From: Benjamin
What do the Gamecocks have to do to win their first SEC East crown? For starters, the defense needs to grab some more turnovers. To be minus 6 in turnover margin and sitting atop the east is a bit surprising. The secondary has not dropped as many balls as last season, but they have not had the chance. The soft zone coverage schemes they almost exclusively ran prior to the Vanderbilt game have not placed our backs in position to intercept a pass. Gilmore and company need to make a big play and give the offense the short field.
Broken Record Alert! I realize this is getting redundant, but could we possibly, just maybe get a special teams touchdown this week? 2003 was a long time ago. Seven seasons ago, Chavez Donnings took a punt the distance at home versus Florida. Mathew Thomas took a kick back at Virginia in 2002. That is a lot of missed opportunities to change a game. Minus 4 net punt return yards at Vandy? Wow! We need to seize the day. Wonder when the last time we returned a kick for a TD at home? How many TDs has clemmons put up on special teams since Donnings gave us ours? Probably a lot. To see the impact this can have, watch any Florida game of the past three seasons.The Gamecock special teams need to step it up. Let's see is Coach Spurrier working with the punt return unit all week pays any dividends on Saturday against Tennessee.
