Guess who’s back? That’s right, TRC Unleashed but minus Tbone and the Gman. Tbone is on permanent vacation, while Gman was pushed to a third set tiebreaker in his senior league tennis match last night and couldn’t make it.

Thankfully Connor Tapp from 247Sports was able to fill in to review the opener against Coastal Carolina and preview the upcoming tilt against Georgia. Take a listen, we think you’ll enjoy all the hot takes and breaking down of things.

Link to iTunes here, or stream below, and enjoy!

The 2017 season started with an impressive win over a good NC State team and ended with a comeback win over a good Michigan team in the Outback Bowl. In between was a mostly ugly brand of football that featured good, bad and ugly moments, but ultimately ended with nine wins and a positive vibe coming out of Columbia for the future of the program. Buck takes you through all the important moments in the 2017 Gamecock Flashback.

Click to stream below, or listen on iTunes here. And enjoy!

The 2016 Gamecock football season was the first of the Will Muschamp era, and began with the exciting prospect of a new hotshot freshman quarterback leading the offense, and ended with a DIFFERENT hotshot freshman quarterback leading the offense.

In between there were some exciting moments (most notably a win over 18th-ranked Tennessee) and some low moments (most notably…ah I can’t even talk about it.) The season ended with a loss in a thrilling bowl game, but gave hope for the coming years.

So join Buck as we recap 2016 Gamecock football. You can listen on iTunes here, or stream the episode below. Thanks, and enjoy!

The 2015 Gamecock football season began with cautious optimism that Steve Spurrier could rebound the team from a  disappointing 2014 season and get back in the hunt in the SEC East.

Unfortunately, everything went downhill fast after a season opening victory over North Carolina. Losses began to mount and shortly after a historic natural disaster in the the state, Spurrier came to the realization that he wasn’t the man to lead the Gamecocks back to prominence, so he left mid-season.

Shawn Elliott tried his darnedest, but after a 1-0 start to his head coaching career, his team suffered through tough losses to good teams, and then an embarrassing loss to FCS The Citadel. A close loss to Clemson brought to a close one of the most worst seasons in South Carolina football history.

Sound like fun? Hell no it wasn’t fun! But Buck is here to recap every game for you, and remind you to cherish those good times, because they don’t always last. Here’s how to listen:

Stream it here or click the graphic below

iTunes link here

Enjoy!

Buck takes us through the 2014 Gamecock football season – a season with historically high expectations, major disappointments, and a few bright spots mixed in along the way.

You can listen via iTunes here

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/trc-unleashed/id985866000?mt=2

You can also click here or click the graphic to listen, and enjoy!

This blog post and the accompanying audio were originally published Aug. 21, 2014.

OK, you’ve been waiting all summer, and finally, HERE IT IS! No, not the trailer for some new comic book movie you nerd, it’s the 2013 Gamecock Flashback.

After doing 25 flashbacks covering 26 seasons last summer, Buck had all summer to work on one flashback, and we’re somehow certain there will be statistical errors and/or misrememberings and/or horrible edits. But, we’re the only ones doing flashbacks, and you love Gamecock football, so it will still be a good time. (Buck even added some of Todd and Tommy’s best calls from the season to break the monotony of his droning.)

Some highlights:

• Lofty preseason expectations
• The making and breaking of Jadeveon Clowney by ESPN
• The emergence of Mike Davis
• The heroics of Connor Shaw
• The inability of ANYONE ELSE to beat Missouri
• A fifth straight win over that team in the upstate

So click here or click the graphic below, and enjoy!

This blog post and the accompanying audio were originally posted prior to the 2013 season.

The year 2012 was another memorable one for the Gamecock football program, with a blazing start and a return to the top 5 around mid-season. Things would wobble at LSU, then we’d completely fall on our faces at Florida to temporarily derail things. A devestating injury to Marcus Lattimore against Tennessee put a damper on the season, and cast a pall over the entire Gamecock Nation.

But the team rallied and finished the season with a rousing Dylan Thompson-led victory at Little Death Valley, and then a last second victory over Michigan in the Outback Bowl. There weren’t any memorable plays from the Outback Bowl, but hey, a win is a win right?

Click here or click the graphic to listen to the 2012 Gamecock Flashback…

…and enjoy!

This blog post and the accompanying audio were originally posted prior to the 2013 season.

After a long-awaited breakthrough year in 2010, the question for the 2011 Gamecock football team was whether it could match or surpass the previous team’s accomplishments.

Despite falling short of an SEC East title, the 2011 team became the first ever USC squad to win 11 games in a season. They also gave us many exciting moments, including the greatest special teams play in the history of the program, and win streaks over Georgia and previously (seemingly) unbeatable rivals Florida and Tennessee.

A season-ending knee injury to Marcus Lattimore put a damper on the season, but with victories over Clemson and Nebraska to close things out, we finished with our first top 10 finish ever.

Listen along as Buck takes us through all the highs and lows of the 2011 season. Click here or click the graphic below to listen, and enjoy!

This blog post and the accompanying audio were originally posted prior to the 2013 season.

On the heels of the commitment of Marcus Lattimore, USC’s National Championship in baseball and the launch of The Rubber Chickens blog, 2010 was setting up nicely to be a big year for Gamecock football. Which it needed to be, as the Steve Spurrier era had been average at best through 2009.

After a season-opening win over the fighting Larry Fedoras, Lattimore took over the annual battle against Georgia with perhaps the greatest single-game performance in school history. A tough loss at Auburn preceded a monumental win over #1-ranked and streaking Alabama…but then Kentucky.

Fortunately that game didn’t derail our march to the SEC East title, which was clinched with our first ever win in the Swamp. A ho-hum victory over Clemson came right before our first SEC Championship Game, which was a tremendous experience despite the lopsided outcome.

Relive all the magic from 2010 with Buck in this edition of Gamecock Flashback. (Bonus: Justin King videos from the season are here and here.)

Click here or click the graphic to listen, and enjoy!

This blog post and the accompanying audio were originally posted prior to the 2013 season.

The 2009 Gamecocks sprinted out to a 5-1 start despite a schizophrenic offense that managed only seven points in the opener against NC State and 37 in game two against Georgia. USC pulled a Thursday night upset over fourth-ranked Ole Miss, and a young, non-gas-pumping wide receiver named Alshon Jeffery announced himself to the world in a tough win over Kentucky.

After losing four of five during their standard October-November swoon, the Gamecocks rebounded with a satisfying win over Clemson, the first of five in a row.

Thoughts and hopes of a Music City or Chick-fil-a Bowl appearance slowly faded away over the next couple of weeks, and we were left in a frigid Papajohns.com Bowl against Connecticut. Nothing about that trip was pretty, and left us wondering if we were ever truly going to turn the proverbial corner under Steve Spurrier.

Buck takes us through all the highs and lows of 2009 on this edition of Buckshots, so click here or click the graphic to listen, and enjoy!