The roller coaster, up-and-down career of Stephen Garcia at South Carolina has taken yet another downward turn, and it appears the quarterback is hellbent on ensuring his final months in Columbia end in a spectacular fireball of bro-ish carnage.
Or he’s pulling a quasi-Favre and just doesn’t feel the need for spring practice any longer. One of the two.
For the second time in less than a month, the “other” USC announced this evening that Garcia has been suspended from the football program. While the first was for the initial stages of spring practice, this one carries the “indefinitely” label.
“Being a student-athlete at the University of South Carolina is a privilege, not a right,” athletic director Eric Hyman said in a statement. “We have expectations for our student-athletes and we make them aware that there are consequences for their actions. Stephen has exhibited behavior that is unacceptable for one of our student-athletes. Therefore, he has forfeited the privilege to participate in any football related activity until further notice.”
At the moment, it’s unclear what led to the latest suspension, but late last month Garcia publicly acknowledged he was working on a razor-thin margin when it came to his status on the football team. And he indicated in iron-clad fashion that his naughty bro-ness was behind him.
“I’ve got to be smarter. That’s the bottom line. … Nothing bad is going to happen again. It’s a guarantee,” Garcia said by way of Travis Haney‘s Twitter feed.
On March 24, head coach Steve Spurrier confirmed that Garcia had been suspended for the first week of spring practice. That suspension stemmed from some “shenanigans” in the run-up to the Gamecocks’ Chick-fil-A Bowl game with Florida State. And the operative word in regards to the alleged bowl-week shenanigans is “Chick”. And “nekkid”. And “beer”.
Garcia has started the past 28 games at QB for the Gamecocks. In other unrelated news, Connor Shaw is on-deck preparing to commence his own streak.
Actually, the school in California is the “other” USC. The University of South Carolina was established before California was even a state.
If the University of South Carolina would like to be the real USC, they’re going to have to win about 1,000 more football games and catch up.
Didn’t USC in CA go to “SC” ?
What a waste product. You get a chance to play football in the best conference in America, and get a free education, and you piss it away. He doesn’t have the talent to play at the next level. You’d thing the people surrounding him, like family/friends, would pull him aside and explain reality to him. Right now he’s just another idiot athlete that forgot about the privilege that it is to play college football.
When Clowney arrives Garcia will be a moot point.
The guy even looks like a “TOOL”! Your right he doesn’t have the skill set to play at the next level. He barely has the skills to play at this level. I wonder if he naturally feels this entitled or did his family convince him of his superiority to all other individuals as a child. Everyone tells their kids that they are unique (and every child is unique in their own normal right), but I have a feeling that his family allowed him to believe that he is even more unique than Jesus was!
Just get rid of him. He still doesn’t get it, after all the arrests and suspensions?
This isn’t his first suspension. Or his second. Or third……
It would be one thing if he was a great QB, but he really is an overrated prospect. Lattimore is the star of that offense, but you can count on Garcia to make the Ball Coach slam his visor down more than once a game.