Thursday, February 22, 2007

Discipline: Carolina Style

The University of South Carolina, one of the teams that gave us this image:
and was the victim of a player looting session, and who had a quarterback arrested during the season last year, has learned its lesson. Four days after star recruit Stephen Garcia was arrested for "intense beer consumption and belief in his own invisibility," disciplinarian Mr. Shiny Pants has lifted the suspension imposed on Garcia. That's the way to send a message. You're suspended until your hangover subsides or you are released from jail.

How can any program other than the other notoriously lax, yet stupendously successful programs (Florida, Tennessee, Florida State, Oklahoma) compete with such a hard driving boss as Spurrier? Georgia's starting center will miss at least six games this year partly because he passed out on the toilet in an Athens restaurant. Garcia threatens a police officer and is suspended from running for four days. Looks like Spurrier is starting to dole out the same punishments that made Lou Holtz the complete totalitarian that he was. Spurrier needs to learn to drop the hammer on these evildoers, just like he dropped the hammer on the Dawgs with double reverse passes with three minutes left in a game he was winning by 40. I would write more but my eyes are bleeding because of that last sentence.