What is one SC game you didnt attend but wish you had?

[CCUIrmo]

Just a bit of relief from all other talk on here, but what is one Carolina (home) game of any sport you were not able to attend but wish you had due to how it turned out?

My personal one would have been the football game against Georgia several years back under Spurrier when Sanders returned the punt for a TD. I have been told it was loudest stadium ever was. Last seasons thumping of Tenn would have been good since last time I saw a Carolina/Tenn game was when I took a good friend who was TENN fan to the game where we blew like a 17 point 4th qt lead with just a few minutes to go. That was long ride home that night.

 

[RUMMENIGGE]

2022 South Carolina 62 Tennessee 38 game.

 

[RUMMENIGGE]

At Hawaii 1977 and 1981

 

[18IsTheMan]

I'll go the other way with it. In 1999, I lived in Chattanooga, TN. I'm a Yankees fan and the Yankees were playing the Braves in the World Series that year. Game 1 was 10/23, in Atlanta. I had an opportunity to get a ticket, but I, for some reason I'll never comprehend, chose instead to attend the USC/Vandy game in Columbia. The Yankees cruised to win, allowing a single run on 2 hits. USC lost 11-10 to Vandy in one of the most depressing games I've ever been to. We were already 0-7 by the Vandy game, so I have no idea what was going through my mind. Add to it, I had to drive THROUGH Atlanta to get to Columbia. All-in-all, what a waste.

 

[LonghornsGamecocks]

UGA @ SC 2012. Best 60 mins of football ever played by the Gamecocks.

 

[LonghornsGamecocks]

I'll go the other way with it. In 1999, I lived in Chattanooga, TN. I'm a Yankees fan and the Yankees were playing the Braves in the World Series that year. Game 1 was 10/23, in Atlanta. I had an opportunity to get a ticket, but I, for some reason I'll never comprehend, chose instead to attend the USC/Vandy game in Columbia. The Yankees cruised to win, allowing a single run on 2 hits. USC lost 11-10 to Vandy in one of the most depressing games I've ever been to. We were already 0-7 by the Vandy game, so I have no idea what was going through my mind. Add to it, I had to drive THROUGH Atlanta to get to Columbia. All-in-all, what a waste.

I was at that game. It was cold AF too.

 

[DrMickeySC]

I’ll go two. Sorry, can’t follow instructions

Georgia 2012. That was amazing football.

Omaha vs Florida, not the final game, but the game where Florida had bases loaded no outs TWICE and didn’t score and we won in extra innings. So amazing.

 

[Legalsizecock]

Friends called me from Omaha after we knocked off UCLA, screaming their lungs out in excitement, and while I joined in, it was from my couch, not Rosenblatt.
I had told them I couldn't go with them due to work conflicts. Stupid, stupid move putting work ahead of the Cocks. Lesson learned (somewhat).

 

[31 Flavors]

Gamecocks' performance in defining football games I attended was so abysmal that I think I must be a jinx. Lest you think I'm overstating it, I was at the Gator Bowl vs LSU, then, in 1988, I saw firsthand the Georgia Tech and FSU debacles, and waited till the next year to go see them again--vs. Clemson at WB. Total combined score of those slaughters was (calls up calculator app) 172-13. Note, these were the only games I attended in that span. So I'm glad I haven't been at an important game since.

I'm better with MBB. I was at the Coliseum in 1997 when they won the first of two that year vs Kentucky, and at the Pepsi tournament in 1990 when they beat UNC in their first meeting in 18 years. Wish I'd been at the Duke game in 2017.

 

[Uscg1984]

Omaha vs Florida, not the final game, but the game where Florida had bases loaded no outs TWICE and didn’t score and we won in extra innings. So amazing.

This was the first one I thought of as well. Then, I thought maybe it would have been the prior year when we beat UCLA to win our first national championship in a major sport.

But I do think that Florida game might have been the best defensive performance by a college team in a championship game/series ever. It was incredible. When I think about teams that refuse to die, I always think of that team.

 

[Sweetwatergolf]

I’ll go two. Sorry, can’t follow instructions

Georgia 2012. That was amazing football.

Omaha vs Florida, not the final game, but the game where Florida had bases loaded no outs TWICE and didn’t score and we won in extra innings. So amazing.

I was at that Omaha series, the game you mentioned was great. Probably best college baseball game I've attended.

 

[Spinal Tap]

This one. Our first time playing them and at their place. Take that Bo!

Sept. 27, 1980: South Carolina 17, No. 17 Michigan 14.​

The first meeting between the two programs was supposed to be an easy win for the Wolverines, who were playing at home — but that's not how things went for Bo Schembechler's squad.
Michigan took a 14-3 lead into halftime, but turnovers, a failed fake punt and a questionable decision to go for a go-ahead touchdown instead of tying the game late with a field goal doomed U-M. South Carolina running back George Rogers ran all over the Wolverines, totaling 142 yards on 36 carries. He would go on to win the Heisman Trophy that year.
The loss dropped Michigan to 1-2 on the season — and would be the team's final loss of the season.

 

[atl-cock]

I didn't have the opportunity to go, but the first year that the Coliseum was open, my dad went to the UnCarolina game. I got to go to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus at the Coliseum. <SIGH>

We did lose the game, but even the then 9-year-old me felt the excitement.

 

[will110]

Football
2012 Georgia. My brother was at the game with a few high school classmates and high school band director as guests of the Carolina Band, which is what made him to decide to go to Carolina. His decision made me decide to transfer to Carolina from USC Aiken. Two degrees later, the rest is history. I would have loved to have been in the stadium that night though. For what it's worth we were both Georgia fans at the time.

Basketball
2017 Duke

 

[ScWildthing61]

I'll let the younger ones have the more recent moments, for me, I wish I could've seen the men's basketball team become the first visitor to go into Rupp Arena in Lexington Kentucky in March 1997, and beat Kentucky in that building on their senior day. It was Kentucky's first senior day loss since 1964, over a decade before Rupp Arena was even built. We won the SEC regular season title that day finishing 15-1 in the conference, completing a season sweep of Kentucky( back when that meant something), winning a game no "experts" gave us a snowballs C.I.H. of winning, having Rick Pitino get tossed out at the end of what ended up being his final home game at Kentucky, just too many good things in one game to pass up!

 

[CockofEarle…]

Just a bit of relief from all other talk on here, but what is one Carolina (home) game of any sport you were not able to attend but wish you had due to how it turned out?

My personal one would have been the football game against Georgia several years back under Spurrier when Sanders returned the punt for a TD. I have been told it was loudest stadium ever was. Last seasons thumping of Tenn would have been good since last time I saw a Carolina/Tenn game was when I took a good friend who was TENN fan to the game where we blew like a 17 point 4th qt lead with just a few minutes to go. That was long ride home that night.

CCU, commits fax pas, don’t you mean a game you wish you didn’t attend?

 

[atl-cock]

CCU, commits fax pas, don’t you mean a game you wish you didn’t attend?

Start a new thred.

 

[Irvin Snibbley]

I say this for those who weren’t there and may not realize what a great night it was,but the game against Clemson up there when Dylan Thompson started for Connor Shaw was likely the most fun I ever had at a Carolina game.Beat a very good Clemson team with Watkins and Hopkins and Taj Boyd.Clowney ate them up.Always great to win a big game in the other guys stadium.Anyway my fav.

 

[ThinnyJ]

Georgia game where we stomped them out and ran the punt back. My brother said people were nearly going deaf that game.