Bro, I was there man. Lol
My ex chick was attending SC at that time and she was a tutor for Hershel Dennis, so I had first hand access to SC, playboy. All my homies from the hood are SC fans, and some left their outta town teams to become SC fans (and I make sure to remind them of that flaky chit daily).
I was literally on their campus dang near every day w/o being a student. Chit, one day I was in their library doing my homework for my school and they were trying to kick me out and my homie Chris McFoy put a stop to it. Lol.
I got stories upon stories about SC from 00-07. Lol. It just sucked b/c as USC was ascending, my Canes were descending and I couldn’t brag and they were rubbing that in my face for a good 3 yr period.
But no lie, during that time, I would hear all these kids come from all over to come to SC......as students!! Why? B/c young kids like being associated with what’s cool, and winning is cool. Yes, SC is a great school, but UCLA was dominating applications during the 90’s. During the early 2000’s, SC was smashing UCLA w applications! (Could be that SC started to be a little more lenient w their acceptance rate, as well)
We used to be cool, bro. That’s y the student application increased exponentially when we started winning. We looked cool on the field, and we were cool winning. We gotta start being a cool school again, and that’s winning, my g.
I got an opinion with some things Richt will and won’t allow that make us feel a little boring on the field, but that’s a different topic. As long as we win, as long as we do our parts in getting these boys paid cash $ in the NFL draft, as long as Mr Gooddell start saying “And with the 5th; w the 8th, with 10th pick of the draft, the NFL team selects Player FROM THE U” w consistency, we won’t have to worry about losing nobody to bum schools.