Archive for December, 2008

Beas Hamga update

Ah, the last blog post of 2008. It was a wonderful year, featuring three months of a coaching search, plenty of subsequent Darrin Horn stalking, some snide football posts that elicited angry e-mails, and plenty else. Don’t worry, this will not be a retrospective. We have neither the inclination or the time to do so. [...]

Vegas on USC-Clemson

This blog comes with the requisite disclaimer that we don’t endorse gambling, yada yada yada. But I thought this was interesting. The Las Vegas sportsbooks have Clemson as a 3-point favorite over South Carolina tonight. That apparently seems like free money to a lot of people, as more than 90 percent of wagerers as of this [...]

The Clemson rivalry

First off, I hope you’ll forgive the lack of a blog the past five days. The Christmas break saw yours truly go home to Washington to see family and friends – and along the way see a few cars with Gamecock decals. In fact at one point in Fairfax, Va., I saw a South Carolina [...]

Happy birthday, Darrin Horn

You know those car commercials out now where older actors reminisce about their best Christmas gifts? (A pony, a big wheel, an early video game system). Well, Darrin Horn’s holiday gift season was a bit different. You see, the South Carolina coach was born on Dec. 24. So on this Christmas Eve, while not only [...]

More from the Chik-fil-A

And I don’t just mean chicken nuggets. But they were good too. I spent Monday night over at the Chik-fil-A Classic at Richland Northeast High School, mainly watching a game filled with high-major prospects. So did Darrin Horn, almost all his staff, and his entire team, as they all got a look at future Gamecock [...]

Eating up some Chick-Fil-A

You will forgive, I hope, the corny phrase, but the Chick-fil-A Classic is quite the feast for South Carolina hoops recruiting. (I know, I know. Look it’s three days before Christmas and I’ve still got shopping to do.) Mere minutes after finishing off The Citadel on Saturday night, Darrin Horn and most of his staff [...]

Downey stands by Andy Kennedy

Devan Downey played for Andy Kennedy for a season at Cincinnati, and probably would have stayed there if Kennedy had been named the permanent coach. So it’s not surprising that Downey backed up his former coach, who was arrested early Wednesday morning for disorderly conduct. Kennedy, now the coach at Mississippi, was cited along with [...]

Downey being watched (for good reasons)

A good day for Devan Downey, a bad one for his former coach. The South Carolina point guard is on the watch list for the Naismith Award, given annually to the nation’s top college basketball player. Downey was one of six SEC players on the list. Downey was already on the preseason watch list for [...]

Lessons in the RPI

Tuesday night we were blessed, if that’s the right word, with two unusual RPI occurrences right here in the Palmetto State:

New SEC coaches? New rankings

You know how every offseason you see various folks pop up with their rankings of the SEC’s coaches? Well, we here at The Blog That Doesn’t Wait are anxious to get a jump on things. Now that Gene Chizik (really?) has been hired as Auburn’s coach, we know who all 12 coaches will be for [...]