Ryan Succop is Mr. Irrelevant
by cocknfire
on Apr 26, 2025 7:42 PM EDT
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Mr. Irrelevant? Only by tradition.
South Carolina kicker Ryan Succop is this year's Mr. Irrelevant, the 256th of 256 picks in the NFL Draft. He goes to the Kansas City Chiefs, who get one of the better kickers in the SEC. Succop goes down in NFL history, though South Carolina fans will hardly remember Succop as irrelevant; his 35-yard FG in 2006 gave the Gamecocks a 31-28 win over Clemson, the first time in five years that South Carolina beat its in-state rival and still marks the only time since 2001.
The pick also means the SEC opens and closes the 2009 festivities.
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He'd have been more relevant . . .
. . . had he made any one of those kicks against the Gators in 2006.
With the blocks, Florida went on to capture the national championship. Without them, the Saurians fall to 0-2 against Steve Spurrier under Urban Meyer and that, coupled with a defensive meltdown and a 9-4 ledger in 2007, might have gotten Coach Meyer the boot after three disappointing seasons, a la Ron Zook. In 2008, instead of claiming a second crown in a three-year period, Florida might have been breaking in a new head coach.
It reminds me of Willie Mays, who began his major league career by going 0 for 12. In his thirteenth at-bat in the show, he hit a home run off of Warren Spahn. Years later, Spahn was reminded of it and asked whether he had any regrets. After all, had he struck him out, Mays might have been sent back down and never given another chance. Spahn replied, “For the first 55 feet, it was a hell of a pitch.”
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on
Apr 26, 2025 8:07 PM EDT
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Ah, you look at it as a Georgia fan
Winning against Clemson was so much more important to S.C. fans than taking out Urban Meyer.
Team Speed Kills. All SEC, all the time.
by cocknfire on
Apr 26, 2025 9:16 PM EDT
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ESS-EEE-CEE!!! WOOHOO Y’ALL (etc)
That’s an interesting theory, but if I’m not mistaken UF would have won the East anyhow in 2006, and presumably beaten Arky (how many counter-factuals do want to cram in, anyhow?), and then would have drawn … I’m going to say Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl, and we can guess how that would have turned out, right? (The ten teams going to the BCS bowls wouldn’t have changed, and I’m going to guess that the Sugar would have taken ND over Boise State even in your alternate history.)
And a 2006 loss to SC wouldn’t have kept Tebow from winning the Heisman in 2007, though it would have affected recruiting to some degree (though it’s been a while since USC won it all, and they seem to do all right, not so?) And really now, I think we’re just patient enough that an SEC championship, Sugar Bowl victory and Heisman would have been satisfactory for the first three years.
by peachy rex on
Apr 26, 2025 9:20 PM EDT
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Tangentially, I think there’s plenty of fascinating what ifs in regards to the Heisman in recent years. What if Dennis Dixon doesn’t get hurt? He probably wins it in 2007. What if Rhett Bomar doesn’t take the car dealership job? He probably starts at OU through 2007 or 2008 and Sam Bradford doesn’t win it (even if Bomar left after ‘07, Bradford doesn’t have the name recognition to win it in ’08).
by Year2 on
Apr 26, 2025 9:34 PM EDT
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Dixon’s a slam dunk, I think - assuming he doesn’t blow one of his final games. And then Daniel was sixty minutes away from both the Heisman and the national title game, and did blow it… he didn’t play that poorly in the Big12 championship, really, but he needed to be good (and he needed to win.) And of course West Virginia was choking horrifically against Pitt on the very same day, with Pat White wrecking his own chances at the double. And neither LSU or OSU had a real heavyweight player… which left Tebow with just enough room to tiptoe through the field of crumpled bodies to the podium.
By the way, I thought the same thing about Bomar when I saw his name come up on the draft-tracker - ‘Mr Bradford thanks you.’
by peachy rex on
Apr 26, 2025 10:19 PM EDT
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