0 comments by Louis Dragner on 9/23/2010
Auburn University Location: Auburn Alabama Students: 25,078 Stadium: Jordan-Hare stadium, Capacity 87,451 Head Coach: Gene Chizik (record 11-5) 2nd year at Auburn 2010 Record: 3-0 (defeated Clemson 27-24 in OT last week) 2009 Record: 7-5 (3-5 in the SEC) Famous Alumni: Walter Riggs (Father of Clemson Football), Bo Jackson (1985 Heisman trophy winner), Charles Barkley […]
0 comments by Louis Dragner on 9/21/2010
The football season is flying by, we are already at week 4 of the season. Here are 10 questions for the upcoming football weekend. 1.) Ranked as the top 2 running backs coming out of high school last year by different recruiting sites, so far who has had the better freshman year? Michael Dyer (Auburn) […]
0 comments by Louis Dragner on 9/16/2010
Furman University Location: Greenville, SC Students: 2,977 Head Coach: Bobby Lamb (63-34 overall) 9th season as head coach 2010 Record: 1-0, defeated Colgate 45-15 2009 Record: 6-5 overall, 5-3 in the SoCon Famous Alumni: Herman Lay (Founder of Lay’s potato chips), Clint Dempsey (US Soccer Star), Victoria Jackson (SNL),Sam Wyche (NFL Head Coach) What is a Paladin? […]
0 comments by Louis Dragner on 9/15/2010
It was announced today that Weslye Saunders has been dismissed from the South Carolina football team. We had a feeling that this was coming, especially since he has been suspended from the team since early in fall practice. Saunders a senior tight end at Carolina has caught 60 passes for 718 yards and six touchdowns […]
0 comments by Louis Dragner
Well “Monster Weekend” has come and gone, here are some questions to prepare you for the upcoming college football weekend: 1.) Bigger bust so far this season, Big East or ACC? Better odds right now, you winning the lottery, or the ACC winning a National Championship this season? 2.) After 2 weeks of football, is […]
0 comments by Louis Dragner on 9/9/2010
University of Georgia Location: Athens, Georgia Students: 34,885 Head Coach: Mark Richt (91-27) 10th season 2010 record: 1-0 defeated UL-L 55-7 2009 game against USC: UGA victory 41-37 in Athens Famous Alumni: Kim Basinger (Actor) Ryan Seacrest (American Idol), REM, John Bell (lead signer of Wide Spread Panic) UGA offense vs. USC defense: Players to […]
0 comments by Louis Dragner on 9/8/2010
Well, week one of the college football season has come and gone. As much fun as it was, it is time to move on to week two. This week’s games could be one of the best weekends ever for non-conference match-ups. I kind of wish USC was playing Furman this week, so I could […]
0 comments by Louis Dragner on 8/30/2010
Southern Mississippi University Location: Hattiesburg, MS Students: 16,050 Head Coach: Larry Fedora (14-12, 2 years at Southern Miss) 2009 Record: 7-6 overall, C-USA 5-3 Returning Starters: Offense 3 Defense 9, returning 1 kicker from last season Famous Alumni: Brett Farve, Ray Guy and Jimmy Buffett, yes that Jimmy Buffett USC Offense Vs. Southern Miss Defense: […]
0 comments by Louis Dragner on 8/26/2010
Each week during the college football season I will post 10 questions about the upcoming week. These questions involve not only our beloved USC Gamecocks but include the SEC and college football as a whole. Feel free to take a look and let me know what you think by commenting. Can the SEC win a 5th national […]
0 comments by Louis Dragner on 8/23/2010
Maple leaves, over polite people, cold weather, round ham called bacon and Cory Boyd can all be found in a land called Canada. While many of use are preparing for the Gamecocks season to start on September 2 or the NFL season to start a week or so later, the Canadian football league has been going strong for a while […]
0 comments by Louis Dragner on 8/18/2010
The 2010 college football season is quickly approaching and once again LOHD will be having a college pick’em contest. The winner will receive some kind of cool prize. If you are interested in picking the winner of the top games each week, please feel free to join our league at Yahoo.com. The Group ID 8635 and the Password Gilmore05. […]
0 comments by Louis Dragner
The year was 2000 and the Gamecocks had lost 21 straight games. At the time, I was a sophomore at Carolina and had yet to see the Gamecocks win a football game as a college student. Which at the time was very depressing after all Lou Holtz was our head coach. The 2000 season turned out to be […]
0 comments by Louis Dragner on 8/16/2010
I will apologize a head of time, there should be no basketball talk in August but this is kind of big news for Gamecocks basketball fans. ESPN announced today that USC will open the 2010-2011 basketball season at Michigan State. The Spartans were a final four team last year and should be a preseason top five team […]
0 comments by Louis Dragner on 8/11/2010
On Phil Steele’s blog this week, he posted his home field advantages for all 120 FBS schools. Below, I have listed the SEC schools in order by Phil. He gets his ranking by 9 different factors that include record at home the past 5 years, attendance percentage, actual attendance, etc. 2010 SEC Home Field Advantage […]
0 comments by Louis Dragner on 8/3/2010
Today marks the first day of USC pre-season practice, which means we have 30 days until the first game of the season against Southern Miss. If you listened to our podcast from this week, you heard The General give you a run down of things to look for as the Gamecocks practice. Offensive line: About […]
