re: Whats really stopping South Carolina from Being Good in Football?

Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Ohio State and Clemson come out and poach the talent nationwide. If location was everything, why would Miami ever be bad?

It has always been our leadership's inability to stoop down (in their minds) to the dirty little game of modern college football. They feel that they are above wasting their valuable time on such low pursuits. Hire an obedient Athletic Director to wallow in the mud with the other pigs and forget about it until Saturday.

Saturday comes where you make a show of walking like an Eastern Potentate trailing a crowd of worshipers to your skybox where you largely ignore what is going on between the goalposts.

This is in Columbia, South Freaking Carolina. As if anyone, anywhere, considers them above much of anything at all.

SOS made y’all pretty damn good.

Lack of a great coach
In state talent isn’t as abundant as states like Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Ms, Florida.

Having to share the state with Clemson who is now a championship program and can take all the top in state talent

I think having to recruit against Clemson and Appalachian State is extremely tough for them. Students that aren't quiet good enough to make it to Clemson end up going to Appalachian State because it's in such an incredible area. Not much attraction to Columbia.

We lose to Vanderbilt more often than Missouri, you are irrelevant.

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It's the same point

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No it isn't and there aren't any less 4 and 5 stars than there were 25+ years ago.

BTW,was Clemson "hoarding" 4 and 5 stars four years ago? Of course not

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Talent pool is down overall

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So SC can't win because California and Pennsylvania aren't producing 4 and 5 stars like they used to? This makes absolutely no sense.

BTW,look at who was "hoarding" talent in the 90's.It primarily schools like FSU and Tennessee...these things are always a changing dynamic.

The answer is and always has been our BOT structure. We have 1 BOT member per judicial circuit in the state, which means the circuits in the Upstate have as much voting power as those in the Midlands, despite a fraction of the fans and alums. All of these BOT members are selected by the legislature, which means they are political appointments for people loyal to the General Assembly, not the University. And last, there is no requirement that our BOT members have a degree from the University. The BOT member from my judicial circuit went to Sewanee.

Clemson has less BOT members than we do. Only half of their BOT members are selected by the legislature, while the other half are selected by the outgoing BOT member. These processes make coming to a consensus at Clemson far easier and make decisions up there far less political than they are here. Beyond this, Clemson's BOT has one major concern: to whip South Carolina's arse in football. South Carolina's BOT has two major concerns: enriching themselves and influence peddling.

The University of South Carolina will never win anything of note in football until there is a structural overhaul of our BOT. It will continue to be a job where re-tread coaches come at the end of their careers to make several million a year and be treated like a God for winning 8 games.

I mean, it's recruiting mostly. South Carolina has had some good teams and you've won some big games hitting above your weight level. But it's going to be hard to get to that next level until Clemson comes back down to earth. It will happen eventually.

They’d need a combination of the right coaching staff and luck. By luck I mean Florida Georgia and the west powers to be down big time. It’s not as simple as people think.

South Carolina will never be consistently good in football.

We just have to enjoy the rare run of success.