Palmetto Proving Grounds

Personally, I hope that never happens. I'd like to see Clemson get better and better. I want them at their best, and I want to see us beat them at their best. I want the nation to recognize that THIS is the best rivalry in the country.

It's much better to have an enemy you respect than one you pity IMO.

There is something to this and I've even discussed it with a few Clemson fans before. Many of them do not hate South Carolina like we hate Clemson. I chalked that up to our football series record over the last 30 years. I grew up during this time and if I needed a new reason to hate Clemson sadly I generally only needed to wait until November when they'd beat us again. Our record against them from 1980-2005 was atrocious. I've always found that my hatred of them was always more vicious in years after we lost than in years after we won. If you start beating them all the time you have more of the lesser years and kids growing up during that era will feel differently. Clem kids, if they survive past the formative years given their poor breeding genes and tendency to be eaten by house pets, will hate Carolina much more than their parents if this continues. Just how it is. Time for the shoe to be on the other foot.

I like pitying them. Feels right.

You must be relatively young. No way in hell I could ever stop hating Clemson!

That day will NEVER come

you don't understand, the opposite of love is not hate, it is apathy. Thats what I am dreaming for. I graduated over 30 years ago, third generation grad, live in the upstate. I have many reasons to dislike orange.

The more we beat them, the more my desire to continue to beat them goes up. The more I desire to continue to beat them, the more and more I hate them.

I'm not quite there yet either.

Even if there's a fire!