South Carolina football loves to copy everything that Clemson football does.
Clemson football fans know that the “rivalry” with South Carolina has not really been a rivalry for some time. While the Gamecocks had the number of Dabo Swinney at the beginning of his career, he is now playing chess while they are very busy trying to copy all his moves instead of counterattacking.
Imitation is the most sincere form of praise.
Gamecocks have spent most of the past decade trying to catch Clemson on and off the field. Replica installation, head coach with similar training, focus on social media, hiring not one, but two former Clemson players and many other examples.
The only thing they can’t copy – success in the field.
The SEC saved South Carolina from an embarrassing seventh defeat for the Tigers in 2020 – although, to its credit, the South Carolina chiefs did their best to ensure that the game could be played. That turned out to be the only good news for the program last year.
They had the worst recruiting class among all the SEC and ACC teams – only Oregon State was worse. They won just two football games and fired the head coach – again.
Clemson’s football speaks for itself, while South Carolina is being praised by an NFL coach.
Sometime before or after South Carolina’s professional day, Carolina Panthers ‘head coach Matt Rhule and Gamecocks’ social media team showed a 24-second video in which he claimed to be “amazed” by his facilities .
They put him in a Gamecock pullover and tucked the flap of his jacket so that the Gamecock emblem was actually seen in the video. Of course, fans are eating and thinking that having a coach who won five games in his first year as head coach of the NFL will help them recruit and bring them closer to catching Clemson.
When the results in the field don’t match the facilities, it doesn’t matter who speaks for you and your greatness. Players want to be in a place where they can become winners on and off the field and have the chance to fulfill all their dreams.
That’s why the elite choose Clemson football, not South Carolina.