Lately, I walk around town and hear how depressed Carolina fans are about the football team. (Please note I am not including the fans that think we have a good chance at the SEC championship every year. Just your serious “I’ve seen everything” fans.) I guess going 6 – 6 can have that effect on people. What is surprising is to hear them reminisce. “Morrison sure put out some good teams.” “Carlen was a hell of a coach.” While that may be true, funny thing is, we might be living in the golden age.
Take a look at these stats:
Wins Losses Win %
2000s -- 54 - 42 56.3
1990s -- 41 - 67 37.9
1980s -- 63 - 49 56.3
1970s -- 56 - 55 50.5
1960s -- 37 - 59 38.5
1950s -- 54 - 41 56.8
1940s -- 36-43 45.6
1930s -- 49-49 50.0
1920s -- 55-37 59.8
1910s -- 32 - 41 43.8
1900’s -- 37-26 58.7
1890s -- 6-15 28.6
I have got news for you, Carolina has never had it better. So far, the Gamecocks have had two better decades in terms of win percentage, the 50’s and 20’s. Those glorious 80’s? It is a statistical dead heat with the current decade. (I threw out the ties – who counts those anyway?) While we are on the subject of the 80’s, Carolina is all of 10 wins away from topping that decade’s win mark (yes, I know more games are played now.)
In the 2000’s, Carolina has been to four bowl games, and get this, won three of them. For a team that did not win a bowl game until 1994, that is saying a lot. Although I did not take the time to tally them, I wouldn’t think I was going out on a limb in saying that the 2000’s led the decades in NFL draft picks. If anyone wants to confirm that, knock yourself out.
You may notice the 90’s. Gee, I wonder what happened then? Oh yeah, something about joining college football’s version of the NFC East.
“Well, Spurrier's just not getting it done like we thought he would.” Actually, he is doing pretty well. Spurrier’s three years rank right up there with other three year totals. Have a look:
2005-2007 -- 21-16 56.8
2000-2002 -- 22-14 61.1
1987-1989 -- 22-12 64.7
1983-1985 -- 20-14 58.8
1978-1980 -- 21-13 61.7
1957-1959 -- 18- 12 60.0
1952-1954 -- 18 -12 60.0
1946-1948 -- 14-10 58.3
1932-1934 -- 16-11 59.3
1924-1926 -- 20-10 66.7
1912-1914 -- 14-10 58.3
The one they call Darth Visor is holding his own. (Who knew Carolina was so good in the 20’s?)
So why is this such a good decade? The answer - no debacle seasons. No 0 -11’s or 1-10’s. Not even a 3-6-2. (Can you believe there were two of those?) The worst is a couple of 5 – 7’s.
So why so many grumbling fans? Well when your conference wins the national title almost every other year, garnet turns green. That, and people tend to have short memories. But hang in there Gamecock fans. When this season is over, you may be partying like it’s 1925.
3 comments:
"not as bad as you think" ? I guess we ain't been watching the same team for 30 years. We don't even have Blake now and if we could not make it without him, we never will. Its called the chicken curse
the mayor is right because it takes several years to get all of spurrier's recruits on the field. This year will be different. Our talent is underrated and even though we play probably the toughest schedule in the nation, we will win big games.
The statistics across different decades does not specifically point out the fact that prior to the 1990s we played a very, very weak ACC schedule. The ACC is still weak and very over-rated (as usual).
GO COCKS!!!!
I don't see how not having Blake is a bad thing, BenCock. He was nothing but a liability for the team. Hopefully, he and Nugget are settling back down in LaGrange.
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