THE CORRECTIONS: 4/18/08
Tuesday’s “Coaches in Media” report incorrectly identified Arizona State head coach Dennis Erickson as the face of the Dos Equis “The Most Interesting Man In The World” campaign. As of press time, Coach Erickson is not affiliated with Dos Equis in any professional capacity. We regret the error.
Our Wednesday profile piece on Mike Patrick described his hobbies as baking, reading the early poetry of Wordsworth, and rubbing his dirty underwear on public drinking fountains when no one is looking. One of these is inaccurate; we regret the error.
A Monday night editorial took the position that University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow would make a terrible companion in an adventure film, as his do-gooder nature would press him to ensure that any treasure discovered under the sea/in the desert/in the jungle would make its way to the descendants of worthy indigenous peoples and not to finance a sweet houseboat. Upon being informed of Mister Tebow’s medical prowess, however, it is the position of the EDSBS staff that his skill in dressing and suturing field wounds would prove invaluable and that his squinty blue eyes would look totally boss gazing into the distant sunset on the one-sheet. We regret the error. He’s so dreamy! In an unforgiving, all-slaughtering Christian gladiator kind of way–ed.
Tuesday’s Curious Index identified the Zodiac Killer as former UCLA coach Terry Donohue. This is inaccurate, as we all know it was Lil’ Red. We regret the error.

Because man is the most dangerous animal…
Wednesday’s bulletin stating that the Iowa Hawkeyes have canceled spring practices was inaccurate. The management, while standing by our reporter’s account of empty locker rooms and silent practice fields, concedes that it is possible there may exist players not yet arrested or dismissed from the team, perhaps frightened by strangers into hiding under benches. We regret the error.
A dispatch from South Carolina’s spring practices on Thursday stated, “There is evil there that does not sleep. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire, ash, and dust. The very air you breathe is a poisonous fume.” This is a passage from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings, and was improperly attributed to the city of Columbia instead of the hellish inferno of Mordor. We regret the error.

Mordor’s architecture is far superior. We regret the error.
In Tuesday’s “The People In Your Neighborhood” interview, a Starbucks barista who regularly serves Washington Huskies coach Ty Willingham recounted his stormy dissatisfaction with the chain’s new Pikes Place brew. This was based on false information and bad sourcing. A spokeswoman for the UW athletic department released a statement stating that while Coach Willingham is not a fan of the lighter roast, he recognizes that the baristas can only do so much with the quality of beans available to them. We regret the error.












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Oh my bad. I was pretty sure this was a football blog. But since you have no legs to stand on there, you’re changing the subject to another sport. Wait, isn’t that what you just accused me of?
And you would give up every single win in the history of your baseball program to get the very next win over us in football. So shut it.
Comment by tha_snazzle — April 22, 2008 @ 11:20 pm
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Snaggle - you’re like Duke during football season when they yell “Basketball, Basketball!” when someone is clobbering them in the in-season sport. How’s that baseball team coming along?
Comment by Out of Conference — April 22, 2008 @ 3:07 pm
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offcampus: “Coop’s bitter that his constant wearing of hot pants didn’t even turn Tommy’s head. Oh, and the hilarious collapse in the first round of the NCAA’s. Who didn’t see that coming?”
Yeah, I bet Odumb and the boys really enjoyed watching it on hi-def on their nice cozy couches at home.
It’s a good thing you didn’t have to worry about making any travel plans to go see any games, or you might have missed it.
Comment by tha_snazzle — April 22, 2008 @ 12:59 pm
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Holly,
Of course you have no particular feeling about their football program. They have beaten you once since the Taft administration.
I’m pretty sure they’ve only beaten us like four times in that same timespan. In a way it’s great having them as a rival, because they always think they’re going to be great, then suck. And lose to Clemson. You know how Florida State can’t beat you right now? It’s like that, except all the time.
Comment by tha_snazzle — April 22, 2008 @ 12:52 pm
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Coop,
You appear to be a really unhappy person. Why all the vitriol?
You can get off your “high Clemson horse.”
Anyone from South Carolina has family, friends, etc. that went to either SC or Clemson. I can hate Clemson on the days they play SC and I can even pull against them against everyone else, but I don’t hate people that pull for Clemson. My uncle, co-workers, etc. are Clemson fans.
To think that Clemson is “better” is ridiculous. You can have your rankings, etc. but your argument appears to be centered on your pure, unadulterated hate for everything USC.
Comment by Mike — April 21, 2008 @ 10:00 am
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“The Dude is obviously not an attorney. ”
Coop - not everyone makes a living by liking to argue. Some of us actually learn a skill and use that knowledge to better ourselves and world.
As a chem eng grad from USC, I certainly can’t concede that Clemson is better for chemicals and numbers. Not to say that Clemson is not a fantastic engineering school, but Clemson’s chemical engineering isn’t heads and shoulders above South Carolina’s at all.
Comment by Out of Conference — April 21, 2008 @ 7:52 am
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Holly, your Mordor joke was funny. My only experiences comparable to the Columbia heat are a few summers in Durham without air conditioning.
Comment by Chg — April 20, 2008 @ 10:17 pm
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27 & coop
I’m a Starksville/MSU guy who does biz in Cola and dates an old family/Forest Acres local. Due to family connections, I love Clempson next to my Dawgs. Many happy days at Lester’s Tiger Den.
as for Clem BOT, Nicky will lose to Rodney. Walter Dantzler agrees from his reaction when I met him Sat at the ACCs.
It is harder to be a SC Supreme Ct judge than to be a Clem BOT. I think Walter is 1 of the 4 lifetime.
It’s about time that an ag skool gets the better funding. GVL/SPT have led the state the last 50 years.
The Chix are a joke skool. Clemmons deserves it, then the Collitch of Knowitch in Charleston.
Comment by yoyofutbawl — April 19, 2008 @ 1:36 am
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Wow. That Mordor image really takes me back. I never got into the books when I was a kid back in the ’70s, but my older brothers did (and later went to Tech, which is about right). I did, however, find the Hildebrandt calendar illustrations quite fascinating.
Comment by NCT — April 19, 2008 @ 12:31 am
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Holly: absolutely no offense taken by this Gamecock. I took summer courses at USC and felt like I was losing twice my body weight in sweat daily.
Comment by impiri — April 18, 2008 @ 8:38 pm
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I feel I may have unfairly maligned my Gamecock brothers, and I’d like to clear that up—unless it’s game day, I have no particular feelings one way or the other as far as their football team. It’s the city that scares the hell out of me.
Carry on!
Comment by Holly — April 18, 2008 @ 7:10 pm
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Coop, take a dive into lake Hartwell (not Thurmond). Wake up.
Pick on somebody your own size…wait….you would not (intentional) want to compare records/acadamia with UGA?
Comment by hunglikehussain — April 18, 2008 @ 6:04 pm
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were there any gamecocks arrested today? its been a couple of weeks, so they’re due.
Comment by fdog — April 18, 2008 @ 5:22 pm
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I am overcome with the desire to kiss every one of you on the mouth after reading this thread.
Really.
Comment by Holly — April 18, 2008 @ 5:08 pm
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I think Coop needs to go take a nap.
For the record, like many state flagship universities, South Carolina is forced to take a high % of shitty in-state students. About 13% more than Clemson does. USC’s 5-year attrition rates are about 35%. These students never leave Columbia with a degree.
Also, you receive less state money because you have fewer students, you have fewer departments, and you charge a higher tuition. You also don’t have the amount of university-state government partnerships that we do, being next door to the capitol building, that bring in state dollars.
I’ll concede that academically, Clemson does “it’s thing” better than Carolina does “it’s thing,” and thus gets better rankings - but it’s still apples and oranges. If you want to work with numbers, chemicals, or cow manure, then Clemson is your place. Nobody’s trying to take that away from ya, coop.
Comment by wooooohoooooo — April 18, 2008 @ 4:53 pm
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Coop, your vitriol at anything remotely related to USC has grown increasingly hateful since your first appearance.
While I love the Carolina-Clemson rivalry, I appreciate that most fans on both sides are as passionate as any in the country on gameday, yet still recognize it is ultimately only a sports rivalry and not a cosmic struggle between Good and Ford. I have family and friends on both sides, and I enjoy good-natured, friendly give and take.
I do not enjoy the kind of crap you and others of your ilk (on both sides) sling around. I regret that I let you get my blood boiling, prompting a bit of a cheap shot in response upthread.
Piss and moan until the cows come home (and they will- you’re a Clemson man), but I’m not going to take part in any further exchanges with you. Congratulations on your affiliated school’s recent success in the football rivalry. May it continue to validate your worth as a human being.
Comment by Chg — April 18, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
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I guess that 11-game losing streak would put anybody in a sour mood. Cheer up! You have Duke this weekend!
Comment by impiri — April 18, 2008 @ 3:40 pm
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The Dude is obviously not an attorney.
No, you are right. Cases are dismissed with prejudice all the time when the plaintiff has all of one remotely legitimate point, argument, case of law, etc.
Me thinks that offcampus has reading comprehension deficiencies given that I did not address Coach Horn, whatsoever.
Yeah, I have already seen how this movie plays out.
We continue to beat you in football. We continue to beat you in basketball.
According to every objective rankings service in existences, we are a superior academic institution to you, even though we receive less money from the SC legislature.
Granted, we have more private sector funding because we create employees for them.
Glad to see Sorenson, the bow ties I like and support, is getting in on the research initiative, only he came about 10 years too late to the party.
Unless you take into account our baseball programs, MBA programs, and journalism departments, which we don’t have, we OWN YOU IN EVERYTHING, ACADEMICALLY AND ATHLETICALLY.
The University of South Carolina is a JOKE.
I believe that USC-Spartanburg is harder to get into than USC-Columbia at this stage in the game.
Again, nobody takes you seriously.
Comment by Coop — April 18, 2008 @ 2:25 pm
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I love this segment. Keep it coming.
Comment by Jeff from LA — April 18, 2008 @ 2:08 pm
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correction to the correction:
Tyrone Willingham has never had a bad cup of coffee in his life
Comment by NDTom — April 18, 2008 @ 2:04 pm
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Clemson327: interesting…based on that, since its so common, the whole stink about the 80 million dollar secret cash account should have been dismissed at the preliminary hearing.
yet it was not…
interesting how, during the same time that Clemtech was stashing away the 80 million dollars, they continued to hike tuition at exhorbant rates (faster pace than anywhere else in the state) all the while going to the General Assembly, stating that they needed more and more funding.
The General Assembly has stated any sort of secret cash account for state agencies are illegal.
Now, if they had it marked appropriately, it would have turned out fine…but no one knew about this until the lawsuit by a former BOT member.
The good ol’ boy system of appointing the BOT at Clemtech is going to come under fire in SC. Its the only university in the state that names its own BOT, making it comprised of almost entirely Clemtech graduates. Plessy vs. Ferguson, and similar court rulings, intended to do away with this good ol’ boy way of doing things…but apparently Clemtech missed the memo.
Comment by The Dude — April 18, 2008 @ 1:39 pm
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Trying to defend a fucking slush fund, hilarious.
Yes, you owned us on a last second field goal.
As for basketball, our team was pathetic this year, did I ever say otherwise? I’d still classify them as better than your baseball team. Your team’s collapse, although inevitable, was still hilarious.
Oh, and Coop, we didn’t have any scholarships to give this year, until today. I’ll let you know next year when our recruiting matters how well Horn is doing. Our whole team is coming back this year, and they are talented.
Comment by offcampus — April 18, 2008 @ 1:36 pm