Posted by Willy Mac

I know it’s probably old as the hills but I had to share it with you.

Posted by Chili

This week’s column again brings a special peek into the strange land of the Fighting Gamecock Forum and GCN. In this frightening forum one can witness a world where a national championship season is just a year away, your coach is brighter and more special than the Baby Jesus, your stadium looks nothing like an upside down cockroach, and your players brutish actions are easily excusable. This is a forum where if you post anything as a Clemson fan or question anything about Sakerlina, you will be immediately banninated. We joke sometimes about the proprietors of Tigernet being overly zealous in deleting of posts, but on FGF, they really don’t mess around.

I can’t sum up gamecock fandom any better than I did earlier this year:
FGF and Gamecock “football” in general are both a lot like Scientology. Both are pseudoscience bellied by smaller than reported fan bases of delusional quacks who keep out any outside influence that would shatter their false realities and gross misconceptions and treat outsiders who don’t drink their particular brand of Kool-Aid like enemies.

Yeah, because USC’s Gameday didn’t have dozens of anti-Clemson signs even prompting Fowler to say he wouldn’t stand to have Clemson badmouthed. We’re terribly insecure. That whole dominating the in-state rivalry basically, well, forever, that makes us super-insecure.

If you call culture 50 signs referencing “cocks” (not the animal) and about a dozen confederate flags waving amongst the flags of numerous other schools, sure, I guess they stepped right in a steaming pile of “culture.”

And nothing says “culture” like salivating over a washed up old wrestler/wife beater attending your game with some other quasi-famous hick.

Another Gameday sign idea: this is like the University of North Colorado petitioning the Tar Heels to stop using “their” acronym.

I’ve got news for you, cock, USC has cheated every bit as much as any national-title winning team in history and you’ve got 3 bowl wins all-time and a sub .500 record to show for it. Congrats. Also, if you read carefully into the post, you see Gamecock logic at work. “It’s actually a good thing we’re losers, it means we haven’t cheated! Yeah, that’s the ticket.”

A brave Tiger sets em straight, surely to be absolutely perma-banned from the board.

Trust me, there’s plenty of buying and selling going on around Willy-Brice, ask any Gamecock player. You may not find tickets, but you’ll forget you were ever looking for ‘em in the first place.

Now we get around to actually talking about the Tennessee game.

Dude, I won 3 national titles in a row with Duke on my 360. In football. It’s clearly not an accurate predictor of real world success.

Speaking of awful shitholes, I’m sorry about your daughter, buddy, but THIS IS WHY YOU DON’T SEND YOUR DAUGHTER TO USC. I wonder what position that robber plays? If she was in 5 Points after dark she was probably going to end up with a piece in her face at the end of the night anyway, at least this way she only lost her money and not her dignity.

It almost gives me hope for Carolina fans that one of them actually has the ability to take off the garnet-colored glasses and realize that they suck. Almost.

And another one…

As soon as I think Gamecock fans are starting to come out of their idiot-coma they go and post some shit like this. Look, I’m willing to admit that the SEC is a better football conference than the ACC, I’d be dumb not to, especially this year. That being said, this viewpoint expressed by the Sakerlina fan is based on the belief that just being in the SEC makes them a better team and somehow superior to Clemson. Ballyhooing one’s conference is usually reserved for those in said conference’s cellar. Also, please tell me you realize how ironic it is for this guy to call out NCSU’s stalled turnaround. I seem to remember a certain diminutive former golden-domer who was supposed to bring SEC and national titles to Columbia. How’d that work out? That’s okay, SOS is going to help them turn the corner, they’re knocking at the door, they’re just a year away, etc. etc. insert overly-optimistic football cliché comment here.

At least the last guy wasn’t quite this delusional.

Yet another moral victory for Carolina fans!

The type of fan behavior that would turn off the kind of recruits USC goes after wouldn’t so much fall under bottle throwing and chanting profanities. I think they’d be more turned off by things like reading and discipline.

When I think Gamecock fans, I think class!

That’s all I can stomach for now.

Posted by Chili

This UNC student pretty much ends the conversation about who the next Tar Heel coach will be. UNC’s gotta do something now that Duke is going after Ed O’Neil. Clemson never would’ve beaten UNC 52-7 if the Tigers were shrunk down to 1/300^th of their actual size.

Posted by Block-C Staff

Last week’s results:

Texas @ Texas Tech – Texas
NCSU @ UVa - UVa
Penn State @ Purdue – PSU
FSU @ Maryland – Maryland
Nebraska @ Ok. State – OSU
Florida vs. UGa – UF
Miami @ GT – GT
Mizzou @ Oklahoma – Oklahoma
Tennessee @ SCAR – UT
Clemson @ VT (Thurs) – VT by a LOT

Scoring as follows (Golf Scoring System)
Uttles – 3
Chili – 3
Greg – 5
Willy Mac – 5
Brad – 5
Lola – 5
Tully – Again, unable to be located for picks. We’ve uncovered the last known photograph of Tulls:

Overall
1. Chili -19
2. Lola -25
3. Brad -29
4. Willy Mac -30
5. Greg -32
Just for fun
6. Uttles – 3/week average
7. Tully – A job-free college graduate in Seattle. Gnarly.

Week 10 Pick 10 games are:

Maryland @ Clemson
LSU @ Tennessee
Wake Forest @ Boston College
Missouri @ Nebraska
Oklahoma @ Texas A&M
Penn State @ Wisconsin
Navy @ Duke
Georgia @ Kentucky
Arkansas @ SCAR
West Virginia @ Louisville (Thurs.)

Chili’s Picks
Maryland @ Clemson – CU
LSU @ Tennessee – UT
Wake Forest @ Boston College – BC
Missouri @ Nebraska - Nebraska
Oklahoma @ Texas A&M – TAMU
Penn State @ Wisconsin – UW
Navy @ Duke – Navy
Georgia @ Kentucky – UGa
Arkansas @ SCAR - Arkansas
West Virginia @ Louisville (Thurs.) – WVU

Willy Mac’s Picks
Maryland @ Clemson – Clemson
LSU @ Tennessee – LSU
Wake Forest @ Boston College – BC
Missouri @ Nebraska - Huskers
Oklahoma @ Texas A&M – TAMU
Penn State @ Wisconsin – WIZ
Navy @ Duke – Dookies
Georgia @ Kentucky – UGA
Arkansas @ SCAR - Arkansas
West Virginia @ Louisville (Thurs.) – WVU

Posted by Chili

We were outplayed in every facet of the game. We were outcoached. I think they painted their field crisper than we do ours and their turf is probably fantastic and soft. Their stadium foods and beverages probably rival that of the cuisine from the finest French chefs. I do not believe they donned their pants one leg at a time, as did Clemson, either.

We learned several things tonight and several things we’ve been pretty sure were truths were hammered into our heads. The neckbubble is especially powerful on Thursday nights. Rob Spence is a feast or famine play caller. Tommy Bowden will never pull a quarterback, no matter how poorly he is playing. Teams that buy into their own publicity often tumble as magnificently as they ascended.

For the record let me state that while the officiating wasn’t awful, it was incredibly one-sided and the overturned fumble by VT in the 3rd quarter was phantom horseshit. It was anything but irrefutable. I’m refuting right now. See, refute, refute. Not that it does any good to whine or wonder what would’ve happened if we had the ball in their territory.

More on Spence. He has mastered exactly five plays. Bubble screen, run it up the gut, bubble screen, a pass play thrown to exactly 3 yards behind the first down marker, slant. When these plays work well, as they have all season, Clemson looks like a worldbeater. When they fail, he becomes the most stubborn force on the planet and gravity is more likely to reverse itself than he is to make adjustments. If running it up the middle didn’t work the first 20 minutes of the game, why would it succeed the following 40? The VT defensive coordinator looked like a genius tonight, but in all honesty you could’ve replaced him with a bowl of gravy and seen the same result. No adjustments are needed against a dense OC who refuses to adjust himself.

While VT proved me wrong by shutting down our running game, I was right on the money by stating how frightening the prospect of Proctor passing proved to be. Proctor sucked, plain and simple. This is suckage and subsequent refusal by a coach to bench said sucking player not seen since Charlie Whitehurst’s disappointing junior campaign. In Proctor’s defense, there were multiple pass drops by our receivers. I had complained during our cupcake stretch prior to GT that we needed to pass more to oil up that cog in our machine, but Spence’s playbook is about as diverse and flexible as that of Jeff Bowden. Proctor’s passes were often just amazingly off the mark. Was this the same quarterback who looked so good versus Florida State? Did Brandon Streeter sneak in the locker room and suit up?

I don’t know what to take away from this game. I think we won’t know until the next three games, none of which will be easy. Perhaps tonight we saw that, while I think we are a great team, we are not yet a great program. We’re on the way there, building facilities, gaining recruits, refining our coaching, but the performance tonight, or lack thereof, should be a warning sign that all the pieces aren’t yet in place. Much like in 2000, just when Clemson was receiving the most positive national press and respect, we absolutely bomb. The difference is the victory over Georgia Tech, which now seems so long ago. A four day turnaround from a game that big obviously took its toll on Clemson. Let’s hope we can get back on track and f*ck up some teams in red.

Perhaps our greatest accomplishment was gently aiding Ore down the field.