(In the spirit of Dr. Pepper)
Step 1: Find a golf course you'd like to play the rest of your life.
Step 2: Ensure that there's a "Senior Community" nearby.
Step 3: Join the golf course, and retire to the Senior Community.

The End.

You guys have a really young team. Why are you being so impatient. It's not spurriers fault for the Int in the endzone or the long Punt Return.

I appreciate the encouragement but you need to have watched this team extensively to understand it's not going to matter how much young talent we bring in. It's the little mistakes that have plagued us throughout the Spurrier era that will not go away. They consistently cost us games:

Incredibly poor clock management
Inability to get a play in from the sideline
Constant wasting of timeouts due to the play clock running down
Penalties at the costliest of moments (many which were pointless and cost us touchdowns)
Turnovers
Poor special teams play (kicking and kick coverage)
Blocked/missed PAT's
Swiss Cheese offensive lines
Inability to run the ball with any consistency
Overall dumb mistakes
Character issues

Most of these issues come down to coaching/leadership. For some reason this incarnation of Spurrier is incapable of coaching this team to take care of the small things. They add up and when you don't take care of the small things, bad things happen.

You can be disappointed with the results but it's hard to be disappointed with the effort. We've just been outmatched the last few weeks. It sucked to lose but our guys played their hearts out today. Don't quit on this team or the program.

To keep things in perspective I will say that most reasonable SC fans thought this was a 7-5 team going into the season. At this point its gonna be tough to get that 7th win but if we do it will come against either UF or chumpson(both of which would be incredibly sweet). Im gonna reserve judgment until after the season. Of course it does piss me off though seeing the same old problems haunt this team. But at the same time there has been progress made since last year. Guess we'll get a better idea of just how much progress it is in 3 weeks.

Agreed...if you'll look back I was one of those who predicted a 7-5 season as well. It's just ridiculous that the same old things can't be fixed.

Kevhugh makes very valid points. How have we gone from being told not to cheer for close losses against good teams (Auburn) to being told today that we did not play hard last week, but played harder today? The effort sucked against UT. It better not against Clemson. I am sick of losing badly to them when we have enough talent to win or have a better team. It probably doesn't matter against Florida, but who knows, maybe we finally play a complete game and win.

We just did not get it done today in a game that was ours to win.

Steve Spurrier has a beautiful house in Crescent Beach, FL, but I think the cocks can still beat clemson, and I also think that the team will be great next year

You know I've been shouting for the past few years that Spurrier was going to get SC in the right direction. I've been an adamant defender of the man. I'm not an SC fan, but I'm to the point now where I'm starting to agree with the detractors. Spurrier is not the answer I'm afraid. He's been there 5 years now and still it's the same old stuff. He should be one of the elite coaches in the country and if he is, there's no reason SC should be sitting where they are right now. I think it's time to start looking elsewhere. Brian Kelly comes to mind. Or Paul Johnson.

Yeah, Brian Kelly is a good pick. Or, let Ellis Johnson run the team and the defense, and hire the offensive coordinator from:
Houston
Tulsa
Arizona State
BYU
Or any team that averages 350-plus a game

We should go to Paul Johnson and pay him whatever he wants.

Why would a big name coach go to usc? You were lucky to get spurrier. He just shook up the coaching staff a bit and he has a lot of young talent to work with. Give him another 3 years and see what happens. The next coach will have the same inherent problems.spurrier IS a good coach, but winning in the sec aint easy especially on the road.

That would be sweet - a real high flying offense maybe!

I think the Cocks will end at 7-6 winning a nothing bowl game - papajohns.com or something but I hope they get some real fire to beat Clemson and make that one at least close.

hire Ron Zook. he knows how to beat Florida.

When we hire again, I don't want the number 1 criteria to be "big name". We saw how Holtz ended and the jury is out on HBC. A better choice would be a coordinator or a head coach from a mid level school. Why not hire the next Spurrier instead of one nearing retirement. That said, it was a no brainer to hire someone with HBC's resume who sought the job. I hope he leaves Carolina as our most successful coach.