South Carolina fires their offensive coordinator
This was speculated on earlier on the board but it's official. South Carolina fired their offensive coordinator in Kurt Roper today and replaced him with the co-offensive coordinator Bryan McClendon. It looks like they were waiting on Rice to hire Roper as their head coach but they went in a different direction so they went ahead and fired him. Either way, as bad as Roper was, this probably leaves the SCAR offense in a bit of disarray.
http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/21688087/south-carolina…
December 6th, 2017 at 12:42 PM ^
Reported not too far down on the page here
December 6th, 2017 at 12:43 PM ^
...I'm more interested to see what our offense looks like after bowl practice. Our defense is a known commodity and will be fine next year regardless of the bowl outcome. I'm looking for a ray of hope on offense.
December 6th, 2017 at 1:02 PM ^
our offense looked very good against OSU, except for poor QB play/execution. Thought we had a great game plan. I expect another great game plan with a month to prepare and a healthy Peters ready to go, I think we will be just fine.
December 6th, 2017 at 12:44 PM ^
the only thing that concerns me about this game with South Carolina is insufficient applause.
December 6th, 2017 at 2:38 PM ^
kudos for the Tin Cup reference.
December 6th, 2017 at 12:46 PM ^
Seems like great timing.
December 6th, 2017 at 12:47 PM ^
If I had a coworker named Roper I would call him Goat.
December 6th, 2017 at 12:47 PM ^
and they're kidding themselves if they think Mr. Furley can run that offense.
December 6th, 2017 at 12:54 PM ^
Three’s Company was one of my favorite shows as a kid; I loved John Ritter’s physical comedy.
December 6th, 2017 at 12:58 PM ^
I preferred Chrissy's physical comedy.
December 6th, 2017 at 1:15 PM ^
I liked Janet. She had some nice legs and a cute little butt on her.
December 6th, 2017 at 2:24 PM ^
correct, if nothing else.
December 6th, 2017 at 4:44 PM ^
I don't think there is a wrong decision...
Here either:
December 6th, 2017 at 4:54 PM ^
Defintely Mary Ann on that one. Ginger is too high maintenance.
December 6th, 2017 at 5:05 PM ^
crazy... or at least she did 50 years ago
December 6th, 2017 at 1:02 PM ^
Hopefully they will be showing the Outback Bowl at the Reagal Beagle.
December 6th, 2017 at 1:23 PM ^
You know they will be. I’m going to assume through leaps in logic that Jack Tripper would’ve been a Michigan fan because Ritter’s character on 8 Simple Rules wore M stuff from time to time, right? And since Three’s Company was set in Southern California, I’m going to assume he was selfishly rooting for a Holiday Bowl appearance but “settled” for hanging with Larry and a few brews at the RB on NYD.
December 6th, 2017 at 2:00 PM ^
Here are my guesses (Big Ten edition):
Jack: Michigan
Janet: Northwestern
Chrissy: Indiana University
Mr. Roper: Rutgers
Mrs. Roper: Maryland
Mr. Furley: MSU
Larry: University of Illinois
December 6th, 2017 at 2:35 PM ^
Jack: Michigan (wants to serve the wine and cheese crowd)
Janet: Indiana (her character was from Indiana)
Chrissy: Minnesota (last name Snow)
Mr. Roper Rutgers (cheapest tickets)
Mrs. Roper: Rutgers (most similar team to Mr Roper)
Mr. Furley; Maryland (designed their uniforms)
Larry: OSU (would hook players up with cars)
December 6th, 2017 at 1:02 PM ^
That's Mr Furley, he was funnier.
December 6th, 2017 at 1:04 PM ^
Furly wasn't funny because he didn't have a type. Just Don Knotts being himself. Mr. Roper was the nosy super who always assumes the most sordid things about you, and he played it to perfection. I always thought Jack seemed gay.
December 6th, 2017 at 1:54 PM ^
IIRC, part of the show's premise was that the Ropers only allowed Jack to live with two single women because he told them he was gay.
December 6th, 2017 at 2:25 PM ^
Yeah. The show kind of went sideways when the Ropers went solo (they got a spin-off series) and Chrissy wrote herself out of the show.
December 6th, 2017 at 1:53 PM ^
yup, posted in response to his mention above.
December 6th, 2017 at 12:49 PM ^
Roper was a cocunut shrimp guy. Muschamp clearly a Bloomin' Onion guy.
December 6th, 2017 at 12:50 PM ^
Honestly they had a mediocre offense and will now come out with likely a completely new gameplan that tape won't help plan for. If anything this is a bad thing for the defense. If an offense is bad than predictable makes it even easier to stop. Giving even a bad offense a month to practice things that likley won;t show up on tape is going to lead to some big plays.
December 6th, 2017 at 1:04 PM ^
When you go up against a Don Brown defense the determining factor is how YOU plan for IT, not how IT plans for YOU.
December 6th, 2017 at 1:05 PM ^
with just a month, your not going to have time to install a lot of new stuff and be comfortable with most of it. They might make a few tweaks, but a total rehaul would be foolish to even try as most of it would backfire.
December 6th, 2017 at 2:33 PM ^
It doesn't have to be an overhaul. Different playcalling can make a huge difference. Coaches and analysts look for tendencies based on the tape available and with nothing to go on, they have fewer chances to find reliable trends.
Fortunately the talent on this defense seems greater than South Carolina's offense.
December 6th, 2017 at 1:05 PM ^
This is correct.
December 6th, 2017 at 1:08 PM ^
I can't imagine the new guy will be able to put too much in with just a couple weeks of bowl practice. And if he does, his team will not have bad too much of a chance to gain reps in the new schemes. Seems to me they'd likely be better off improving execution of whatever they already run--or they would be, if they hadn't just canned their OC.
December 6th, 2017 at 1:12 PM ^
After watching Michigan’s offense all season, that’s basically what we did against OSU. That game plan came out of nowhere
December 6th, 2017 at 1:56 PM ^
Yeah, okay, that's true. Darn.
December 6th, 2017 at 1:49 PM ^
every south carolina fan on reddit is overjoyed. Its not just about the playcalling but the mentality.
Who knows if it will happen but they are talking about being more aggressive and geting the ball to the edge, bubble screens, jet sweeps etc. I'd rather be facing the old d cordinator who liked to run the ball up the middle. I'm sure the Michigan defenes will win overall and dominate them, I just think this increases the chances for a flukey 14 points rather than decreases the chances.
December 6th, 2017 at 2:29 PM ^
OH NOO. DON'T TRY BUBBLE SCREENS ON A DON BROWN DEFENSE!!
(And by that, I mean, please try bubble screens on a Don Brown defense. Because they don't work.)
The next few practices would be a good time to get that whole "not let our slower defenders get dragged across the field" thing sorted.
December 6th, 2017 at 4:01 PM ^
leave it to the board's constant chicken little to find something terrible...and mostly baseless. You have issues.
December 6th, 2017 at 5:40 PM ^
Every team with a month to prepare is going to bring out some new things that aren't on tape.
USC will still have a bad offense. It's a Muschamp trademark and isn't going to change suddenly because he fired one assistant.
December 6th, 2017 at 12:51 PM ^
He would have been fired anyway after Don Brown shuts them down in the bowl game. The Gamecocks must have decided why wait.
December 6th, 2017 at 12:53 PM ^
Probably even did it as a favor to him, to spare him from the inevitable.
December 6th, 2017 at 12:52 PM ^
Coaches Brown and Mattision are told of the changes in South Carolina's staff.....
December 6th, 2017 at 1:22 PM ^
There's probably some good footage/dialogue of those guys watching film from the balcony.
December 6th, 2017 at 12:55 PM ^
coordinators like tissue while at Florida. He's firest his offensive coordinator in year two of his South Carolina tenure. Either no quality OCs want to work for him, or he's the common denominator dragging his teams down.
December 6th, 2017 at 1:36 PM ^
Bad offense seems to plague him wherever he goes.
December 6th, 2017 at 1:38 PM ^
Exactly, Muschamp is still in charge there. I don't think this makes any difference.
December 6th, 2017 at 12:57 PM ^
SCAR was 98th in scoring offense. I’m not sure THIS is what leaves their offense in disarray.
December 6th, 2017 at 1:05 PM ^
This matchup screams 12:00 start on ESPN2 and I will watch every second of it
December 6th, 2017 at 1:09 PM ^
The Outback Bowl is always at noon.