New Clemson Basketball Coach Brad Brownell

The latest news out of Clemson South Carolina is that Brad Brownell is the new Clemson Tiger head basketball coach. Coach Brownell has led his former team Wright State to four consecutive 20 win seasons and has averaged 21 wins per season in the past 8 years according to tigerillustrated.com. Clemson fans seemed to be very excited about this new hire, even though i dont think this was the hire everybody had in mind. We will see if Coach Brownell can hang in the toughtest conferences in NCAA basketball.

Clemson and Carolina Baseball Update

The #11 Carolina Gamecocks travel to  #20 Vandy this weekend. The Gamecocks are 22-6 overall and 7-2 in the SEC. The #16 Clemson Tigers venture to Duke this weekend. The Tigers are 20-8 overall and 9-3 in the ACC.

Who's Down With OPP? Not Clemson.

If you have not heard the news yet, Head Coach of Clemson Baseskeball Oliver Purnell has left and went to DePaul, signing a 7 or 10 year contract for $15 million dollars.  Why did Oliver Purnell leave an up and coming Clemson team that plays in the toughest conferrence in the nation? We all now that Clemson is mainly a football college and then many people would say Clemson baseball would be next then followed by basketball. Maybe Oliver just wanted to get out of Clemson and this was the most opportune time to do so. Coach Purnell brought Clemson from being down in the ACC to one of the top 5 teams, he just could not get them over the hump in the NCAA Tournement. Purnell was 0-3 in leading Clemson out of the first round of the tournement. Even thought i hate to see him leave maybe it is just the best thing for both Clemson and Coach Purnell. Clemson fans, lets just hope we get a better coach than Purnell because he was a good one.

Clemson and Carolina Baseball

With Clemson ranked #16 and with an overall record of 18-6 have fallen 4 spots and went 1-4 last week. Carolina ranked #12 with an overall record of 19-5 have moved up 2 spots and went 3-1 last week. With the Clemson Tigers taking on Coastal Carolina this weekend, Clemson is looking to move up in the College Baseball rankings and improve their overall record. Carolina on the other hand is taking on The Citadel, which both coaches are looking to reach a milestone in their coaching career. The coach for The Citadel is looking to be the most winningest coach in The Citadel history, and coach Tanner is looking to get his 600th win.

Steven Garcia VS. Connor Shaw

According to the head football coach at the University of South Carolina Steve Spurrier, there will be two quarterbacks ready to play if the other does not play the way the coaches ask. In Carolinas first spring scrimmage on Saturday Conner was 8-13 passing for 120 yards with one touchdown, and one touchdown was dropped. Spurrier said that was one of the best thrown post patterns he has seen since he started at USC. On the otherhand Garcia was 6 or 15 for 88 yards with a touchdown and an interception. Garcia is coming into the 2010 football season as the starting quarterback, but as he has proven before, Garcia has failed to produce what Spurrier wants in a quarterback. So which quarterback will prevel over the other?

Shall We Dance?

Ready for it or not March Madness is upon us. The Clemson Tigers a number 7 seed facing the number 10 seeded Missouri Tigers. Clemson has had some trouble the past couple of years getting past that first round game, but who knows this might be the year that they make it over the hump (I really just sounded like a Carolina fan). To bring up my next topic the South Carolina Gamecocks did not make the NCAA Tournement or the NIT this year. Devan Downey did not lead the Gamecocks to the promise land like EVERY Carolina fan thought that he would. The NCAA Tournement start this Thursday, with the opening game being played tonight. If you have not already printed off your bracket for the tournement here is a link that you can go to and print it off. http://www.chiff.com/recreation/sports/ncaa-brackets.htm.

Not Such a Happy Ending for South Carolina's Devan Downey.

Devan Downey has to be the most overrated player in the NCAA. I am so tired of hearing Carolina fans say Devan Downey is the best player and he should win the award for the most outstanding college basketball player. Downey to me is the biggest ball hog i have ever seen, he takes about 85% of the shots during a game. I hope if a player took that many shots in a game he would average almost 30 points per game. I really don't think Devan Downey has ever heard of an assist. I will say that he is a scrapy player, with 272 steals in a 3 year period, that is a crazy number. I still do not think he is the best player to ever play for the Gamecocks. With Alabama coming in and spoiling Devan Downey's senior night (witch i absolutly loved), the hopes for an NCAA Tournement birth went down the tollet last night. The Gamecocks will have to win 3 straight games in the SEC Tournement next week just to have a shot of making it. I know i'm making some Gamecock fans mad, but this is just what I think. Carolina just needs to become more of a TEAM.

T- Together
E- Everyone
A- Achieves
M- More