AND in week 2.
To those of you….
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I believe your reading too much into my comment.
The idea was that there was overreaction in week 1 AND in week 2.
‘Fans’ who lash out like children who didn’t get the toy they wanted don’t know enough to be either right or wrong. The ‘fans’ he addressed derided and mocked; he’s just ‘clapping back’, isn't that the saying. To quote KW, those fans deserve every bit of calumny Beamer gave.
I think you hit the nail on the head with this. The flack was a direct result of the "next saviour" syndrome.
I will just say this. The LSU game is the kind of game I referred to before the season as being a barometer. That is the kind of team that if Beamer and the team beat, should provide hope for the future. Ole Miss beat them in Oxford last year. We can beat them in Columbia. Ole Miss, and Missouri for that matter, do not have head and shoulders more talent than we do. But they are Top 10 programs. Ole Miss is number 5. Missouri is number 6. They have not been bringing in Top 10 recruiting classes. What they have gotten is EXCEPTIONAL coaching from Drinkwitz and Kiffin. Beat LSU, then the future will be bright for Carolina football.
This kind of positive overreaction after wins is just as annoying as the negative overreaction after losses/ugly wins like ODU.
Did Beamer need to be fired after barely beating ODU? No.
Does Beamer need a lifetime contract after dominating Kentucky? No.
It's a long season. Let's hope the trend of the Kentucky game continues, but it was only one game. So far we've looked really bad once (ODU) and pretty good (UK). The rest of the season needs to play out here.
Why is there a difference between paid and free users? I’m here because I didn’t renew my paid membership.
He fumbled 3 times going through his progressions....so maybe run a little more until he learns to pay attention to edge rushers running right at him
It was definitely a fun game, particularly the 2nd half. However, as was noted by another poster, we got basically ALL the breaks in the game. Sellers coughed it up multiple times but we were fortunate to recover each time. One of them, when he was totally blindsided for sack/fumble, it was downright miraculous that we recovered b/c a UK player fell right on top of the ball. One of our OL was able to reach in and scoop the ball from him. There was another where the ball was knocked out of Sellers hand as he was about to throw and it just happened to land right in one of our players hands.
I'm not complaining about the good fortune. We've had plenty of breaks go against us over the years...feels like most of them have gone against us...and nobody has ever felt sorry for us. It was nice to see them go our way for once. However, that's not a winning game plan, week to week.
Definitely needs to work on ball security.
We dodged the bullet against UK, but against the better league teams we are getting ready to face, we won't be so fortunate.
It was a weird game from a fumble standpoint...Kentucky fumbled 4 times and Carolina fumbled 3 times, with none of those resulting in turnovers. How often can you have 7 total fumbles in a game with none of them lost?
Why are YOU ashamed? And don't you understand that this is a reactionary aspect of sports life, part of what makes fandom interesting and fun? Do you not understand that this is the way of the world and will be that way until time shall be no more?
Get over it, or better still, get over yourself, which is probably more needful.
So far, Beamer's job has been saved by a couple of very unlikely wins. The UK win could end up being another one of those, who knows? If things turn around and this ends up being an 8 or 9 win season then Beamer must be doing something right. On the other hand, if the UK win means we end up with 6 wins on the season I'm not sure that will really point to Beamer being a good coach. The schedule has 4 pretty well guaranteed wins built in. The UK win gets us to 5. Will one more win prove that Beamer is the guy to stick with?
I hope UK turns out to be a pretty good team. Otherwise, our win won't mean much more than beating another cupcake on the schedule.
I hope UK turns out to be a pretty good team. Otherwise, our win won't mean much more than beating another cupcake on the schedule.
I don't know why but there is a difference. Paid users seem to come here because their widdle feelings get hurt.
I think there’s lots of people who criticize every athletic Director we have ever had. Tanner gets criticized when we miss a free throw in basketball. It’s not emotional attachment. we have people on here screaming to fire someone the first time I go three and out. So it works both ways for the irrational segment of both sides.
Saban called out fans and reporters all the time. It’s not unusual.
PS: save yourself the “he is not Saban” retort. All coaches do it.
I'm a paid user and I come here because I enjoy the different conversations on the respective boards. I can say, though, that this forum is overall much more pessimistic and negative than the paid forum. There are plenty of negative posters on the paid forum, but not the majority like it seems here.
Only on the paid site apparently. When the game starts I pull for the Gamecocks on every play. That's pulling for the team. Coach worship no matter the results can actually be detrimental to the team.
No. He's a flamer. His typical approach is to reply to a post but insert his opinion about a bunch of things the post to which he's replying never even discussed.
So you enjoy coming to a forum that you feel is mostly negative?
Would you disagree with my characterization?
Anyway I like the different interactions, all in good fun (for me at least).
Hoping we win has nothing to do with love of coach. I will love a coach that wins.
I didn't think this forum was very negative after a big win. There were still some concerns that were discussed. Some people seem to consider having concerns to be negative. I thought it turned negative when the Beamer cult zombies showed up. It seemed organized. Several posts by different posters contained passages that were almost word for word.
When I respond to what someone has said, I respond to what they actually posted.
You do not. Either you're a flamer or your reading comprehension totally sucks. I'll let you choose which one.
Who doesn't love a coach that wins? Those that love the TEAM can become a little antsy after a season like last year. And after we were lucky to win at home to a cupcake it's not unreasonable to see our program as one starting to circle the drain. Yet after that game some were calling for Beamer to be coach for life. It's just my opinion that one of those positions is more unreasonable than the other.
Irrationally positive posters are just as annoying as irrationally negative posters, in my opinion. But there is a weird group of fans who think Beamer is the savior of Gamecock football merely because he "wants to be here." It, of course, has nothing to do with the fact that USC is paying him $6,000,000+ every year to coach football.
Yeah, for $6,000,000+ a year, I'd "want to be" pretty much anywhere.
He took some baby steps forward in the UK game, but has a long way to go. The tools are there. I suspect it will be an up down season for him with a fair dose of growing pains. Hopefully his overall trajectory is upward, though.
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