Yes but everyone has weak spots on their OL

outside of a select few schools like LSU, Bama, SoCal, ect. And Carolina has one of those SEC defenses that you speak of that can exploit weaknesses. Somewhere in there it balances out. All I'm saying is that all teams will have trouble with injuries. That's why you have depth and I believe Carolina has it now. They didn't before last year.

As far as Lattimore and Clowney go sure they are great players. It may take the state of SC a while to churn out another player like them. But now I bring you back to losing Lattimore half way through the season. We won 5 of our last 6 games without him. Clowney was a freshman last year and yes he made some big plays but was he a game changer as freshman? I would be willing to bet that we would have won the same amount of games without him last year. The way we rotate our DL it wouldn't have been a big deal. We still had Ingram. Speaking of Ingram, he was probably our best player on the whole team last year. Guess where he was from? North Carolina. We recruit a lot of good players out of Ga, Fl, and NC. As a matter of fact 9 of the 22 starters on our team are from out of state. That's one more than Clemson. We have just got our better players from instate lately. I guess that's where the myth comes from that we don't recruit well out of state.

As far as the changes at Clemson, that sounds great. Sounds like they have some big things going on there. Sure if you can make up the difference of the TV contracts with booster money that's great. I think what Plyler was saying is that South Carolina, UGA, and most of the other SEC schools get the TV contract money and the booster money. They don't have to make up for what they don't get from TV money with booster money. The SEC schools just start out with a big head start, that's all.

I do think Clemson will be better off with a new AD. I'm not sure a lot of the boosters wanted to give money to a athletic dept that was under his control. Not sure I blame them.

South Carolina started a big capital campaign right after Spurrier started and it really has made a difference. One other reasons Tanner was chosen for the AD job is because he is familiar with the ongoing campaign and they know he can get the $$$ from the boosters with the clout he holds amongst the Gamecock faithful. The man is pretty much an idol and they will give anything he wants.

Less than 3 weeks away bro! Probably before Carolina is upset by Vandy and Clemson the same by AU LOL. J/k bro, I think both our teams will be fine this season.