South Carolina

[VolsSportsFan]

Good gracious...

 

[kdvol1]

I don't know if anyone else noticed this, but they have NO secondary.. Georgia had wide open receivers all night but Murray couldn't make the throws. I feel like if we can just slow their D-Line down A LITTLE, then we could light them up in the passing game. Just a wishful thought.

Thought you were the one who just warned against the suicide hotline this weekend??? Need some help?? Call me 1-800-GTFO

 

[allvol123]

This is fun. A team with a horrendous SEC record over the last 3 years has fans that think it is logical that we should knock off the second best team in the league.

 

[BruinVol]

I haven't seen this mentioned but as good as they seem to be at present there is no chance they will be at full strength when we play them. If we can win at State and stay healthy along with being competitive against the tide, I think we have a fighting chance in Columbia. They will certainly be beat and battered after Georgia, LSU, and Florida just before us. Very little chance they are at full strength!

 

[LurkerExposed]

The thing South Carolina did (which I didn't think they would try) was press UGA's WRs and throw off the timing of Murray. Once their WRs got open, Murray had one of their rushers in his face. It was a great gameplan by their coordinator. With that being said, no way they press Patterson or Hunter. Vandy exploited a soft secondary, and I think UT will too. But, can our D stop them? It would be hard for an optimist like me to even act like that's possible at this point.

Vandy benefited from a boneheaded decision made by South Carolina's SS Brison Williams...

Williams was set up to make an ESPN highlight monster hit on the Vandy WR as he was going up for the catch...but for some reason he thought at the last second that the ball was too high for the WR or off the mark. Whatever, he suddenly made a half-leap into the air like he was going to catch the pass...

The WR catches it instead, and because Williams was now out of position, he wasn't able to do anything but make a feeble grab for the WR as he sped on by. It was a 78-yd TD pass, the only TD of the game for Vanderbilt...

Vandy threw for 214 yds in that game with USC...a defense that averages allowing that a game would currently be 45th in the nation: not outstanding, but decent. Minus that 78-yd TD busted play, USC held Vandy to 136 passing yds. It was the first game of the season for USC, played on the opponent's field in front of a hyped up home crowd. USC lost a projected starting CB for the game, and was relying on an un-proven former safety to take his place. IMO, they did pretty good considering...

The secondary has allowed the following passing yds the rest of the way:

ECU: 333
UAB: 240
Missouri: 146
UK: 123
UGA: 109

In the ECU game, USC goes up 35-0 and pulls their starters. ECU puts in a back-up QB at that time too. The Gamecocks have held the ECU offense to 193 passing yds at the time. Then the new ECU QB peels off 140 yds and 10 pts against USC back-ups.

If it wasn't for that game, USC would be 13th nationally in passing defense instead of 28th. ECU is the only opponent to gain 400+ yds against the USC defense thus far. No other opponent has gained 300+ against them...

USC's defense has allowed 3 passing TDs to be scored, and 3 rushing TDs: the busted TD pass by Vandy, the TD pass by the back-up ECU QB versus USC back-ups, the rushing TD by Mizzou in the final seconds against USC back-ups, and a rushing TD by UGA in the final 2 minutes against USC back-ups.

Only 2 TDs - scored by UK - were legitimate TDs scored against the USC starting 11 on defense, In 6 games thus far...