The Soda City Sitdown Podcast

This week, Tyler, Matt, Marino, and Clayton bring answers to the first of many hypothetical football offseason questions that will continue in episodes in the near future, highlighting who we would want to see the Gamecocks play in a nonconference home-and-home series if possible and why. Following this discussion, we dive into this week in Gamecock Baseball and the heckling debacle continued, the...

With a smaller group of 4, we were able to get through a lot of our thoughts on everything from watching a heartbreaking March Madness Tournament loss to the officials, and celebrating some of the good things on a series win vs Georgia in baseball. Closing things off again where we started, we get into the recruiting updates for basketball, transfers from the team, and what the future of the progr...

As with most things in Carolina sports, each week brings an entirely new feeling. Going from losing a couple of games straight in baseball, to winning 6 straight and sweeping Florida, and witnessing the women's basketball team return to the final 4, we are riding this high for as long as we can. To help discuss that rising feeling, and the trajectory of our baseball team, and other Carolina sports...

We start off talking about what animal we would fight for a guaranteed win vs Clemson, a good discussion that if true would end up with most members losing. Then we go into Gamecock Baseball going 1-3 on the weekend and getting no hit, the NCAA tournament, and how the NCAA is the flop of the week (again). 

With a slightly smaller crew this week, we're able to get down into the details of the series sweep loss to Texas in baseball last weekend, as the team falls from grace and why that isn't a huge deal. We also have more time to get into hypotheticals, like how many days you'd stay in prison for a South Carolina national championship. Make sure to check out our March Madness brackets for both men's...

This week, we have a smaller crew of Matt, Clayton, and Marino as we discuss the growing hype surrounding the baseball team's hot start.  Among topics discussed are our MVPs and LVPs of the weekend, some concerns as we prepare for a huge series at Texas, and answering a few listener questions thrown in. Outside of baseball, we hit on Dawn's incredible SEC tournament run in the last 7 years, the en...

This week we break down Gamecock baseball's series win over rival Clemson and give our MVPs and LVPs (Least Valuable Person) of the series. We also dive into some spring football talk as Justin King has us believing we will go 15-0 again. To wrap, we talk about Texas athletics and why their alumni need to check themselves.

We dive into Gamecock baseball's first four games of the season and all of the Soda City Slammers they hit. Cam Newton is involved in some drama at a football camp. We wrap things up with Tyler gives his thoughts on Tiger's car crash. 

To help us hype up the start to the Gamecock baseball season and get his insight on where the season might go, Gamecock baseball alum TJ Hopkins joins us for a special interview. Closing things up post interview, we quickly go over the changes to the team, what we look forward to, and our optimism or pessimism for the upcoming 2021 season of college baseball.

South Carolina has finally completed their football coaching staff (again) as well as their 2021 recruiting class. We breakdown some of the recruits we're most excited about, and our thoughts on Montario Hardesty.  We wrap things up with processing our woes in Gamecock Men's and Women's basketball, and our Super Bowl thoughts and prop bet finishes.  

Tyler, Matt, Austyn, Clayton, and Marino discuss Gamecock football, basketball, and baseball storylines of the week, including National Signing Day, the departure of Des Kitchings and his potential replacement, the 2021 football schedule release, a historic baseball announcement, and the up and down week of men's basketball. Later, a Super Bowl preview is discussed and the return of a yearly segme...

As of recording on Tuesday, we discussed what was the completed coaching staff for Gamecock football, and confirmed and predicted recruits in anticipation for Signing Day. After a hard loss to Auburn in basketball, we discuss where the team is headed, what can be fixed, and what's to blame before moving onto the heights of the women's team. Finally, we finish off with our opinions of the AFC and N...

For this week’s main episode, the group continues their update on who is coming in to coach at South Carolina, and where the old coaches are moving to. A lot of positivity from the group in terms of the way the coaching and team as a whole has moved forward, which mirrors our worried thoughts on the future of the basketball season. Big flop of the week covers the scandal involving Tennessee’s now...

This week, we had the chance to bring on one of our favorite reporters around the South Carolina program in Mike Uva. Along the way during the show this week, we go through everything from his perspective of the coaching transition, moving down south from Massachusetts, what it’s like to have his own sandwich at Bojangles, and everything in between in Gamecock culture. Lots of great insight, and a...

Getting in extra time to cover this weekends Wild Card games, Austyn and Clayton enlist the help of our previous guest Josh, to help describe the woes of watching his Steelers fall from grace. This as well as other games, all covered, with predictions for next week’s matchups.

Kicking off the new year of podcast content, half of the group made it to talk about the coaching carousel that's surrounded Gamecock football as well as other college teams, another disappointing college football title game, and some information on Austyn’s new group he’s been attached to.

For the first time since startint the podcast at the beginning of 2020, the group had the ability to record together. It was decided that we should "spice up" our final episode of the year with something different. 6 wings, 6 hot sauces, 6 even hotter sports questions. Will everyone prevail? Will we make a collective fool of ourselves? Absolutely.

A marquee week for us with our 50th weekly podcast since starting. continuing the conversation on Shane Beamer, an important signing day for the college football, and whether or not South Carolina can raise their recruit rankings nationally, and who may fill out the rest of the coaching staff for South Carolina in 2021. After discussing a new coaching hire in Vanderbilt, and a new coaching fire in...

An exciting episode for us to record, as Shane Beamer is officially inducted in as the South Carolina Gamecocks next head coach! We discuss what that means for our future, our opinions of Beamer and the hire, as well as how the team played vs Kentucky, and how that kind of play may be improved next year under a new regime. We also cover the final remaining SEC games, our weekly NFL homer alert, an...

Bearing technical difficulties that lost the SCS’s original iteration of this week’s episode, the group pulled themselves together to get this late edition out for our listeners. We bring more updates to the coaching search, recapping the Georgia game, and what we hope to achieve in playing Kentucky for the last game of the season. We also have our regular SEC predictions, and other topics.

Here, the dedicated members of the SCS team try to get out an episode right before Thanksgiving Thursday to get ahead of the South Carolina Georgia matchup on Saturday. Feeling slightly more confident about the teams direction, despite a loss to Missouri. A few more updates in the coaching search for the Gamecocks, and Dabo Swinney making our Flop of the Week, we close with our usual sports update...

Big week for our podcast crew, with all of the rumors and speculations regarding the next head coach for South Carolina. We figured we’d bring in one of the most respected names in the industry for Gamecock news, in The Big Spur’s JC Shurburtt to discuss all things with the current situation at South Carolina. With our emergency episode released Tuesday, we don’t discuss the Muschamp firing too mu...

Here’s a short episode we produced this week alongside our normal scheduled releases. With South Carolina terminating their coaching deal with Will Muschamp, some of our team got together a short 24 hours after the news hit to discuss what changes were to come, the state of the team now, the obnoxious hive mind that is South Carolina twitter, and looking forward to the what hire comes in to the po...

Another sad week for South Carolina football, as the loss to LSU looks even better after facing Texas A&M on Saturday. Looking for any positivity moving into the matchup with Ole Miss, we have the return of one of our co-hosts, Austyn, who will hopefully bring on some good vibes in the coming days.

Completing the second half of our mid-season report on the state of Carolina football and athletics as a whole, we open up with a tough subject: How the careers of Ray Tanner and Will Muschamp have faired at South Carolina. With the bye week over and a game against Texas A&M looming, we give our thoughts and predictions on the matchup, as well as the other SEC matchups for this week. Finishing the...