I hadnt heard that news til i saw your post....that really bummed me out...dude was a baller, and played a huge role in building the foundation that would eventually lead to the best era in Gamecock history 😟
If you're interested in uniform stories - at the 1961 Carolina-Clemson game, some South Carolina fraternity members borrowed the orange jerseys of a high school team, impersonated the Clemson Tigers and ran out on the field for pre-game warm ups at Williams-Brice Stadium, almost causing a riot.
We had another strange Georgia Jersey controversy at Williams-Brice when I was an equipment manager there in 1993-1995. I was assigned to the visitors locker room as a courtesy runner in case the visiting team needed anything. I witnessed a guy walk up and take Mike Bobo's Jersey at halftime. I figured maybe it had torn and needed repair or possibly he needed a fresh dry one. Someone asked me about it and I described the guy and they said that he didn't work for the team and it would seem that someone had just wandered into the locker room and taken that jersey as a piece of sports memorabilia. Later that year, we would go to the Carquest bowl and the same guy showed up in our locker room without the proper sideline pass. The police promptly had him arrested for trespass. I often wondered if they uncovered some type of illegal memorabilia ring.
This unofficial Jaguar Gator 8 historian will remind everyone you made a video about South Carolina’s first bowl win, the 1995 Carquest Bowl against West Virginia.
Why didn't somebody tell Holtz he could wear white as the home team? SEC rules permit the home team to wear white without permission of the visiting team in conference games. It would not have been that hard to tell Georgia to bring its red jerseys, especially since the Bulldogs were traveling by bus and not plane.
I'm guessing it was just too late for Georgia to switch. That, or maybe they did ask Georgia to switch and Georgia refused. Because if they had a choice, of course they want to be the ones wearing white
What you have to remember is that traditionally in football, the home team wears the team color jerseys and the opponents wear white. It wasn't until the last 10-20 years or so that teams actually chose to wear white jerseys at home, with some notable exceptions like LSU preferring white jerseys at home. I'm not sure if that was in the conference or NCAA rulebook at the time, either.
This past season, Central Michigan had to fly in their uniforms the day of their game with LSU because they thought LSU was gonna wear white instead of purple
There are several other uniform stories out there for future videos. Some of them could be combined as they're kind of one-note stories. 2017 FAMU @ Arkansas (illegal jerseys) 2014 FSU vs. Oklahoma State (illegal jerseys) 2007 VT @ GT (stolen jerseys) 2011 UCLA @ USC (Pac-12 forced UCLA to wear away jerseys) Thank you for your hard work. These are great videos.
As a South Carolina fan, I always think about these 2 stories 2011 South Carolina vs Auburn (Wounded Warrior jerseys) 2009 South Carolina @ Tennessee (jersey change during warmups)
I was at that game in the student section. It was stuff of legends. The students tore down the goalposts and marched one of them 2.5 miles from the stadium all the way to 5 Points which is an area with a bunch of college bars. They cut up the goalposts and pieces of it are still displayed proudly in some of those bars to this day.
I went to that game against New Mexico State the week before. As for how big a win that was, the fans tore down the goalposts for beating a team that is barely able to stay in FBS today. With that said, the actual craziest uniform controversy in South Carolina history was in 2012 against Auburn, where the team was going to wear special Under Armour "Wounded Warrior" jerseys for charity auction to benefit injured veterans. The problem was that the camo pattern on the numbers was too difficult to read so the team was ordered to switch back into their regular jerseys when in the locker room prior to kickoff. The final result was a loss to an Auburn team coming off Cam Newton leaving for the NFL and ended up being the final game for quarterback Stephen Garcia who got drunk after the game after having been given a zero tolerance policy by AD Eric Hyman.
There’s still 2 seconds left on the clock in that game. I’ll never forget it, cost the 2011 Gamecocks the SEC East and a potential national championship berth if they could have beaten LSU (we would have been better than ‘11 Georgia that’s for sure)
It would be funny if the Gamecocks tried to pull a D2: The Mighty Ducks if the uniforms hadn't arrived on time and changed at halftime to the garnet uniforms. It's probably illegal but it would have been interesting.
8:17 - on the color of the jerseys: up until about 10-15 years ago, it was difficult to replicate the garnet for SC’s jerseys. Even Under Armour, the official supplier for the school’s athletic program, had trouble with the color initially. I’m thinking it might be a combination of the material and sweat that caused the garnet to look like a completely different shade of red.
Say what you will about Lou Holtz but he pretty much won everywhere he went. Except the Jets, but he's a college coach. He did good for the Gamecocks they needed someone like him.
After the ‘Heidi Bowl’ on Oakland, the NY Jets stayed on the West Coast to play the Chargers the next week in San Diego. Problem was their road Uni’s ‘went missing’. Jets had to have more Uni’s rushed to San Diego, & this was before the days of UPS & FedEx. That would be a great story.
Uniform anticipation: Alabama will always be dead last in that metric. Crimson helmets. White pants. Crimson jerseys at home, white jerseys on the road (except at LSU and if it ever plays at Georgia Tech again).
*With the rare exception if GT wants to wear their blue jersey at home, which in 2018 against Clemson, was the first time in almost 2 decades they did that against the Tigers.
Penn State would compete with Alabama for last place in the uniform anticipation category. It was a big deal when they had names on the backs of their jerseys.
@@Bmthighlights I think it's better for Auburn that they didn't play either USC or OU that year, to be honest. I doubt Auburn beats either of them that year. Too many close calls.
@@encycl07pedia- Auburn had the toughest schedule by far, and with that talent, I think they would definitely beat Oklahoma, and could have a chance vs USC. The reason they had so many close calls is because they played so many top 10 teams.
@@Bmthighlights Sure, little guy. I'm going to burst your little bubble now: SOS: 1.94 (55th of 120) ONLY 54 TEAMS HAD HARDER SCHEDULES! AUBURN'S SCHEDULE WAS SO TUFF!!! HOW DID YOU SURVIVE?!!! #7 UGA (10-2) #10 VT (10-3) #13 Tennessee (10-3) (2x) #16 LSU (9-3) 5-6 ULM 3-8 Miss State 3-7 (FCS) Citadel 6-6 Louisiana Tech 5-6 Arkansas 4-7 Ole Miss 6-6 Alabama Lots of Top 10 teams. So many. All TWO of them, including one in a bowl game. Rankings at the time the game were played are rarely accurate.
I'm not sure why Lou Holtz didn't think about having the Gamecocks' whole uniform set ready before the season began, especially considering that their garnet jerseys weren't supposed to be ready for the Mississippi State game, which was in JPS' traditional football window. I'm not sure how Russell Athletic pulled off this feat with an accelerated timetable, but it got the job done.
Holtz should gave gotten an ear full from the head of the athletic department. If the jersey weren't there then don't get your players hopes up on something they can't wear.
I doubt that Georgia has ever wore all-whites before. And even if it was the case, it would be very rare, mostly on the road. All I know that Georgia always embrace white jerseys with silver pants and the 3-stripe pattern of black, white and red. And rarely to pair up with red pants or black pants with their white jerseys.
One thing that made it easier for South Carolina to get the uniforms fairly quickly is that they didn’t have names on the back. Holtz’s Notre Dame teams also didn’t have names on the back of their uniforms.
I distinctly remember him bringing that tradition from Notre Dame to the Gamecocks- and I believe that helped change the toxic culture that Brad Scott left.
Maybe it’s just me noticing this but I’ve noticed in a lot of your videos that one of your favorite lines to say lately is their pass rating was “lower than if they would have just spiked the ball on every play.” That’s too funny. Maybe I just noticed things like that but that seems to be your favorite line lately. 😂 🤣 🤣 🤣 Love your work bro. Keep it up! Thank you. And keep playing hard. Don’t spike the ball on every play now, alright bro?! 😂 All the best!
I remember like 10 years ago VA Tech was playing at GA Tech and didn't have all of their uniforms. So a few VA Tech players had to wear some GA Tech practice jerseys.
I didn't like UGA's QB Quincy Carter. He went to H.S. with my sister when ever he come back to the school he would talk smack about whoever was wearing no. 3 the number he wore when they won the state championship.
Muschamp introduced the script Carolina helmets for the 2018 season (and haven’t been worn since). The infamous chicken butt helmets were used for one game in 2015 (IIRC it was in a loss to Florida).
I'm reminded of a rumor I once heard involving uniforms. It was a Monday night game between the Cowboys and Packers. Supposedly the Packers equipment manager sent their white uniforms to Texas Stadium (that tells you how long ago this was.) They were going to FedEx the green uniforms but the equipment manager didn't know the zip code for Green Bay, WI. Either this got resolved or was a bad rumor because the Packers had on the right uniforms. Flash forward and the Broncos were fined for sending white uniforms when the Chargers declared their uniform choice as their white uniforms.
Everything that South Carolina does is odd. Like them boasting about being in the SEC, when they've never won the conference, and only won the East a single time.
The gamecocks and bulldogs almost always play it close, talent differential doesn’t matter usually. A lot of talented Georgia guys end up playing for the Cocks and they always get up to play UGA.
RIP to Phil Petty, the quarterback who led the Gamecocks’ miraculous turnarounds of 2000/01.
I hadnt heard that news til i saw your post....that really bummed me out...dude was a baller, and played a huge role in building the foundation that would eventually lead to the best era in Gamecock history 😟
Rest In Peace
If you're interested in uniform stories - at the 1961 Carolina-Clemson game, some South Carolina fraternity members borrowed the orange jerseys of a high school team, impersonated the Clemson Tigers and ran out on the field for pre-game warm ups at Williams-Brice Stadium, almost causing a riot.
Best college prank ever played. I would have loved to had been there to see it. They also brought the Clemson homecoming queen out. A real cow!!
We had another strange Georgia Jersey controversy at Williams-Brice when I was an equipment manager there in 1993-1995. I was assigned to the visitors locker room as a courtesy runner in case the visiting team needed anything. I witnessed a guy walk up and take Mike Bobo's Jersey at halftime. I figured maybe it had torn and needed repair or possibly he needed a fresh dry one. Someone asked me about it and I described the guy and they said that he didn't work for the team and it would seem that someone had just wandered into the locker room and taken that jersey as a piece of sports memorabilia. Later that year, we would go to the Carquest bowl and the same guy showed up in our locker room without the proper sideline pass. The police promptly had him arrested for trespass. I often wondered if they uncovered some type of illegal memorabilia ring.
This unofficial Jaguar Gator 8 historian will remind everyone you made a video about South Carolina’s first bowl win, the 1995 Carquest Bowl against West Virginia.
Why didn't somebody tell Holtz he could wear white as the home team? SEC rules permit the home team to wear white without permission of the visiting team in conference games. It would not have been that hard to tell Georgia to bring its red jerseys, especially since the Bulldogs were traveling by bus and not plane.
Does Lou Holtz seem like a person who listens to reason?
I'm guessing it was just too late for Georgia to switch. That, or maybe they did ask Georgia to switch and Georgia refused. Because if they had a choice, of course they want to be the ones wearing white
What you have to remember is that traditionally in football, the home team wears the team color jerseys and the opponents wear white. It wasn't until the last 10-20 years or so that teams actually chose to wear white jerseys at home, with some notable exceptions like LSU preferring white jerseys at home.
I'm not sure if that was in the conference or NCAA rulebook at the time, either.
This past season, Central Michigan had to fly in their uniforms the day of their game with LSU because they thought LSU was gonna wear white instead of purple
I don’t think the white rule was cemented in the league at the time.
There are several other uniform stories out there for future videos. Some of them could be combined as they're kind of one-note stories.
2017 FAMU @ Arkansas (illegal jerseys)
2014 FSU vs. Oklahoma State (illegal jerseys)
2007 VT @ GT (stolen jerseys)
2011 UCLA @ USC (Pac-12 forced UCLA to wear away jerseys)
Thank you for your hard work. These are great videos.
As a South Carolina fan, I always think about these 2 stories
2011 South Carolina vs Auburn (Wounded Warrior jerseys)
2009 South Carolina @ Tennessee (jersey change during warmups)
I was at that game in the student section. It was stuff of legends. The students tore down the goalposts and marched one of them 2.5 miles from the stadium all the way to 5 Points which is an area with a bunch of college bars. They cut up the goalposts and pieces of it are still displayed proudly in some of those bars to this day.
I went to that game against New Mexico State the week before. As for how big a win that was, the fans tore down the goalposts for beating a team that is barely able to stay in FBS today.
With that said, the actual craziest uniform controversy in South Carolina history was in 2012 against Auburn, where the team was going to wear special Under Armour "Wounded Warrior" jerseys for charity auction to benefit injured veterans. The problem was that the camo pattern on the numbers was too difficult to read so the team was ordered to switch back into their regular jerseys when in the locker room prior to kickoff. The final result was a loss to an Auburn team coming off Cam Newton leaving for the NFL and ended up being the final game for quarterback Stephen Garcia who got drunk after the game after having been given a zero tolerance policy by AD Eric Hyman.
There’s still 2 seconds left on the clock in that game. I’ll never forget it, cost the 2011 Gamecocks the SEC East and a potential national championship berth if they could have beaten LSU (we would have been better than ‘11 Georgia that’s for sure)
@@strimbimmin328 lose 20+ straight and tell me you wouldn't rip down the goalposts after beating even an NAIA
It would be funny if the Gamecocks tried to pull a D2: The Mighty Ducks if the uniforms hadn't arrived on time and changed at halftime to the garnet uniforms. It's probably illegal but it would have been interesting.
“You look good, you feel good. You feel good, you play good. You play good, they pay good.” - Deion Sanders
8:17 - on the color of the jerseys: up until about 10-15 years ago, it was difficult to replicate the garnet for SC’s jerseys. Even Under Armour, the official supplier for the school’s athletic program, had trouble with the color initially. I’m thinking it might be a combination of the material and sweat that caused the garnet to look like a completely different shade of red.
Considering garnet is actually a shade of purple it is pretty hard to match to the red we have worn forever.
Say what you will about Lou Holtz but he pretty much won everywhere he went. Except the Jets, but he's a college coach. He did good for the Gamecocks they needed someone like him.
He would win for about three years after he got somewhere turning around a program that was down then his teams would start going down hill.
After the ‘Heidi Bowl’ on Oakland, the NY Jets stayed on the West Coast to play the Chargers the next week in San Diego. Problem was their road Uni’s ‘went missing’. Jets had to have more Uni’s rushed to San Diego, & this was before the days of UPS & FedEx. That would be a great story.
The NFL channel had a Jets uniform story. They were playing the TN Oilers at Vanderbilt's stadium, home of the current laughing stock of the SEC.
Uniform anticipation: Alabama will always be dead last in that metric. Crimson helmets. White pants. Crimson jerseys at home, white jerseys on the road (except at LSU and if it ever plays at Georgia Tech again).
*With the rare exception if GT wants to wear their blue jersey at home, which in 2018 against Clemson, was the first time in almost 2 decades they did that against the Tigers.
Penn State would compete with Alabama for last place in the uniform anticipation category. It was a big deal when they had names on the backs of their jerseys.
@@CTubeMan Texas too
Great channel
Please do the 2004 BCS Controversy, I think you would tell it better than anyone else would!
Auburn was robbed that year
Carnell Williams, Ronnie Brown, Carlos Rogers, Jason Campbell, Marcus McNeill, Ben Grubbs.
That team was stacked!
@@JWex-jy7sk as an Auburn fan it still pains me
@@Bmthighlights I think it's better for Auburn that they didn't play either USC or OU that year, to be honest. I doubt Auburn beats either of them that year. Too many close calls.
@@encycl07pedia- Auburn had the toughest schedule by far, and with that talent, I think they would definitely beat Oklahoma, and could have a chance vs USC. The reason they had so many close calls is because they played so many top 10 teams.
@@Bmthighlights Sure, little guy. I'm going to burst your little bubble now:
SOS: 1.94 (55th of 120)
ONLY 54 TEAMS HAD HARDER SCHEDULES! AUBURN'S SCHEDULE WAS SO TUFF!!! HOW DID YOU SURVIVE?!!!
#7 UGA (10-2)
#10 VT (10-3)
#13 Tennessee (10-3) (2x)
#16 LSU (9-3)
5-6 ULM
3-8 Miss State
3-7 (FCS) Citadel
6-6 Louisiana Tech
5-6 Arkansas
4-7 Ole Miss
6-6 Alabama
Lots of Top 10 teams. So many. All TWO of them, including one in a bowl game. Rankings at the time the game were played are rarely accurate.
This is the craziest story I heard since a Toronto player forgot their passport in the MLB.
I'm not sure why Lou Holtz didn't think about having the Gamecocks' whole uniform set ready before the season began, especially considering that their garnet jerseys weren't supposed to be ready for the Mississippi State game, which was in JPS' traditional football window. I'm not sure how Russell Athletic pulled off this feat with an accelerated timetable, but it got the job done.
The Russell Plant was outside Auburn Al at the time. Just an 8hr drive
nice to see my gamecocks covered in a video. pleasant surprise
11:40 first time on this channel for the phrase?
Holtz should gave gotten an ear full from the head of the athletic department. If the jersey weren't there then don't get your players hopes up on something they can't wear.
I doubt that Georgia has ever wore all-whites before. And even if it was the case, it would be very rare, mostly on the road. All I know that Georgia always embrace white jerseys with silver pants and the 3-stripe pattern of black, white and red. And rarely to pair up with red pants or black pants with their white jerseys.
One thing that made it easier for South Carolina to get the uniforms fairly quickly is that they didn’t have names on the back. Holtz’s Notre Dame teams also didn’t have names on the back of their uniforms.
I distinctly remember him bringing that tradition from Notre Dame to the Gamecocks- and I believe that helped change the toxic culture that Brad Scott left.
Maybe it’s just me noticing this but I’ve noticed in a lot of your videos that one of your favorite lines to say lately is their pass rating was “lower than if they would have just spiked the ball on every play.” That’s too funny. Maybe I just noticed things like that but that seems to be your favorite line lately. 😂 🤣 🤣 🤣 Love your work bro. Keep it up! Thank you.
And keep playing hard. Don’t spike the ball on every play now, alright bro?! 😂 All the best!
Letering not centered
Insert the image of the Carolina jersey missing letters in an FBS game that one time...
I remember like 10 years ago VA Tech was playing at GA Tech and didn't have all of their uniforms. So a few VA Tech players had to wear some GA Tech practice jerseys.
I didn't like UGA's QB Quincy Carter. He went to H.S. with my sister when ever he come back to the school he would talk smack about whoever was wearing no. 3 the number he wore when they won the state championship.
Obviously the jerseys they wore outsmarted the Pickle Juice!
Ay Caramba!
I totally thought there would be a crazier uniform controversy in South Carolina football history. Love the videos but the titles are pretty dumb lol
Not crazier but there’s the time that muschamp trotted the Gamecocks out with the now infamous chicken butt helmets or Carolina script helmets
Muschamp introduced the script Carolina helmets for the 2018 season (and haven’t been worn since). The infamous chicken butt helmets were used for one game in 2015 (IIRC it was in a loss to Florida).
I'm reminded of a rumor I once heard involving uniforms. It was a Monday night game between the Cowboys and Packers. Supposedly the Packers equipment manager sent their white uniforms to Texas Stadium (that tells you how long ago this was.) They were going to FedEx the green uniforms but the equipment manager didn't know the zip code for Green Bay, WI. Either this got resolved or was a bad rumor because the Packers had on the right uniforms. Flash forward and the Broncos were fined for sending white uniforms when the Chargers declared their uniform choice as their white uniforms.
This is absolute horseshit I'm glad we spend a miilon plus on uniform designers now who have it ready and it's not a concern or part of the storyline.
#GoEclipseCocks!
22 Years Ago
My undergrad in southern Georgia uses black jerseys for home games. Imagine that in 95 degree weather, but they still are a D2 powerhouse.
No longer the laughing stock of The SEC. Now The SEC just giggles.
Not really. You're a basement dweller who hasn't been outside in 20 years
Everything that South Carolina does is odd. Like them boasting about being in the SEC, when they've never won the conference, and only won the East a single time.
Nice to know Georgia playing down to their competition and losing a game they were expected to win isn’t just a 2010s thing
The gamecocks and bulldogs almost always play it close, talent differential doesn’t matter usually. A lot of talented Georgia guys end up playing for the Cocks and they always get up to play UGA.
Nope. They’ve been doing it for decades
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