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The hope around South Carolina football, and there are signs of it, is that rising junior receiver Nyck Harbor takes another step forward in 2025. JC Shurburtt breaks it down and also recaps a good and interesting weekend of Gamecock athletics.

JC Shurburtt apologizes for yesterday's episode of The Show and brings the heat on the topic he meant to discuss yesterday- the Gamecocks sport-specific revenue share- that leads into a discussion about how Lamont Paris and the men's basketball program will get up again next season. Plus, let's play a game with a potential nine-game SEC football schedule. Women's basketball updates throughout (spo...

Play the numbers do you? Raphael Esparza from Docs Sports is live from Las Vegas

In response to an e-mail from a listener downplaying South Carolina's chances on the football field in 2025 based mostly on irrelevant history, but also on the legitimate concern about departing talent, JC Shurburtt gives an honest take on the subject while also pointing out that it represents an opportunity not just for the 2025 team to win games and contend, but also for the program to cross a c...

Enough is enough. JC Shurburtt and Mad Dog Mullinax take a lot of things to task in this spirited episode of Inside the Gamecocks The Show. College sports is going to eat itself and the media, the money people and the TV executives, along with the feckless school presidents, are eventually going to run fans out of the sport. Also, some Gamecock talk mixed in.

Grayson Greiner is into talk about the Yardcocks, who are 2-0 this week after defeating The Citadel, 9-1, in Charleston. Hale McGranahan of TheBigSpur.com does one whole hour on South Carolina football recruiting, bringing the heat on the latest 2026 prospects as Shane Beamer and staff look to assemble a historic class.

JC Shurburtt takes a look at the volume of currently rated blue chip prospects that Shane Beamer and the South Carolina football program are in on and have a realistic chance to land for the Class of 2026 per the updated 247Sports Composite (consensus of all major recruiting media outlets including On3, 247Sports, ESPN and Rivals) prospect rankings. There are two such prospects already committed a...

Brad Crawford of 247Sports has been shaking things up as the offseason debates in college football are raging. He joins Jamie Bradford to set things straight. Wil Crowe co-hosts and there is Gamecock Baseball talk as Carolina tops Davidson and looks toward a Charleston game with The Citadel. Alex Jones of TheBigSpur.com is in for Gamecock Smorgasbord.

Which single player on each side of the ball is the biggest loss for South Carolina heading into prep for 2025? Mike Morgan, Mad Dog Mullinax and JC Shurburtt all have an answer. Myles Stute and Nick Pringle to return for men's basketball next season? There is some griping of Lamont Paris' contract extension and it is a nothingburger if there ever was one. In football recruiting, 247Sports release...

It's no secret that South Carolina has to replace a lot of talent off of its 2024 football roster in 2025. On this episode of Coffee, JC Shurburtt tells us which five positions he will keep a close eye on heading into spring practice. Also, a recap of an eventful day in Gamecockland.

South Carolina head football coach Shane Beamer was masterful during his congressional testimony on NIL and college sports today... but the same cannot be said for many of our elected representatives, who displayed an enormous amount of general ignorance on the subject including one Illinois congresswoman who wanted to use her time to discuss a partisan matter that has nothing to do with the subje...

Jamie Bradford and Mike Morgan discuss a wide variety of topics, including Carolina baseball and basketball. Also, Shane Beamer going to Congress today. John Strickland is in and the group gets into some football personnel in what is always a great conversation with the former Gamecock captain, who does bring up just how good the 2001-04 teams during the Lou Holtz era he was on really were. Hint-...

JC Shurburtt gives his take on the three major components of Gamecock Football on Coffee. There is a difference between team, program and job and South Carolina is at different levels in each category. Also, Shane Beamer goes to the Hill today to save college sports, the Gamecock men's basketball team has Senior Night tonight against Georgia and the baseball team thankfully gets right back out the...

JC Shurburtt and Mad Dog Mullinax spend a little time on the aftermath of Gamecock Baseball getting swept by Clemson and then move on to everyone's favorite topic- Congress. South Carolina head football coach Shane Beamer will testify before a House subcommittee Tuesday on the subject of NIL and pay for play and all of that stuff. Gamecock fans need to stop living in fear of the money that blue bl...

Mike Morgan co-hosts with Jamie Bradford with special guest John Whittle of TheBigSpur.com. The trio dives into what happened on the baseball diamond this past weekend as Clemson sweeps the South Carolina Gamecocks. Also, the NFL Combine has been good to the Gamecocks, Dawn Staley wins another SEC Championship. Lamont Paris owns John Calipari and softball and volleyball talk, which is new for diff...

South Carolina safety Nick Emmanwori was the story of the NFL Scouting Combine over the weekend and very likely will be the latest Gamecocks defensive back drafted in the first round in April's NFL Draft. The 6-foot-3, 228-pound freak athlete, who also is a versatile, standout football player (not just a good tester), will be hard to replace. But JC Shurburtt points out that Gamecocks defensive ba...

The Show starts normal with John Whittle of TheBigSpur.com previewing the Carolina-Clemson baseball season for the final time this week. The Late Night Gamecock Matt Anderson co-hosts with JC Shurburtt and Mad Dog today and the discussion evolves from NIL to the state of the NBA and why that does not even look like the same sport anymore, then we circle back to give baseball series predictions and...

The best rivalry in college baseball renews tonight as South Carolina heads to Clemson for the first game of a three-game weekend series. Stuart Lake joins The Morning Show to break everything down. Also, what's up with more lower win over/unders out of Las Vegas for Gamecock Football? Raphael Esparza from Docs Sports is in to explain and give his advice on the weekend plays.

South Carolina has a good chance to have a record number of football players drafted in this spring's NFL Draft and already has set a record with 11 players invited to the NFL Scouting Combine, which started this week in Indianapolis. The Gamecocks were tied with Ole Miss for the fourth-most nationally and only College Football Playoff participants Georgia (SEC Champion), Texas (semifinalist) and...

JC Shurburtt and Mad Dog Mullinax get Mike Morgan's take on the Sellers vs. Lagway debate (if there even is one). The NFL Combine is discussed. Memories of the 2002 Carolina vs. Clemson College World Series meeting from Morgan who called it. Favorite Gene Hackman films and may he RIP. Plus, Luke Wilson or Owen Wilson? The answers will surprise you.

We are one day away from the renewal of the Carolina-Clemson baseball series and the voice of Carolina baseball and basketball Derek Scott joins JB to chat about the series and fixing men's hoops. Former baseball assistant Jim Storm Toman is live from a KFC in Lynchburg, Virginia for an EPIC interview.

Brad Crawford of 247Sports posed a good question on X earlier this week- why is Florida quarterback DJ Lagway getting more offseason love than South Carolina quarterback LaNorris Sellers? JC Shurburtt believes he knows why the national narrative is what it is and also gives his personal breakdown of the two standout SEC signal callers.

JC is back and raring to go! He and Mad Dog get into the the basketball game and team as the season draws to a conclusion. They discuss the impact more NIL dollars should have on the team moving forward and if there is currently a core to build around. They turn their attention to one of the latest rankings from list season to discuss a couple of players seen as having top 15 NIL "valuations" in L...

Wil Crowe cohosts with JB in his usual Wednesday assignment. They open things up with some hoops talk as the men fell to Missouri on the road last night. Gamecocks Baseball Associate Head Coach, Monte Lee, joins them in the first hour to talk some baseball. Monte gives his thoughts on the team opening up undefeated, and offers insight into the plate approach, Coach Mainieri's style and philosophy,...

Replacing Nick Emmanwori and O'Donnell Fortune, two likely NFL Draft picks, in the South Carolina secondary for 2025 will not be easy. The good news is there are a lot of options. Some questions, at least one of them basic, have to be answered along the way. JC Shurburtt breaks it down on this episode of Coffee.