Notes leading up to the UGA game..

First of all, MTSU couldn't pull it off but man what a great showing against a team like Louisville. Now for the Gamecock notes that I have gathered this week:

- Spurrier announced officially today that Mitchell would be the starter.

- He is confident in Beecher if Mitchell goes bad.

- Garcia is the third guy if both go bad. He wants to redshirt Garcia and I think it will happen unless Mitchell and Beecher are injured or just plain terrible. He said that if Garcia did have to play, it may give Carolina a little edge because he knows that UGA isn't gonna prepared to face a QB like Garcia. He was referring to Garcia's ability to scramble and take off with the ball if he has to.

- Emanuel Cook may play if cleared by the doc. Spurrier said that he is one of the best players on the team. Nix said that Cook and Jasper are the best tacklers on the team and if Cook would have played last Saturday, at least 5 of the missed tackles would not have happened.

- Mark Richt said that today's UGA practice was "sloppy." The excuse that the players gave was that they were tired. Richt said that they should not be tired this early in the season.

- Spurrier said that we are a great practice team and if we played the game like we practice, we will be fine. Unfortunately that isn't always the case during the game. Spurrier said "we have to take it to the ball field."

- Spurrier said that he has added some new material to his playbook for UGA. It has also been rumored that the Gamecock offense only showed about 20% of their playbook against LA Lafayette. It has also been rumored that the Gamecocks have practiced solely for the UGA game for 3 weeks with the exception of the last 2 practices before the season to focus on LA Lafayette. These 2 rumors came from a very good source. I think Spurrier was holding back some with Culliver. Who knows what he has up his sleeve!

Just a few optimistic notes. What do you guys think? Good post on the Gamecocks by the way bro. I certainly hope you are right. I'm trying to be as optimistic about it as you are. Trouble in the redzone was not the problem though. I could easily see why you would think that though with the decent offensive stats. We were 4 for 4 in the redzone but we kind of sat on the ball and wore down the clock. Would be nice if we got that chance against UGA.. lol. I'm just ready for Saturday to see how it turns out!