Could FSU's Jameis Winston get kicked out of school before eligibility used up?

Jameis Winston, has FSU where
they want to stay. But it's hard to keep
ignoring the behavior. 

Jameis Winston is not likely to play a full college career at FSU.

How much more can Winston get away with?

Tuesday, FSU QB and last year's Heisman Trophy winner Winston shouted out (inappropriate) comments of a sexual in nature.
He's being benched for a half versus Clemson Saturday.
And yelling crude or vulgar words is not a necessarily overly harsh offense, but it shows a pattern of a college student who thinks he can do whatever he wants because of who he is.

Winston was accused of sexually assaulting a fellow student in late 2012. That is an extremely serious offense.
Prosecutors declined to file charges in that case, even though the girl presenting the charge quickly went to the police.
According to the New York Times, the Tallahassee Police Department conducted virtually no investigation of the claim against Winston.
In May, Winston admitted taking $32 in crab legs from a grocery store. Virtually nothing happened.

Juxtapose Winston with former Florida recruit Cam Newton. After being arrested for stealing a laptop, Newton violated an honor code (allegedly cheating in academics) and he and the school parted ways. Newton is now in the NFL. 

Did the separation from footbal wake up Newton? Will it take a drastic move like dismissal from FSU for Winston to get the message?

Florida State once enjoyed football supremacy. Former Head Coach Bobby Bowden often had the Seminoles in the hunt for a National Championship.

From 1987 to 2000, under Bowden, the Seminoles finished every season with at least 10 wins and in the top 5 of the Associated Press College Football Poll. FSU won the national championship in 1993 and 1999.

Since Bowden's retirement after the 2009 season, the Noles had not had much success. FSU was losing to teams it once dominated. But that changed in 2013, with the arrival of Winston.

An improbable loss by Alabama placed FSU up against a very beatable Auburn team for the National Championship last year, and the Noles won it.

That win broke the SEC's grip on the college football crown, and it was like 1999 all over again for Noles fans.

Winston obviously gets much of the credit for that National Championship. But now FSU fans are presented with the dilemma of overlooking this very character-challenged superstar, or the fear of a possible return to football obscurity.

Florida State will do anything to stay on top. But because Winston has been let off the hook to this point, he is going to do something that takes it out of the university’s hands.

Will slick trial lawyers get child murderer off easy on insanity claim?

Is Jones already trying to wiggle off the
hook for killing his five children? 

According to a warrant Tim Jones, Jr., who allegedly killed his five children “stated that he believed the children were going to kill him, chop him up, and feed him to the dogs."

The warrant information was released by The Lexington County Sheriff's Department. 

Looks like Jones and his trial lawyer are trying to save his life, after he so brutally took the life of his precious children.

Jones' attorney, Aimee Zmroczekbeen, is already claiming Jones has been treated for mental health problems in the past, but she has not presented specifics. 

 Zmroczekbeen also complained that Jones is being "portrayed as a monster." 

Donnie Myers is the solicitor in Lexington County. He has a reputation for being hard on criminals.

He needs to get out ahead of this, and prosecute for a speedy trial, and do not concede anything to slick attorneys trying to pervert justice.

It's sad all the way around. But if Jones is allowed easy consequences, like life, it will lead to more murder.

As it is, multiple killers enjoy cult-hero status to some of the sickest in our society. Severe, unapologetic and quick retribution certainly is a deterrent, even though the left says it is not.

Killing, especially the killing of innocent children, is getting out of hand.

A society that goes light on the evil, is in danger of losing itself to the wicked and evil. This country is certainly to that point. 

  

Obama's economy forces Columbia food bank to life support

Missouri Political News Service image. 

Sadly, the people most-likely to idolize Obama, suffering most.

According to The State newspaper: Harvest Hope Book Bank’s four emergency food pantries are implementing

partial closings.

The hungry and needy using Harvest Hope Food Bank's emergency food pantry on Shop Road got a big, and demoralizing surprise when they found the pantry closed Wednesday morning.

The State said closing the emergency food pantry “is part of a rotating system that has been put into place throughout the food bank's four locations in the wake of recent employee furloughs.”

Also: because of more destitute and hungry people, produced by the horrible Obama-economy, the food bank has had to lay off employees. The food bank is having trouble making ends meet too. 

In a down economy, donations become more difficult to attract, while demand increases. 

The Obama-economy is a disaster all the way around. 

As a result, The State said: “the food bank has reduced the days of operation at its four locations on Shop Road as well as in Cayce, Florence and Greenville.”

Food Bank officials have do not know when the plight will end.

Also: The State did not mention the depressed economy as a reason for the overwhelming demand of the impoverished. But high unemployment, expensive healthcare, astronomical food and gas prices, with no relief in sight have been constant since President Barack Obama took office in 2008.  

New Report Finds SC Poised to Benefit Big from Offshore Resource Development

NEWS RELEASE New Report Finds SC Poised to Benefit Big from Offshore Resource Development 

Columbia, S.C. – Today, Palmetto Policy Forum (PPF) released a new report titled SC’s Offshore Opportunity: Economic & 

Environmental Impacts of Atlantic Energy Exploration.   

On July 18, 2014 the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), a division of the U.S. Department of the Interior,

announced that it would allow for modern surveys of the Mid‐ and South‐Atlantic coast to update 40‐year old data on

offshore petroleum resources. This type of advanced seismic mapping will yield a far more accurate picture of offshore oil

and natural gas reserves than what is currently available. The BOEM announcement could present significant opportunity

for South Carolina, perhaps as soon as 2018.   

Forum President Ellen Weaver said, “Palmetto Policy Forum exists to offer well‐researched information for South Carolina 

citizens and decision‐makers.  Our new report balances both possible economic and environmental impacts and concludes 

that South Carolina could be the 2nd biggest state beneficiary of a potential Atlantic‐based energy production boom.  It’s hard 

to overstate the tremendous opportunity this presents for our State.”   Key report findings include: 

 At peak production in 2035, capital investment could reach $2.7 billion annually with up to nearly 46,000

new jobs

 Lease and royalty payments to the state could exceed $1 billion dollars in 2035 with $163 million

generated in state and local taxes.

 Accounting for the cost of carbon impacts and the unlikely event of a spill, the ratio of benefits to costs is

2:1.

 As home to major manufacturers like BMW, Honda, Daimler, Boeing, Bosch and others, the structure of

South Carolina’s economy is likely to foster the development of oilfield equipment manufacturing as well as other supplies for the energy industry. South Carolina’s manufacturing workforce would also be an attractive factor in decisions to build or expand this manufacturing capacity within the state.

 South Carolina has two major ports that would likely play a prominent role in offshore oil and gas

production. Using the multipliers for economic impacts on ports implies that offshore oil and gas

development would create more than 1,174 jobs for the Georgetown and Charleston ports in 2035 under the high production scenario. Additional employment would be created as these ports invest in new capacity and handle larger volumes of equipment and materials for an offshore oil and gas industry.

Several key South Carolina leaders offered thoughts on the significance of the Forum’s report:

Including:  U.S. Senator Tim Scott; U.S. Representative Joe Wilson; Representative Jeff  Duncan;

U.S. Representative Tom Rice; and SC Representative Alan Clemmons (Horry County.) 

Is Tom Ervin endorsing socialized medicine and violence toward women?

Bullying a woman is not good form.

The news about violence toward women is abundant these days. So is it smart for left-leaning petition  gubernatorial candidate Tom Ervin to endorse the bullying of Gov. Nikki Haley?

Haley is South Carolina's first female governor.

In his latest commercial, Ervin attacks Haley for not expanding a costly and poorly managed, medical welfare program. 

About 30 seconds into the Ervin advertisement, an obnoxious and overly aggressively media plant forces a microphone in a cornered Haley's face and demands an answer. It's not even clear what the reporter is asking about.

Haley just gets away, which is smart for any women facing an  attack from an unreasonable aggressor. Ervin's commercial just bashes Haley even more for separating herself from her rude tormentor.

Is Tom Ervin encouraging violence toward women?  

And if it's Medicaid expansion, that the commercial is about, we already know her answer. If Ervin is opposite Haley on Medicaid expansion, that by itself should disqualify him. President Barack Obama's Medicaid expansion scheme is a bait and switch ploy to expand socialized medicine. It expands free healthcare for those who refuse to pay for it. Medicaid results in people with colds, who neglect doctors visits during the day, ending up at the emergency room.

Medicaid patients are most costly, because they are not paying for healthcare. They don't care what the price is. Taxpayers are paying for it. So Medicaid patients do not have to plan and scrape, like contributors do. To expand Medicaid, based on a government promise now, will just cost SC taxpayers billions in the future, long after the federal government is even more broke than it is now.

More likely, Ervin's bully-pro-Medicaid commercial may be showing he is desperate.

Ervin has lots of money. He is a wealthy trial lawyer. Is he a disguised, left-leaning candidate doing the bidding of Democrat Vincent Sheheen? It seems like it.

And with polls show Haley beating Sheheen and Ervin, Ervin could be getting desperate enough to encourage aggressive behavior toward a woman, even if is an issue people are more acutely aware of right now.  

Mark Richt's Meltdown; is it a sign of deeper problems for him at Georgia?

Richt not setting a good example after
loss to Spurrier and the  Gamecocks. 

Georgia Football Coach Mark Richt is having a difficult time accepting his team's 38-35 loss to South Carolina, Saturday.

He's gone to the SEC to get a “clarification” of a holding call that brought back a 54-yard TD run by Ga. RB Todd Gurley.

Even more absurd, Richt is questioning the intentional grounding call against his QB late in the game, after a Gamecock turnover gave the Bulldogs a chance to tie or go ahead.

Failing to score, after a missed FG, is likely what is eating at Richt. South Carolina had literally given him a chance to win the game, after his team had gotten outplayed for more than three quarters.

Richt should have sent the officials a fruit basket after the game, for not ejecting RB Todd Gurley in the first half. Gurley, Richt's star and only hope, punched two Gamecock players, but the penalty was called on the Gamecocks, extending a Bulldog drive.

But could Richt's complaining be the sign of a deeper fear for him?

Maybe Richt knows that if he fails to bring home some big hardware, like an SEC Championship this year, the fans will finally get their way.

Maybe if Richt sputters, and does not win the SEC-East, he will be replaced.

In the past South Carolina has lost and let Georgia back into the SEC-East Championship.

Maybe Richt knows his luck is running out, and one more year of underachievement will end his stint at Georgia.

If so, that may explain his ridiculous behavior over another beating at the hands of the Head Ball Coach.  That is enough to drive any coach crazy. 

Does Spurrier finally have his TD-producing offense at SC?

Do the Gamecocks finally have muscles
to flex on offense? Can SC demoralize
opponents with quick-strike, point pile-ons?

Conner Shaw was a Great QB. But he was not Spurrier's style of guy. Shaw was one of the best improvisers in college football in 2013. And he had deceptive speed. He could get past a defensive player, before a play could be made.

And he had to, because of blocking breakdowns at times. 

But that is not what 2014 QB Dylan Thompson brings to the table. Thompson is a gun-slinging ace, who is finding WRs and TEs all over the field. (Jones, Roland, Byrd, Cooper, Wilds, Davis, Anderson and eventually Brent and Adams etc...)

South Carolina fans are used to long, excruciating drives, spiced with big, against-the-odds, plays for first downs.

There were plenty of three-and-outs in the past. Series where the Gamecocks could put away a team, but sputtered on O. Points were part of a grind and they were highly valuable.

But: at times on Saturday versus Georgia, Thompson and the SC offense made scoring look too easy. The style of play was reminiscent to Spurrier's high-scoring offenses at Florida.

In addition to Thompson's pass-first, to anyone open, mentality, the gamecock offensive line looked good. The pass blocking was excellent. Blockers also made holes for RBs Mike Davis and Brandon Wilds.

When the Gamecocks faced a third and long at about the two-minute mark versus the Bulldogs, Wilds picked up all but three inches of a crucial first down. Thompson did the rest, to end the game.

The defense, no doubt is a question mark, but is is improving. And there is nothing better for a maturing defense, than a high-powered offense, that can demoralize opponents with quick scores by a stable of offensive weapons.

And the powers-that-be are catching on. The Gamecocks are a 21.5-point favorite at Vandy this Saturday. The smart money would be that Spurrier is just getting used to his much-anticipated toy, aka the prolific offense.

In the past Vanderbilt has proved to pose un-expected challenges, and embarrassment, for the Gamecocks. Credit Vandy for that.

But there is no better time than now for Spurrier to push the gas pedal is his new sports car. Let's watch to see if he gives this shiny new vehicle an all-point road test come Saturday.

Dr. Ben Carson will rally Republicans in Lexington County

Democrats fear Carson, as do some
establishment, Republicans. The US
desperately needs a hero; is it Carson?

Possible 2016 presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson is scheduled to be in Lexington.
The details are still being finalized, but the plans are for Carson to speak at a rally in Lexington County, a couple days before the Nov. 4 election.

Carson, is an attractive GOP presidential candidate, because the party has failed to field a Conservative, in the last two national elections. 

Carson worked his way up from poverty. He has also been very open in his criticism of President Barack Obama. Carson is an African-American, and very successful as a neurosurgeon.   

Obama has used race to empower himself, and shield himself from being fairly assessed for his, and the Democrat Party's, record of failure for six years. 

Carson could be especially effective in a presidential bid versus assumed Democrat Party nominee Hillary Clinton, who is from a wealthy family, and will have difficulty relating to many in her party. 

SCPSD will provide more details on this visit to South Carolina by Carson, as they are learned. 

Sanford's Gothic Drama triggers re-posting of Confession Anniversary

Is Sanford the Gothic Southern Tragedy,
or is there a more interesting chapter?

Mark Sanford is in the news almost every day. He is being asked to take anger management classes and told his "fiance" the wedding is off, via the media. This is one of the most-read posts since this site was launched. From June 24: 

Five-year anniversary of Sanford's THE CONFESSION!

There are a lot of people in South Carolina politics who still really believe in former Gov. Mark Sanford.

He's a very persuasive and attractive figure.

Sanford waltzed to election a year ago and is the US Rep. For SC - Dist. 1.

It's ironic that his name would be mentioned today. It's June 24, and Run-Off day, two weeks after the June 10 primaries.

It was a 2002 GOP Primary in which Sanford came from nowhere and took out former Lt. Gov. Bob Peeler, to win the Republican nomination for the governor's office.

Today is also the FIVE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY of THE CONFESSION.

I remember listening to, not watching, Sanford on a live press conference broadcast on WIS-TV in Columbia. It was the aftermath. 

The Governor could not be found. He had his press secretary tell everybody, including media, he was hiking The Appalachian Trail. Today that term is idiomatic.

But his political opponents had ferreted out his location, and told an eager-to-bust-him reporter that he was flying into Atlanta. The married-with-children governor had been with his lover, in Argentina.

“I've been unfaithful to my wife,” Sanford blurted out in the middle of a rambling monologue that matched his usual pedestrian oratory style. The room, and the second-half of his governorship, had been dull until he shocked the world.

Sanford, the silver-spooned Richard Cory, who walked a few inches above everybody else, had met the political equivalent of the fictional character created by Edwin Arlington Robinson.

If you meet Sanford, you may get the impression he values your opinion more than anyone else's. You could come away feeling he's the nicest, most genuine guy in the world.

Or you may get the opinion that he's petulant and pious, with that aforementioned Cory-esque air.

How he treats you may depend on what you can do for him.

Regardless of how you see Sanford, he is as interesting a character as there is in modern politics.

The biggest question now is: will Sanford one day burst from the bounds of the more-permissive SC First and pursue that once limitless potential that he squandered on weakness; or was it his boredom?

Or will he become the perpetual, small-voice re-elect to an ego-serving office, on a treadmill he once swore against?

Is he Richard Cory, or will he write the last half of the drama with a creativity that will jolt us as THE CONFESSION did five years ago today? 

Richard Cory 

By Edwin Arlington Robinson - 1869–1935

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,

We people on the pavement looked at him:

He was a gentleman from sole to crown,

Clean favored, and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,

And he was always human when he talked;

But still he fluttered pulses when he said,

"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich—yes, richer than a king—

And admirably schooled in every grace:

In fine, we thought that he was everything

To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,

And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;

And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,

Went home and put a bullet through his head. 

Georgia fans express on-line anger, give reasons after loss to South Carolina

Bad day for Bulldogs,
great day for Gamecocks. 

From the Georgia Bulldog Facebook page.

The name of the poster is first, followed by their comment regarding the USC-Georgia game,

Saturday.

Correll Pounds I don't post much here because I refuse to get involved with the day-to-day idiots (you know who you are) but I have to vent. I'm sure most of what I'll say has been said. I've been a diehard UGA fan for 45 years. I knew a week ago that this game would be just like it was -- I've seen this movie over and over again. Never bet on UGA in a big game. The difference is this ... Steve Spurrier is a motivator... Mark Richt is an administrator. End of story. If Richt knew what to do with all the talent he has, he'd have done it by now. Between cutting edge football and the vampire bus, he's over-matched by the top coaches in the profession......

James Ysrayl Jacobs Richt to busy tryna get his players into heaven that he done forgot how to get his players to win

Frank Paul you get a gift...and the most conservative team on earth has a thought besides handing the rock to their all-world running back...that's what separates Mark Richt from championships.....

Joey Horn I wish he would have head butted the refs Mari, they act a lot like you sort of mindless and not all there. It's pathetic

Prezton Grannt Season Over!

Prezton Grannt Huston Mason is garbage.

Prezton Grannt People keep talking about bad officiating the refs didn't miss the field goals the refs didn't not run Gurley on the 4 yard line dam excuses

Thomas Heller Wish Georgia had a coach who was involved in the game. You know one who might throw a hat or maybe his sunglasses or maybe even call a play! Georgia needs a coach who is not content with nine wins before the bowl

Chris Porter See ya at Outback or chik fil a bowl or maybe music city...typica

Tiffani Tidwell Mauldin I'm just not impressed with Mason's performance at all!! He has got a lot of work to do... definitely needs to work on his passing game! Ugh!!!

Mike Miller It wasn't Bobo's playing calling that did that... That was ALL, gurley. On that 3rd and long first down pickup.

Clint Meadows FIRE MIKE BOBO

Alan DeBenedittis Fire Obama

Jordan Kyle Steen Someone let richt know to just keep rotating the backs

Clint Meadows What a joke...this is flat embarsssing

Tasha Sterling Come on Dawgs!

Bobby Davis Obamo fired I love it

Barry Bales Layoff Mason. His first year. Bobo sucks. And Murray came back for selfish reasons. And did nothing

Clint Meadows Who runs it's on 3 and a mile you IDIOT!! There's high school coaches better than bozo's sorry ***

Mike Miller Mason's looking kind of dry. I GOT to see something out of him

Clint Meadows If bobo is so good then why hasn't he gone to head coach anywhere? Every offensive coordinators dream is to be a head coach somewhere..but nobody wants him cause he sucks..it's pitiful Georgia puts up with this

Democrats in SC bash African-American candidate, but praise white career politician

Green's the fastest runner, but not allowed
to win in a party with a strong history of
racial discrimination. 

Cassie Cope, of The State newspaper praises Democrat US Senate candidate Brad Hutto for his work ethic. Hutto is white. Cope says state Sen. Hutto “is a candidate who makes the Democratic Party proud.”

Cope, in a Sunday story, also said Black Democrat Alvin Greene, the 2010 Senate candidate, "embarrassed Democrats by winning their party’s nomination.”
Cope said Greene's Senate candidacy was a “debacle.”

But the white Democrat, Cope says: is “a Georgetown University-educated lawyer....”
In the article, Cope lauded Hutto for his 20 years as a career politician, while bashing Greene because he was "unemployed" at the time he was running for office.  

And while Democrats could not wait to get rid of Greene, Cope says: “Even if he loses in November, Hutto could find his way onto future statewide tickets.”

Democrats are "proud" of
White candidate Brad Hutto,
but called Black candidate
Greene, an embarrassment. 

Liberals are typically the most color-conscious group in politics, but how often do they express their true feelings about race, then publish it?
It is left to be seen if harsh words for the Black Democrat will have any backlash at the polls. Blacks typically vote for Democrats at a 95% rate, despite very little economic and social change for the rank-and-file Black American. In fact, the Hispanic community has passed African-Americans in numbers and attention, thanks to Democrat politicians needing more special interests to maintain their grip on power, federally.  

This is not the first time the subject of rejection of Greene man has surfaced in the Democrat Party.

In 2010, the white Democrat establishment wanted Vic Rawl to win its Senate primary in South Carolina. Democrats were so incensed when voters chose Greene, a protest was filed in an attempt to block the Black candidate's win. It was rejected after state election officials stepped in and ended the attack by a White Democrat on Greene.

Race is also an issue for Democrats in the 2014 Lt. Gov's race. There, a Black candidate is demanding his opponent quit a country club, because no African Americans want to be members. Ironically, the Democrat's White boss - a liberal Democrat, personal injury trial lawyer - is a member of the same club. But the Democrat candidate has no problem with the hypocrisy.  

The State news' Gamecock reporter says Georgia win not a big deal; problems, losses ahead!

The State's Josh Kendall
seems to have some pent up angst
that his prediction of a SC
loss did not materialize. 

Beating No. 6 Georgia not significant. Problems not solved, and trouble is awaiting Gamecocks, says USC beat reporter. 

Josh Kendall, USC Beat Reporter for the State newspaper, is discounting South Carolina's big 38-35 win over Georgia Saturday. Kendall, a Georgia grad, also predicted South Carolina would lose to Georgia.

In his Soundoff opinion piece Sunday, Kendall is spitting sour grapes. He implies beating Georgia was easy. The headline of his column reads: “Now comes the hard part for USC”
He said the Ga. win in no way means the "Gamecocks' problems are solved." 

Kendall writes: "The Gamecocks have beaten the SEC East champion (Georgia) before....but" he says just one, not very significant win is: "all that was accomplished.”

USC fans would beg to differ. SC got off the mat after being laid out by Texas A&M, and delivered a punch so severe, some Georgia fans are likely again calling for Bulldog Coach Mark Richt's head. The Head Ball Coach got 'em again. Do you know what this loss did to Georgia's self-image? It's not good. And that may be why Kendall is so transparent in his tirade. 

Spurrier put a mojo so strong on Georgia, some of them are likely at the root-worker's house this morning instead of church. It was a BIG win but Kendall says: "That the Gamecocks were expected to lose – and lose big – doesn’t matter now.”

WHAT?...It maters tremendously. Now EVERYTHING is back on the table for the Gamecocks.

But Kendall seems to be hoping there is a loss for SC in the next slate of opponents. He says: “What matters now are the next six games.”..... “Missouri is coming to town in two weeks and Auburn and Florida on the road,” He warns. 

Keep projecting losses for the Gamecocks Kendall, like you predicted Georgia would win. You're just wishful thinking at this point. Coach Spurrier said he will take one game at a time, and hopes to get better. Unlike Kendall, Spurrier believes SC has “got a chance.” And if you pit Kendall against Spurrier, I'll put my money on Spurrier any day. Kendall was WRONG about Georgia, so let's hope he is wrong about the visions of Gamecock loses that are now dancing in his head.

PS: The State newspaper has disallowed any links from this site to its comment section, even though it allows others. If you would, please link it. The State is prolific in its comments about Spurrier and the Gamecocks. Why do they not allow comments and analysis of their coverage?  

Gamecock offense clicks, best still possible, if Gamecocks can do two things

First beat Auburn, then avoid the upsets

Spurrier has to feel like "We got a chance." Spurrier was
beaming win Ga. win. CBS TV photo. 

The SC win over Georgia, almost wipes the slate clean for the Gamecocks. Everything is back on the table for South Carolina.

Offensively South Carolina is good. The 2014 SC offense is as good as any Head Ball Coach Steve Spurrier has fielded at the school. And it can get really good. With all of the WRs contributing, and the tight-end play, scoring looks a lot easier for the team than it used to be.

QB Dylan Thompson looks more comfortable with each rep he gets. 

And the O-line may finally be playing like a fine SEC unit. So the RBs, including Mike Davis, Brandon Wilds, Shon Carson and David Williams are a viable option to the pass.

But the Gamecocks have to go to Auburn Winning at Auburn will not be easy. The Tigers are good, and sound. Auburn is highly respected and highly ranked, with good coaches.
The Gamecocks D will have to keep improving. To beat Auburn, SC's current defense will have to mature more. It is making strides. The Auburn game is not until Oct. 25. That is time to grow up some.
The Tigers actually have SC's former defensive coordinator, Ellis Johnson.

Hopefully SC's current DC Lorenzo Ward knows enough about Johnson to help prepare the Gamecocks for Auburn's D.

But one can also contend that it will not be out of the question for SC to beat Auburn. “We got a chance,” is what Spurrier is fond of saying. And the Gamecocks “got a chance” versus Auburn. But SC must be more focused, especially on D.

Auburn got a lot of breaks in 2013. Will luck hold out?

Upsets

In the past the Gamecocks have been upset by Kentucky, Vandy and last year Tennessee. Those teams come to Columbia this year.

Florida is on the road, but it will be surprising if Florida is as much of a test as most consider it to be.

Gator Head Coach Will Muschamp is probably not the answer in Gainsville.

Bottom line: South Carolina beat Georgia. The fact that the Gamecocks have something to play for again, should renew the excitement of fans.  

Gamecock post-game report - Can USC ban CBS's Gary Danielson?

Dylan Thompson has a big night.
Goes 21-for-30. 

The smile on Steve Spurrier's face was as big as you've ever seen after the 38-35 win over Georgia.

The Gamecocks outplayed the Bulldogs and almost blew it in the end. Needing a break badly, Georgia missed its second FG of the night, late in the fourth quarter.

The Gamecocks O was as good. And it could be much better. Dylan Thompson is a keeper.

Georgia had a great RB in Todd Gurley, but SC had Mike Davis, and just as big in the end, Brandon Wilds. He took a third and long, with less than two minutes left, and made if fourth on two inches.

It was as Big a regular-season win in the Head Ball Coach career. It was obvious he really wanted it.

Defense was better, but has a long way to go. The D got Georgia off the field in the first half.

The defense had some spirit, but needs some more work. The mental effort and fire was there. It can get better. If it does, don't count this team out of anything, yet.

Who got the breaks?

SC got some breaks in the first half. Georgia actually got called for holding. That is rare, even though Ga. Holds a lot.

Gurley actually threw a couple punches, or at least pushes, and SC got flagged for it. That was an absurd call. And it was on a third-down stop.

In the second half, the officials flipped. SC got few breaks, but was victimized by some cut block calls, that were not really cut blocks.

CBS announcer for the SC-Ga. Gary Danielson was AWFUL.

He was obviously down when SC made a play, and upbeat, with a lilt in his voice when the Bulldogs did something good.
When the video of CBS showed that SC QB Dylan Thompson got the game-ending first-down, Dalielson said "No Way." He complained that the review process is not that precise. He was having a difficult time accepting that the game was virtually over, and Ga. would not get the ball back. 

Danielson credited some great plays by the Gamecocks to mistakes by Georgia.

He commented on the bruising, hard and extra effort run that Mike Davis was injured on, by saying Davis does not have the breakaway speed of the great Gurley.
Danielson was so busy layering praise on Gurley he did not notice SC's Brandon Wilds. Wilds plus Davis trumped Gurley, especially on Wilds' last, almost first-down, but set up, run.  

When it was obvious that SC would pull it out, Danielson warned Gamecocks fans not to get any ideas about the SEC-East. He scolded that Georgia only has Florida at a neutral site, and Auburn at home, whereas SC has to go to Auburn and Florida.

Either Danielson or almost as bad booth-mate Verne Lindquist complained about an eight-hour day. He said, as the clock ran down, it was not very fun.

If I don't go to the game again, and CBS broadcasts it, I'll get a radio with a delay so I can listen to the Gamecock announcers.

What can we learn about the Gamecocks if Georgia wins?

If South Carolina fails to defeat Georgia Saturday, it may send some panic through the minds of the

This photo was taken about 7:30 a.m. Saturday. Fans were already
parking and scalpers were in full-deal mode. It's a BIG game for
many reasons, with lots of story lines. Get ready!

fans.

Will a loss to the Bulldogs mean SC Head Coach Steve Spurrier's program-building project has peaked? Are three-in-a-row 11-win seasons the pinnacle?

The Gamecocks lost to Georgia last year, in Athens. And South Carolina began this season with an embarrassing 52-28 loss to Texas A&M.

Have the bad ol' days come back to Columbia? Fans may begin to fear that, on a larger scale, if South Carolina cannot take care of a team that it has come to expect to beat, at home.

Also: Will a loss to Georgia mean Mike Davis' best performances are behind him? The highly talented RB needs to be close to, or be better-than, the Bulldogs' Todd Gurley, today.

Another question, if Georgia wins, will surface.

Did the Gamecocks squander the success of All-World Jadeveon Clowney, by not using him as a calling-card to attract top-notch talent on defense? 

Are there not enough good players on D to beat a good football opponent? If so, why? 

Will a loss, especially if it can be pinned on the D, mean that 2014 is already a bust, compared to the previous three years?

And will a Georgia loss mean that the Gamecocks have the wrong coaches on defense, with the only option being to tread water until the end of the season to make needed, and overdue changes?

Is 2014 a chance to extend the Spurrier success, or a rebuilding year?

After the Georgia game, we should know a lot more?  

Mark Sanford seems surprised at the mess walking out is causing in his life

What did Sanford expect?
Taking the wrong path, often results
in an even more difficult life. 

Sanford publishes the 2^nd Book of Mark on Facebook

In a long, and tortured Faebook diatribe, US Rep. Mark Sanford laments the treatment from his ex-

wife, as if he is trying to write an addendum to the New Testament.

Sorry, there is already a Book of Mark in the Bible.

Sanford drones on about being summoned to court, publicly embarrassed, losing family property and custody of his children, settlement disagreements, and general contempt for the ex.

When he took up with another woman, and cheated with her, what did he expect the result to be?

Jenny Sanford may be a lot of things, but she is not stupid. And she's not meek.

He threw the first punch, and he threw it hard. The fact that she is reacting should not be a surprise. Violate any contract, and the victim is liable to exact what is legally available to him of her.

What is baffling, in his long-verse is Sanford's references to Scripture. There are actions one can take that taint all that one does from that point on. Ripping apart your holy vow before God, walking out on your kids and shacking with the GF fits that category. Especially when you were the governor, setting an example for all to see. It is startling that Sanford does not understand the wages of his sin.

While Sanford is not short on self-pity, he fails to understand what happens when you decide you want out of a marriage, or a contract.

There are likely thousands of “Average-Joes” in South Carolina who can tell the esteemed former governor, that's how it is.

One other aspect of Sanford's treatise. All of those words are personal problems. Us people out here in the real world have enough trouble digesting the minutiae of our own lives. We feel for you bro, kinda. But we have our own problems.

So I'll tell you like they’d tell us: “Tell to the judge.”

You're a man who has been given an un-common, privileged lifestyle by first your parents, then by those in South Carolina. But it seems you are having a difficult time when the system, and the people you have severely hurt and damaged, ask you to react in a way common to anyone else who did what you did.

Suck it up. You made this bed, now lie in it. That's what any parent would tell you, if the parent had your best developmental interests in mind. Maybe that is what God is trying to get across to you, too, if you'd just listen.  

A story about a fictitious Mr. Sanford, after the tryst

Ever know a guy in your neighborhood when you were a kid who was a friend's dad.

I'm a gall-darn good-lookin' man.
And I'm still a playa. 

The story is fairly common and goes like this.

You know the man as the father of his children, and a husband. Until one day the bombshell drops that he's been cheating with another woman.

It blows everybody's mind. All the mothers in the block are talking about it, and they throttle down to a whisper, or hush, when a child walks into the room.

We've all seen it. He leaves the house for that fresher set of linen.

The most lasting part of it, is when you become college aged, and you're hanging out in the local dive. Mr. Sanford walks in, 25 years older than everybody else, acting like he's one of the guys from campus. He comes up to you, slaps you on the back, and says: “How ya' doing?” Then, as you nervously look for someplace to hide your beer, a girl in one of your classes walks up, and you figure out she's with Mark, your childhood friend's former father.

“Meet my fiance,” Mark says. You blush a little, and shake her hand.

He's all smiles, at ease shootin' the breeze, like he's 21.

You're not so comfortable with it, very nervous.

Mr. Sanford used to be the go-to father. He waxed authoritative on the virtues of family, and responsibility. His father worked, hard, and left him set. And he preaches that to you.

So when he brings his little prize into the bar, you're uptight, feeling a little out-of-balance, not knowing how to place Mr. Sanford in this role.

Of course he has had no problem in transition from pontificator to fornicator.

You're just praying his son does not walk in, to make it more creepy than it already is.

Five years down the line, you see Mr. Sanford again. The fiance thing didn't work out. And the harshness of the life outside his family, is showing all over Sanford's face.

Shots, and the next party, have for years taken the place of Dixie Youth Baseball games, and trips to the fun park's batting cage, like he used to do when you knew him.

Mr. Sanford, was such a handsome man, is not so much anymore. Age is moving on him fast.

He stands around, using dirty words with girls half his age, not seeing them mimic a gag reflex. You see, in his mind, Mr. Sanford is still that young handsome dad you used to know at the community pool, when you and his son were in fifth grade. Not a lecherous, old creep, trying to convince everybody that he is somebody special, as he orders another belt to help him take some years from his mind.

Editor's Note: All characters used in this account are fictitious and for the purpose of entertainment. Any similarities to actual people are totally coincidental, and intended. 

Trial lawyer hinting at insanity for child murderer

Is a trial lawyer setting up an insanity plea?

“Timothy Ray Jones Jr., 32, has been treated for mental health problems in the past, his attorney Aimee Zmroczek said. She would not specify what sort of treatment or problems he has had,” according to the Associated Press.

Anybody with any sense at all knows this man is crazy. You'd have to be to kill your five children.

His attorney also said: “He is being portrayed as a monster. He is just a man and is trying to deal with this situation," she said. “He is scared and simply wants someone to guide him through the process,” said the AP. 

I'm sure his children were scared when they figured out what their father was doing to them.

His fear, or clams of insanity, should not make any difference. It is repulsive that after he took the lives of the five precious children God gave him, that a slick attorney is already testing a loophole to spare Jones' life.

Jones should be tried immediately. There is a confession, so guilt is not debatable. And there is NO reason that can be offered in Jones' defense.

Anti-death penalty liberals argue that the the death penalty does not reduce the murder rate.

If killers were tried quickly, condemned by the public, then executed, it has to have an affect on other would-be killers.

As it is, the trail lawyer industry is fat and filthy rich getting a lighter sentence for heinous criminals. In some cases, brutal killers attract a cult following of sick potential copy cats.

There should be NO legal maneuvering to deny justice to this animal.

Give Jones a chance to ask God to save his soul, then move on with the will of the majority of the people.

If this murderer is allowed to legally finagle some sort of deal, any judge, prosecutor or politicians related to it, needs to be removed from office.

And we, as voters, should keep our eyes open to make sure the law is carried out. We all lose when justice is perverted. 

Media already exploiting child murders for a political end

Jones is the murderer, not DSS
or Gov. Nikki Haley.

While South Carolinians, sick with grief, mourn, media wastes no time trying to aid Democrats.

The media, liberals, and their politicians, have told us they can solve the ailing nature of societal sin through a welfare agency, and nanny-state social workers. Christians and Conservatives know that government intervention will never cure the disease triggered by hedonism, non-accountability and irresponsibility.

Friday's The State newspaper: “The children were not removed from Jones’ custody. The Social Services caseworker wrote there was “not enough to arrest (the) father.”

Social Services officials said Thursday the embattled agency, which reports directly to Gov. Nikki Haley, has begun a review of its involvement.”

And so the BLAME GAME Begins. And will it end in electing Democrat Vincent Sheheen as governor?

It seems sick, and sad that it has to be said, but justice screams for this to be voiced.

The media is trying to use the murder of five innocent children to blame the S.C. Department of Social Services (DSS) and Gov. Nikki Haley and elect Democrat Vincent Sheheen. Will it work? Who knows?

Because we have people in our society diseased with selfishness, and pop culture pursuits, championed by the left, they are a danger to the precious children they have been given.

A sick, drug-using man, who has an adultery-prone wife and a delusional father who raised him, kills his five children.

During the first news conference in Lexington, Wednesday, a day after the news broke, the media had already begun to badger the Department of Social services for answers.

Before this horrible tragedy, the media and Democrats had already been trying to use DSS to weaken the Republican governor.

The bottom line is: The same liberals and media who demand freedom to use drugs, and the rights of parents, no matter how bad, are the same crowd now trying to pin these hideous child murders on their political enemies.

The tragedy is already so disturbing it's difficult to accept. But leave it to the media and the Democrat political establishment pushing them, to drop this deeply troubling episode to a level so low, it's nauseating.

While decent people recoil from the evil this individual exacted upon his own children, liberals, Democrats, and their media are busy in the gruesome task of trying feed their political power by exploiting it.

Expect Gamecocks to beat Georgia Saturday

Spurrier IS Sir Big Spur. And Gamecock
fans have learn to depend on him in games
like Saturday's game versus Georgia.  

Despite the oddsmakers' predictions, the Gamecocks should beat Georgia, Saturday.

There are few chances to play on a stage like the platform SC will be offered in this week's game.

The Gamecocks are a six-point underdog to the Bulldogs, but fans don't buy that, and they shouldn't.

The Gamecocks are a team that has looked bad in Coach Steve Spurrier's last three years, but it has been very rare that the team has under-achieved, especially at home.

And it will have to come in unprepared, again, on a very national and judgmental stage to lose to Georgia. That is not likely based on what we know about the Head Ball Coach. His teams have looked bad before, but still turned around and figured out how to win big games.

What is baffling, is that Texas A&M was able to rout the Gamecocks on Aug. 28. That loss is still hard to understand.

And even in the 52-28 A&M debacle, if SC could have mustered just three more stops, and not dropped a sure TD, it would have pulled that game out. But it didn't.

And for that failure, the football world has turned its back on the Gamecocks. The program that has been one of the winningest in the country of late, is now diving in the polls, spat upon by Vegas and considered a probable “W” by some future opponents.

The reason SC is now the scourge is because of a defense that has looked lost and of mediocre talent.

It took so much to get to where it was, and so little to topple it. But disparage the Gamecocks at your own risk.

The loss to the Aggies, as ugly as it was, is not enough to bury the Gamecocks versus Georgia.

The defensive players will have a charged and large partisan crowd on fire behind them on Saturday afternoon. That will be a huge factor.

That defense knows every eye is on it. And every successful play will bring an eruption of euphoria. That's a very addictive motivator. Gamecock ticket holders should be very anticipatory.

Aside from that, the Gamecocks know what is at stake. This is the season for the team. Lose this, and the same, old jackals are waiting to pounce. And Spurrier knows that and that will push him.

And I'd take odds on Spurrier, versus those who want his failure, any day.

That old coach lives for a stage like this. It ill be a big surprise if he does not slap back his detractors, to the delight of those who are on his side.

Vice, crime and irresponsibility, all factors in child murderer's life

The 60s drug culture,
claimed peace and love as its
basis. That was not true.
It's more closely related  to
evil and irresponsibility. 

Timothy Jones, 32, killed his five children, ages 8, 7, 6, 2 and 1.

Facts are slowly trickling out about the horrible act.

As information leaks out, we can ask God to please let those with open hearts and minds take note of the danger posed by commonly accepted practices of the worldly.

First, we leaned that Jones' wife of 10 years, Amber Jones 28, had been accused of an improper relationship with a 19-yer-old neighbor. She had also been accused of neglecting her children in a DSS complaint, before the Joneses divorced.

Interim Lexington County Sheriff Lewis McCarty, called Amber Jones, who did not have custody of her children, a “very sweet lady.”

On Wednesday, Jones' father, Tim Jones Sr. warned people not to make a judgment on his son.

"He is not the animal that he will be portrayed through the media,” Jones Sr. said. “Our little Tim a very loving father, brother and son.”

Tim Jones Jr., the Lexington transplant form a suburb of Chicago was arrested in Mississippi on Saturday and had drug-related paraphernalia in his vehicle. He seemed to be under the influence of drugs, police said. Police found blood and childrens clothes in his SUV.

Jones Jr. when he was 19, was arrested for a cocaine possession charge in March of 2001, in Illinois. Later that year he was charged with stealing a car, burglary and passing forged checks, according to criminal records in Illinois. Jones has also been discharged, early from the Navy

Tim Jones Sr., admitted his son had a criminal record, but he made light of it.

“Typical teenager doing stupid stuff, that's about it," Tim Jones Sr. told the Associated Press from his home in Amory, Mississippi.

Tim Jones Jr. had a wife who allegedly fooled around. He had a penchant for illegal drugs and a father that seems to be delusional. There may be a picture developing here before our eyes.

Of course, nothing can explain why Tim Jones killed his precious five children, unless he is the Devil himself.

But there is no mention of any church in his life, his father seems out-of-touch with reality, and there is no accountability aimed at the mother of the children. Tim Jones vowed mate for life, seemed to be devoted to her personal pursuits, more than tending to the welfare of her children.

When media fails to lay out the secular and pop culture items that surrounded Tim Jones, it is no wonder that it is difficult to fit all the pieces together.

All of the societal diseases that oft-ridiculed social conservatives rail against were prevalent in Jones' life before he murdered his five children.

Until we focus on the rot of our culture, and are honest about the danger, without apologies, why should we not expect to see more Tim Joneses?

Can Gamecocks revisit South Carolina vs Georgia, 2000?

It was Sept. 9, 2000, a beautiful day at Williams-Brice Stadium. The No. 9, SEC-East favorite, Georgia Bulldogs were in town. The Gamecocks had ended a 21-game losing streak week before by beating New Mexico State, 31-0. That win, began the process to rid the ghosts of the Brad Scott era. He had left the program in a shambles for Lou Holtz to take over.

But Georgia was no NMS. The Bulldogs were national title contenders.

Phil Petty, USC QB, 2000. 

Derek Watson, scores a
TD vs Georgia, 2000. 

The Gamecocks were lead by QB Phil Petty and RB Derek Watson. The Bulldogs, were lead by Quincy Carter, who was billed as an All-World QB. Carter was intercepted five times that day, and his Heisman hopes flew out the window, as SC rolled to a 21-10 win.

Georgia defensive lineman Richard Seymour, who played at Lower Richland High School, attacked the ragtag band that flattened his high-riding, elite football team.

“It’s tough losing to an inferior team,” Seymour said in newspaper report. “This is devastating.”

Seymour's comments certainly did not do anything to add to his team's reputation for class.

The win was an eye-opening jewel in a 8-4 Gamecock season. It was one of the biggest turnarounds for any team in the history of college football.

On Saturday, the Gamecocks face a similar task. The Bulldogs are heralded as an All-World team. Georgia is favored ranked ahead of SC, with no intention of letting an “inferior team” as many Bulldog fans view South Carolina, blemish their record.

The question is: Will South Carolina play with the heart it mustered on that sunny September day in 2000?

It may be a good idea for the SC coaching staff to find some film encapsulating that game, and let the 2014 version of the Gamecocks see what happens when the underdog wants the bone, more than the Bulldog.  The result can be exhilarating for Gamecock fans. 

The numbers and the South Carolina or Georgia game

South Carolina is a home underdog to Georgia. The two teams play at 3:30, Saturday in Columbia.
Head Coach Steve Spurrier is 5-0-1 in his last six games as a home underdog. Georgia Coach Mark Richt is 2-6-1 against the spread against Spurrier at South Carolina.
In 14 of the last 17 meetings of SC vs Ga., neither team has scored has scored more than 20 points. Only once did the number get to 20, in those 14 games.
South Carolina is a six-point underdog. A lower score favors the dog with a higher spread because the lower the spread, the harder it is for one team to jump out way ahead.
But remember, the Gamecocks had an 18-game home win streak before Texas A&M erased that.
At one point SC was a four-point favorite, but the Gamecocks bled a lot of respect because the of the 52-28 thrashing the team took from Texas A&M on opening night.  

The role of the wife and mother in the Lexington child murder case

This horrible tragedy of five murdered children in Lexington is a good time to look at the woman's role in society, and start demanding better from the worst of them.

Too many women are placed in a position as the recipient of sympathy, no matter what they do.  

Current American culture is vicious toward men. Ray Rice was essentially banned from the NFL for punching his fiance. And a cavalcade of media wants more blood for the abuse of Rice. There are demands that the NFL commissioner be fired, because he did not act severely enough, soon enough.

And Tim Jones, who killed his five children in Lexington, is rightly seen as a demon. And that is fair. We all hope our justice system executes the just penalty, unblocked by criminal-friendly, appeal-filing trial lawyers. 

But what responsibility do women have in society for their actions?

Tim Jones, was distraught over what he believed was his wife’s “inappropriate relationship” with a 19-year-old neighbor in 2012, according to court records.

Amber Jones, 28, and Tim Jones were married 10 years. The marriage ended last fall with a divorce because of allegations of Amber Jones' affair. She was also charged in a complaint with neglecting her children, the court records state.

Amber Jones was investigated by DSS for alleged neglect of her children in September of 2011.

In a report filed by the husband, Tim Jones said his wife “had not been taking care of the house or the kids. Mrs. Jones did not clean their home or feed the children in an acceptable manner,” a report in The State newspaper says.

Marriage is a contract that goes two ways. But women seemed to be given a pass when they fail to hold up their end of the deal. Has the feminist movement so vilified men, that women don't have responsibility?

If wife abuse is a major issue in America, and it is, what about women who cheat, or fail to attend properly to their children?

It's about time we implement gender equality. Cheating, drug-using and child-neglecting wives are a disease to our families. And this sickening case in Lexington is a horrific example what decadent behavior gone bad can result in.

Good mothers, and accountable wives, know what sacrifices have to made. It about time these bad women are called out for the harm they do to our society.

South Carolina and Georgia - roles are reversed this year

Can SC contain Gurley?
He cannot be allowed to
run free. 

About a year ago, Georgia was sitting at home waiting for South Carolina to come, after losing to a team they had owned for years. In its loss to Clemson of the ACC, Georgia gave up 38 points and could not stop the Tigers when they needed to.

In 2013, the Gamecocks were going to Athens, 1-0 of winning versus UNC of the ACC, to play a team that had its star RB nursing an injury. Georgia, needed a win desperately, and beat the Gamecocks 41-30.

Fast-forward to 2014, and the role for each team is reversed.

South Carolina was embarrassed in its first game to a team it was favored to beat.

Georgia is coming off a home, season-opening win versus Clemson of the ACC.

In the position Georgia was in a year ago, South Carolina played one of its worse games on defense, of the year. The Gamecocks left receivers wide open, and could not stop Todd Gurley, who was hurt a lot in 2013, but he played the whole game versus SC.

On offense, QB Conner Shaw had a rare fumble, in a key situation. The Gamecocks also had a late failure to score from inside the five-yard-line. 

This year, like Gurley was last year, Gamecock RB Mike Davis could be a big factor in the game. If Davis can stay in the game, and eat up clock with yards to go along with it, Gurley will cool on the sidelines.

Word is Davis is enthusiastic, and ready to play in a BIG game.

The bigger question is: Is SC's defense up to the task?

If Georgia has to run to move the ball, that may be a better set up for South Carolina. It's the pass defense that has looked so awful versus Texas A&M. But the secondary did have two INTs versus ECU.

Regardless of how it plays out, the Gamecocks need to channel the same force Georgia was able to harness in 2013. If SC can treat the Bulldogs, as the Gamecocks were treated in Athens in 2013, it will be a good day for the home team.