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Jul201028

joeperson

15

Bowl loss still irks Spurrier

Steve Spurrier still isn’t over the Papajohns.com Bowl. If you thought six months would be sufficient for Spurrier to get over his team’s lackluster 20-7 loss to UConn in Birmingham, think again. “Sometimes I’m asked, ticket sales are not quite where we hoped they would be. Well, I say, ‘Our fans remember the UConn game. [...]

Jul201022

joeperson

9

Early praise for Lattimore

South Carolina's Patrick DiMarco speaks at SEC Media Days HOOVER, Ala. – Steve Spurrier wasn’t able to say much about freshman tailback Marcus Lattimore because he’s not been allowed to watch him in the voluntary summer workouts, which are off-limits to coaches. But someone who has attended the 7-on-7 passing drills said the Parade All-American [...]

Jul201022

joeperson

1

SEC Media Days, Spurrier edition

South Carolina's Steve Spurrier speaks at SEC Media Days HOOVER, Ala. – A few nuggets from Steve Spurrier’s first few stops at SEC Media Days (coaches are shuttled from various meeting rooms to take questions from radio/Internet reporters, TV, print, etc.): –Spurrier confirmed that reserve offensive lineman Nick Allison has left the team to get [...]

Jul201021

joeperson

1

SEC Media Days, Round 1

HOOVER, Ala. – With several SEC teams ensnared in the sweeping NCAA investigation involving players and athletes, the topic quickly became the prevailing storyline at the SEC Media Days at the Wynfrey Hotel. Expect two more days of it. SEC commissioner Mike Slive opened Media Days by calling for a re-examination of the NCAA rules [...]

Jul201018

joeperson

33

More on Saunders and NCAA probe

There is still a lot that needs to shake out on the Weslye Saunders’ investigation before we get a clearer picture of what this might mean to the South Carolina football program. But for those posters to gogamecocks.com or bloggers elsewhere suggesting that the NCAA only wanted to talk to Saunders about his friend, Marvin [...]

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