Do South Carolinians take their football seriously?

capnfrog · July 1st, 2009, 11:11 PM

I was in usce yesterday and asked 12 people if they knew a guy name of steve spurrier. One guy knew and one asked wasn't he the guy in Ga., I replied "no, he is the guy at South carolina, mark richt is the guy at georgia." no one else had a clue. Maybe Hilton Head Island is too much into golf and has no interest in football. My wife finally told me to quit picking on these poor people.

CapstoneGrad06 · July 1st, 2009, 11:51 PM

I guess it just depends on the grouping of people you are around. You might encounter the same thing among a group of NASA guys in Huntsville.

TIDE-HSV · July 2nd, 2009, 12:22 AM

A huge slice of the NASA guys would be MSU grads, any way, HSV being the closest high tech center to Starkville (largest alum chapter outside MS). And they know who the Bama HC coach is and hate him, whoever he may be...

CATider · July 2nd, 2009, 12:41 AM

	Quote:	capnfrog
	I was in usce yesterday and asked 12 people if they knew a guy name of steve spurrier. One guy knew and one asked wasn't he the guy in Ga., I replied "no, he is the guy at South carolina, mark richt is the guy at georgia." no one else had a clue. Maybe Hilton Head Island is too much into golf and has no interest in football. My wife finally told me to quit picking on these poor people.

Die hard usc fans can't afford hanging out on Hilton Head Isle, unless they're behind a counter and asking if you want fries with your order.

CrimsonEyeshade · July 2nd, 2009, 07:40 AM

Hilton Head is about as reflective of the rest of South Carolina as Dollywood is of Tenne . . .

Well, you get my point.

You'll find a lot of things at Hilton Head Island, just not many S.C. natives.
This state takes its high school and college football very seriously. In that regard, they are much more Deep South than its neighbor to the immediate north.

elizabama74 · July 2nd, 2009, 07:44 AM

if golf was all they think about they should still know of Spurrier. He is a good golfer!

elizabama74 · July 2nd, 2009, 07:45 AM

	Quote:	CATider
	Die hard usc fans can't afford hanging out on Hilton Head Isle, unless they're behind a counter and asking if you want fries with your order.

or pumping gas (per lane kitten)

GrayTide · July 2nd, 2009, 08:52 AM

Having lived in SC in my earlier days, it use to be that they were then more of a basketball and baseball school and on occasion a decent football team. Unlike most of the SEC teams they only have one natural rivalry and that is Clemson which isn't in the SEC. Since joining the SEC they have developed somewhat of a rivalry with UGA due in part to its proximity to Columbia. Overall IMO their seriousness level for football is above UK, Vandy, and MSU but no where near the rest of the SEC teams. While I think SOS has pumped some life into that program it will never be more than a 7 to 8 win team.

BocaLance · July 2nd, 2009, 09:53 AM

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bamachile · July 2nd, 2009, 10:12 AM

	Quote:	BocaLance
	That's some solid, enlightening, hard-hitting, society-changing research you did.

It would've been more exhaustive, but the grant money ran out.

bamamoss2 · July 2nd, 2009, 08:02 PM

I am like an earlier poster in that Hilton Head is not a barometer of South Carolina.

I have a Gamecock fan that is so rabid he refuses to get me a ticket when Bama travels to Columbia (aiding and abetting the enemy).

I also know a rabid Clemson fan.

South Carolina has some similarities (instate rivalry) to Alabama; just not as rabid as Bama and Auburn fans.

rhYno · July 2nd, 2009, 08:07 PM

	Quote:	elizabama74
	or pumping gas (per lane kitten)

+1!

bamanut_aj · July 2nd, 2009, 09:16 PM

I know a man and woman who have matching mullets in honor of Steve Taneyhill.