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It’s been a frustrating season for South Carolina and its fans.
The head coach resigned on Oct. 12. The team is 3-8. The Gamecocks lost to an FCS school – The Citadel – on Saturday. Next week, they have to play the No. 1-ranked team in the country.
Frustrated with the Gamecocks and their coaching staff, one desperate fan has come up with a desperate idea: Let fans call the plays. And he’s asking the President of the United States for help.
A fan named Thomas Sumter has started a petition on change.org, requesting that fans be allowed to call plays on Twitter next week when South Carolina faces No. 1 Clemson. He addressed the petition to U.S. President Barack Obama and South Carolina athletic director Ray Tanner.
“Gamecock fans are eager to share their opinions – especially on Twitter,” the petition reads. “Many of them are constructive and some are just downright hilarious. The fans should be able to have a voice on the field for the last game in this era of South Carolina football. As a matter of fact, the fans should have THE voice on the field. They’ve sat through an inexplicable collapse of a once highly-comptetitve [sp.] football program.
“South Carolina’s opponent and rival, Clemson, is the #1 team in America and will probably beat the Gamecocks by 4+ touchdowns either way. So why not let the fans live-tweet which plays the Gamecocks should run as the game is happening? We could use polls or just pick the best tweeted play out of the bunch. What is the worst that could happen?”
There’s no word on how interim South Carolina head coach Shawn Elliott feels about Sumter’s idea.
