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TC22 said:
And that's where I think you are very wrong. Dawn ALWAYS draws a crowd and this year things would have been buzzing with the things she has done AND with Kim Mulkey being added to the fray. Plus, it's not just WBB - it's MBB too. I get it about the pandemic and I don't blame them. It's just rather ironic that they had FB in person in July and have close to 100,000 people in stadiums with not mask but now are worried about the pandemic. Does sort of made you go hmmmm...or something.:confused::confused::confused::confused:
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Money, money, money!

Check how much the SEC schools make on football.

Check how much the SEC makes on basketball. Other than maybe Kentucky, it ain't close.

But "yeah" the coverage on Kim would have been very interesting.

One could also say that the Football media days were conducted during the earlier covid lull, while there is now a spike. So, it could be coming from the coaches rather than the conference officials or ADs.
 
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JonathanXIV said:
We dream of 3-3. In Connecticut, football season is a way to kill time until basketball season starts.
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I finally gave up my season football tickets to spend that money on basketball tournaments.
 
Brantley Southers (Getting inducted into the SC Hall of Fame) I got here (USC) in 84. Great basketball player-walked into the Russell House Cafeteria one day-all the guys stopped eating.

 
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I had a class with Brantley at USC; she was a great basketball player and I enjoyed watching her play.
 
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cockhrnleghrn said:
I had a class with Brantley at USC; she was a great basketball player and I enjoyed watching her play.
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This is so cool. I had a summer class with LaKeisha Sutton and Iesha Walker. I wonder what USC was like in the 80s.

I had a few SPTE classes with Connor Shaw and Stephon Gilmore as well. They were always pretty good students.
 
Gamecockfan77 said:
No because I've watched her play and that's my opinion.

can she drive as a four and hit face up shots? Sure.

That's what makes her a potentially great four.
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Watched her play clarification ? @ an actual tourney where Essence Tip Hayes played on the EBYL circuit or Youtube videos ?
 
SCGamecock said:
This is so cool. I had a summer class with LaKeisha Sutton and Iesha Walker. I wonder what USC was like in the 80s.

I had a few SPTE classes with Connor Shaw and Stephon Gilmore as well. They were always pretty good students.
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Five Points. We could go to 5 points in the 80s. Lol . for a yr-lived in the same dorm as Darius Rucker (Honeycombs)
 
Creature said:
I was sure the 2nd best female basketball out of WJ Keenan transferred in to USC ? Apologies...
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Shaunzinski Gortman didn’t transfer in. She committed to USC while at W J Keenan. Teresa Geter transferred in from Tennessee. She attended Columbia High School.
 
One can write a book and call it the secret WBB History at South Carolina: Covering the Parson years and the early tenure of the Wilson years. When we moved to the SEC-we did not support WBB $$ as we do now, poor recruiting plan by Wilson (IMO)and we could not recruit with TN,UGA, Vandy,auburn,LSU,Ole Miss. Especially holding on to instate.

Then UNC with former Francis Marions Coach Sylvia Hatchell picking our bones & getting the best players out of both Carolina's . . Those were the powers in the 90s. Arky a little bit when Fry Blair was their and took them to the final 4.
 
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Creature said:
Watched her play clarification ? @ an actual tourney where Essence Tip Hayes played on the EBYL circuit or Youtube videos ?
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FIBA world 3 on 3 tournament, 3-4 full ganes.

I think I've watched a full high school game of hers online but perhaps not. Couldn't immediately find it.

of course all the YouTube highlight videos and hype videos "Stars Collide: Barker vs Feagin get raw at figJam." Etc etc.

every time there is a tall girl who can dribble a little and hit a face up shot lately folks want to make her a small forward.

I don't buy it. You need to be perimeter oriented for that to work so the interior doesn't clog and you can defend guards. I don't think the vast majority of them can pull it off.

can you force it? I guess. It's really just a question of performance against teams that can beat you though.
 
Creature said:
Five Points. We could go to 5 points in the 80s. Lol . for a yr-lived in the same dorm as Darius Rucker (Honeycombs)
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I was there from 2008-2013.. and those were some of the last great years of 5 Points if you ask most people. It was still relatively safe, every storefront had a bar or restaurant, a lot of the classic 5 points bars were still around (Jungle Jims, PTs, ParrotHeads, GoodTimes, Group Therapy), it was lively during the day and night, CPD would close off Harden to automobile traffic for really big night games back then, I'll never forget the way we celebrated in 5 points for the Alabama win.. Harden was closed off and it had to be 50,000 people out there. It looked like "St. Pats in 5 points", but at night. Columbia was still pretty student friendly at that time. Great times. The Vista also became a "thing" during that time. If you were into the bar scene more than the house party scene then it was a great time to be at USC, although I thoroughly enjoyed both scenes during my time.
 
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Five Points is still safe, per capita, but so many tens of thousands of people are out there every weekend that there are going to be some problems. There were people getting in trouble out there back in the 80s, also. Metro Columbia was also half the size then that it is now.
 
SCGamecock said:
This is so cool. I had a summer class with LaKeisha Sutton and Iesha Walker. I wonder what USC was like in the 80s.

I had a few SPTE classes with Connor Shaw and Stephon Gilmore as well. They were always pretty good students.
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It wasn't that much different than it is, now, but there are some landmarks gone like the Big Bird, Patrone's, Greenstreet's and Stuffy's.
 
Gamecockfan77 said:
FIBA world 3 on 3 tournament, 3-4 full ganes.

I think I've watched a full high school game of hers online but perhaps not. Couldn't immediately find it.

of course all the YouTube highlight videos and hype videos "Stars Collide: Barker vs Feagin get raw at figJam." Etc etc.

every time there is a tall girl who can dribble a little and hit a face up shot lately folks want to make her a small forward.

I don't buy it. You need to be perimeter oriented for that to work so the interior doesn't clog and you can defend guards. I don't think the vast majority of them can pull it off.

can you force it? I guess. It's really just a question of performance against teams that can beat you though.
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The problem is they see EDD, and now Stewie in the WNBA rebounding at one end and shooting a lot of 3's. They think everyone can do it.
 
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Only the numbers will really be news. Pretty well known this has long been in the works except to a segment of the fan base who convinced themselves, apparently, that USC wasn’t going to step up to keep her. :rolleyes:
 
Since we are going back to memory lane.... I remember being in the RBC (now PNC) Arena in March of 2002 to see the Regional Final when the beloved Blue Devils defeated the upstart Chickens from Columbia. Great times.



SCGamecock said:
I was there from 2008-2013.. and those were some of the last great years of 5 Points if you ask most people. It was still relatively safe, every storefront had a bar or restaurant, a lot of the classic 5 points bars were still around (Jungle Jims, PTs, ParrotHeads, GoodTimes, Group Therapy), it was lively during the day and night, CPD would close off Harden to automobile traffic for really big night games back then, I'll never forget the way we celebrated in 5 points for the Alabama win.. Harden was closed off and it had to be 50,000 people out there. It looked like "St. Pats in 5 points", but at night. Columbia was still pretty student friendly at that time. Great times. The Vista also became a "thing" during that time. If you were into the bar scene more than the house party scene then it was a great time to be at USC, although I thoroughly enjoyed both scenes during my time.
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You must be a young cat. I remember talking to my friend (when she was in Columbia at the time) ... after watching that game in 2010. I told her what happened... and she had no idea that a game was even taking place. Probably the biggest win in school history???
 
JDuro said:


Only the numbers will really be news. Pretty well known this has long been in the works except to a segment of the fan base who convinced themselves, apparently, that USC wasn’t going to step up to keep her. :rolleyes:
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Good for Staley. Now fix the roads in South Carolina next. 26 and 95 are god awful... and the other roads weren't that much better. When I was down in June.... my friend was fussing, saying that I was hitting every bump, pothole, or crack in the road. I was thinking to myself... thats all they have in the roads down here. :confused:
 
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