The Soda City Sitdown Podcast

A smaller crew this week as Clayton, Austyn, and Josh give their breakdown on the loss to Tennessee. Then they look ahead to the matchup against Florida this upcoming week. Lastly they wrap up with their weekly SEC picks.

The crew assembles to discuss the first SEC win of the year over Mississippi State at home 37-30 with all the ups and downs along the way. After a lengthy discussion of the different aspects of this game, we jump into a preview of the Tennessee game, where the Gamecocks dominated just a season ago. We wrap it up with SEC Week 5 spread predictions!

Join us as we recap the UGA game where Matt put everything on the line to secure the victory.

The podcast discusses the South Carolina vs Furman game from last week and some impressive performances from some freshman and Rattler and the upcoming game vs #1 Georgia.

Matt, Austyn, and Tyler dive into the saddening performance of the Gamecocks in Charlotte to open the season, discussing negatives and positives to take away, as well as what's next. A brief discussion of the upcoming game against Furman followed by SEC Week 2 predictions and a new segment covering broader college football topics wraps up this episode!

Are we back weekly with a new permanent host? I hope so. Tune in as the boys break down the UNC matchup and give their takes on other SEC matchups this week!

The full crew plus a new host join to discuss all things preseason for Gamecock football. We pick each and every game for the season as well as highlighting areas of optimism, but most importantly get very excited for what's to come as kickoff is a little over a week away!

This week, Matt, Tyler, and Devin recap a huge win at home over the Aggies, breaking the previous 0-8 all-time record. After some elation about the performances of the defense and special teams, there were still some huge offensive concerns. We look forward and discuss this weekend's scary game against Mizzou in Williams Brice.

We finally return to break down South Carolina's win vs Kentucky and climate vs culture. We also give our final season predictions for the second half of the season.

This episode, Tyler, Matt, Clayton, and Devin get back to it talking all things Gamecock preseason football, including Coach Beamer's comments at SEC Media Days, an in-depth breakdown of the quarterback room for the upcoming 2022 season, and other notes from around the conference as we get closer and closer to the start of fall camp and opening night against Georgia State. We also mention some of the rumors that GG Jackson would be coming to Columbia (since recording he has committed and signed for the 2022 class!)

Matt, Tyler, and Clayton make a return to the mics after a busy few weeks to give some thoughts on the Spring Game, Spencer Rattler, other standouts, and just general opinions of everything that went into Big Gamecock Weekend! We also dive into the events of the past few weeks in other sports, including the WBB National Championship, the firing of Frank Martin/hiring of Lamont Paris, and the atrocity that is the current state of Gamecock baseball.

The gang reviews the opening series of Baseball and touches on the good, bad, ugly, and everything in between. We also talk about basketballs big weekend and budding win streak. Of course we bash the Net Rankings as well!

This episode, Matt and Devin discuss the highly anticipated season opener for Gamecock Baseball this weekend and are joined by The Big Spur's John Whittle to analyze many of the storylines relating to the upcoming season, as well as hitting on the new Gamecock staff hires, current basketball situation, and other notes from around the SEC and recruiting from the past two weeks.

Clayton, Devin, and Matthew discuss the offseason recruiting, coaching staff, hopes for next year, and a little bit of basketball.

After a week off due to Devin giving all of the SCS members COVID, we dive into the Duke's Mayo Bowl win over UNC. Shane Beamer has an A+ first year as South Carolina's head coach and we give our grades for the season as a whole. We cap off the episode with our final against the spread predictions and an overview of everything that has happened in basketball since our last episode. 

The gang recaps another solid week for recruiting. We break down the Dukes Mayonnaise Bowl matchup vs UNC and give our predictions on that game and all other SEC Bowls

This episode, Matt, Devin, and Clayton dive into all things Gamecocks over the last week or so, from the Duke's Mayo Bowl announcement vs UNC, to the two huge wins in Men's Basketball, and the big news and speculation surrounding early signing day on Wednesday. Midway through recruiting talk the episode broke down as former Heisman candidate and elite QB prospect Spencer Rattler and teammate Austin Stogner committed to transferring to South Carolina. Following that, we speculated wildly about the future of the SC offense and what's still to come in regards to recruiting!

South Carolina finishes the season at 6-6 and makes a bowl game. We discuss a game that we don't want to remember against that team from the upstate. Then we dive into the world of college football coach openings and the wild situations that happened there this week.

The bowl eligible Gamecocks get ready for this Saturdays matchup against the team upstate. Does Shane Beamer and the Gamecocks have enough this season to bring the losing skid to an end against the Tigers?

Less than 24 hours past the end of the game, Matt, Clayton, and Tyler give their raw thoughts and opinions on the Auburn game and what it means to this football program, players, staff, and fanbase to be at six wins and going to a bowl game in year one under Coach Shane Beamer. We dive into individual performances, the backstory with Auburn, how the game ended, and how we got to where we are sitting now with just one game left on the schedule.

Austyn, Clayton, and Matthew breakdown the Missouri loss and what it means for the program and coaching staff moving forward, what needs to be addressed, and what issues were the biggest concerns following the loss. The gang then discusses what to expect from the highly anticipated Auburn matchup and if the Gamecocks stand a chance at home under the lights. Finally, we submit our picks for the SEC matchups of the week.

After a 40-17 thrashing of the Florida Gators, the crew sits down with a renewed hope in this team, and what could lie ahead for the rest of the season. Sit down with us as we discuss the Florida game, give our insight on the Mizzou matchup, and speculate wildly about the rest of the season.

A small group talks about the CFB first playoff rankings then goes into our Florida game preview. SC will likely have a new starting QB Jason Brown and we break down how he will impact the offense coming out of a bye week. We wrap it up with our weekly SEC predictions.

Friend of the program, Josh, stops by this week to moderate our Bye Week Debate. We broke up into two teams, the Sunshine Pumpers (Matt and Tyler) and the Debbie Downers (Clayton and Devin) to discuss the current state of the program.

This episode, we are pleased to welcome social media wizard, Big Game Boomer! We dive into where he comes up with his graphic ideas and the history of his accounts, growing up in South Carolina, the Carolina-Clemson rivalry, SEC big picture talk, Coach Beamer and his time in Oklahoma, and much more!

This week, Matt, Devin, and Clayton put their heads together to delve into the QB room as it currently stands with Doty out for the season and Zeb coming off his heroic performance vs Vandy. We do our normal weekly segment, Moving the Chains, previewing the upcoming affair in College Station against the Aggies whom we've never beaten in seven attempts, and finish the episode off with predictions for the rest of the short SEC slate for week 8.

24 Hours after the 1 point win against Vanderbilt, the crew gives their take on the game and discuss whether the sky is falling, and what needs to happen for Shane Beamer to be successful at South Carolina.

We discuss the disaster of a first quarter and the rest of the game vs Tennessee. Then go into breaking down our next game vs Vandy. We bring back one of our favorite segments flop of the week. Then we finish it off with our SEC predictions. 

The gang gets together to break down the chaos that was the Troy football game and also looks ahead to a big weekend matchup in Knoxville vs the Tennessee Vols. We also give our SEC predictions against the spread and also throw in our future SEC friends Texas and Oklahoma for their Red River Shootout matchup this weekend. 

In this episode, Matt, Devin, and Tyler discuss some wrap-up thoughts on Kentucky and look big picture as to the positives and negatives of the season thus far, and some of the possible scenarios for the remainder of the season. We then give a breakdown of the Troy game and our usual SEC predictions.

In the first of many rapid reaction podcasts, Matt, Austyn, and Devin give their raw thoughts following shortly after the 16-10 on Saturday to the Kentucky Wildcats, dropping to a 2-2 record. We highlight the positives and harp on the negatives and get a nice vent session in after an extremely frustrating day for the Gamecock offense, but a great day for the defense and for the atmosphere within Williams Brice Stadium.

We break down the 40-13 loss vs Georgia, Shane Beamer's first loss as a head coach. We then break down the huge game this weekend vs Kentucky. It will be a night game and home and a huge test for the Gamecocks. We finish with our SEC predictions against the spread.

It was ugly, but Beamer and the Gamecocks are 2-0. The gang breaks down the ECU game and previews the SEC opener vs the #2 Georgia Bulldogs. We also give our spread predictions of other SEC games.

This week, Tyler, Devin, Matt, and Clayton discuss all of the joy in the return of college football as we know it, from the SCS tailgate debut to the joy of experiencing 2001 again in a mostly packed stadium, to the fun of watching a big win under a new coach. We break down different aspects of the Eastern Illinois game, including our MVPs and LVPs, as well as other general wrap-up thoughts on the season start. Following EIU, we move to a tougher opponent on the road this weekend against East Carolina in Greenville, and do our weekly "Moving the Chains" segment highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of SC and ECU and give final score predictions for the upcoming contest. We finish the episode out briefly mentioning last weeks games in the SEC and giving our predictions for this week's games.

We have FINALLY made it to football season. The whole podcast comes together to preview game 1 vs EIU breaking down the depth chart in the process. We then begin our tradition of making SEC predictions, but this year we are doing it against the spread of the games.

Tune in as David Cloninger, from the Post and Courier, talks with Devin and Tyler about the upcoming season and the future of the Gamecocks!

Less than two weeks away from Carolina football! Austyn, Clayton, Matt, and Tyler try to hide their excitement for the season while also expressing their concerns for the current QB room. The gang breaks down the final position group (DB's) and each member gives their official record prediction for the 2021 football season! Sunshine pumpers or Debbie Downers?

It's just Matt and Tyler for this one as they go over all the details from a rough end to the first week of Fall practice and present what options there are going forward. We also continue our position breakdown this week with a deep dive into the Linebacker group.

In this week's episode, Tyler, Austyn, and Matt talk about their past few weeks' experience with keeping up with the Olympics and some of the highlights before jumping into the excitement that is that start of fall camp and "Overreaction Season". Following this euphoric conversation, the position breakdown series continues, this week talking about the Offensive Line and Defensive Line, which have a ton of returning experience and talent, but the big question remains; can these two units produce to the level that we believe they are capable of?

The podcast starts off talking about the start of the Olympics and then takes a deep dive into the implications on Texas and Oklahoma joining the SEC. We talk about the pros and cons of this move for the SEC as a whole and also for South Carolina. There are a lot of strong and conflicting opinions about this move and how it affects South Carolina.

The gang is back from a little "summer vacation". We discuss Beamer's first appearance at the SEC Media Days and how he continues to impress Gamecock Nation. We also continue out position breakdown, this week going over the Tight End group.

On this week's episode, Tyler, Austyn, and Devin take the reigns to discuss a huge recruiting week for Gamecock Football. We board the Shane Plane and discuss our thoughts on the new recruits, the local and national reactions, and the atmosphere and implications of our program going forward. We finish this week's episode discussing our thoughts on the NCAA forcing NC State to forfeit their semi-final matchup against Vanderbilt in the NCAA Men's College World Series and their mismanagement and disregard for the athletes.

This week, Matt, Devin, and Tyler discuss a wide range of topics across a multiple sports, including a deep discussion on what we believe to be the dumbest sports of all time. After MANY hot takes on that one, we deep dive into the wide receiver room this season, with a lot of old and new faces and plenty of question marks heading into the season. We finish the episode out talking about the insane recruiting month of June for Gamecock Football, with 2 new recruits into the fold and many more coming soon, as well as a few of the transfers in and out of football, basketball, and baseball.

We're without our host Tyler for this one, but are rejoined by Devin. Join us as we breakdown our RB room and discuss the paradigm of 3 stud running backs in Kevin Harris, MarShawn Lloyd, and ZaQaundre White. Beyond that, we take a deep dive into the College Football Playoff format as well as what the future might hold. We also discuss a big recruiting weekend for Coach Beamer and the Cocks.

After a short break the SodaCitySitdown returns to discuss the Columbia regional and the end of the Gamecock baseball season. We discuss if losing how ODU lost or how the Gamecocks lost is worse. We then start our yearly football position breakdown. We are starting with QBs and we break down Luke Doty and the rest of the QB room.

This week, Matt and Tyler make up a strong duo for this week in discussing the massively important Gamecock Baseball sweep versus Kentucky, where they stand in terms of hosting a regional, and what kind of excitement awaits this weekend as Founders Park is at 100% capacity for the final series of the year against #4 Tennessee. In addition, they break down the events this week with the resignation of President Caslen, welcome back President Pastides to campus, and go through a few quick hits related to Gamecock Football and Men's Basketball from this week.

This week we recap Gamecock Baseballs weekend series against #4 Mississippi State and discuss what the team needs to accomplish to finish the season strong. We also dive into the Bob Caslen fiasco and give our opinions on the graduation controversy and his presidency as a whole (Recorded before his official resignation)

This week, Matt and Clayton dive deep into the results of the NFL draft, looking at all four Gamecocks drafted as well as the UDFA signings. Following the Gamecock selections, we chat about our opinions on our personal NFL teams as well as who had the best/worst draft picks in the first round. In the second segment, we discuss the horrific weekend in baseball, as the Gamecocks were swept by Ole Miss is disturbing fashion. Lastly, we talk about a few huge commitments for the football team and what it means moving forward for Shane Beamer and Co.

A surprisingly big week in sports for us, as some of us attended one of the baseball games vs #1 Arkansas, and the spring football game. Along with covering those Gamecock related events, we quickly run through our draft pick predictions for our individual teams in the first round of the NFL draft this coming Thursday.

This week the whole gang is here to talk about how Matthew "interviewed" Shane Beamer and how he had an interesting opinion. We debate his opinion and see who really is the flop of the week. We also discuss Gamecock baseball's 3-1 week with a series win over LSU and Charleston Southern. We then finish it off with talk about the spring game and men's basketball news.

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 extension for Frank Martin, a WILD story from the other USC, and a few other notes from different sports around the country!