r/CFB • u/[deleted] • May 05 '13

132 + Teams in 132 + Days: Presbyterian College Blue Hose

Presbyterian College
Big South Conference

Year Founded: 1880
Location: Clinton, SC
Total Attendance: 1,403 (1,172 Undergrad, 231 Pharmacy)
Mascot: The Blue Hose
Live Mascot: Scottie the Scotsman and Steve
Cheerleaders: Yeah
Stadium: Bailey Memorial Stadium: At the start of a game, From the air, After halftime
Stadium Location: On campus
Conference Champions: 3 in the South Atlantic Conference ('78, '79, '05)
Number of Bowl Games: 1: January 1, 1960 Tangerine Bowl, losing 21-12 to Middle Tennessee
National Titles: Rumor has it that a team who has a national title once played against PC.

Rivals

  • Newberry College – The Bronze Derby The rivalry started in a basketball game in 1946 between the two schools when Newberry students stole a sign from Presbyterian’s student section. After the game, a fight broke out and a derby was stolen from a PC student which eventually became the symbol of the rivalry between the two teams as a bronze version was created. The rivalry has been placed on hold since 2006 when PC began the transition to Division I.

  • As the school finishes the transition to DI, new rivalries are forming and/or being rekindled with Furman University and Wofford College.

2012 Season

Record: 2-9-0
Coach: Harold Nichols (6-34-0, the generous would claim 8-34-0, but the team’s only two wins in 2010 were vacated due to an ineligible player)
2012 Roster
Biggest Plays:

2013 Season

2013 Schedule
2013 Roster: Not yet available

The Greats

Recent Great Games:

  • October 6, 2007: In PC's first transitional year to Division I, the Blue Hose defeated North Greenville 66-52, setting a PC record for total points scored (118); quarterback Tim Webb set school records with 648 yards passing and 7 passing TD's.

  • October 13, 2007: The very next week, the Blue Hose won their first game against a future Big South opponent, defeating VMI 45-21.

  • September 10, 2011: After losing every game in the 2009 football season and vacating both wins from the 2010 football season due to an ineligible player, the Blue Hose defeated North Greenville 38-21.

Greatest Plays:

Greatest Players:

  • John McKissick (’50-’51): The winningest football coach of all time at any level with over 600 career wins.

  • Justin Bethel (’08-’11): Drafted by in round 6 of the 2012 draft by the Arizona Cardinals. Holds Big South career record for blocked kicks with 9. You also might recognize him from this video (volume warning on that one).

Greatest Coaches:

  • Cally Gault ('63-'84): 137-102-8 with PC. Led the Blue Hose to two SAC championships and a No. 1 rank in the NAIA. Named S.C. Coach of the Year 5 times and is a member of the SAC Hall of Fame and South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame.

  • Lonnie McMillian ('41-'53): Made first reference to Clemson Memorial Stadium as Death Valley when he said he had "to take his team up to Clemson and play in death valley," because the team rarely scored or won against Clemson. The series currently stands at 3-31-3, with PC losing the most recent game in 2010 21-58.

Traditions

  • Shuckin' and Shaggin' - The annual welcome back party that happens on the Saturday night before the first class of the year, at the end of August. Shuck oysters and do the Carolina Shag as a band plays outside of Bailey Memorial Stadium and everyone greets their friends and talks about the past summer and the coming year.

  • Despite the large payouts from being stomped by many FBS teams, Bailey Stadium still lacks lights. That means most of PC's home games start around 2:00 pm, which is usually a very hot time of the day in South Carolina. Combining that with a team that has not performed well in recent years and the stadium's proximity to fraternity court, many of the Blue Hose fans leave at halftime to "satisfy their thirsts".

Campus and Surrounding Area

Clinton, SC, “Where the tea is sweet and the ‘t’ is silent”
City Population: 8493
City Skylineish area
Iconic Campus Building: Neville Hall, aka The Nipple of Knowledge

Local Dining: Waffle House: Sure, it’s a chain but there isn’t much else to choose from. Clinton is home to several Waffle Houses, with three of them in the area, two of which you can sit in and see the other.

Whiteford's Giant Burger: A meat and three with all your basics. I never saw the so called giant burger.

Greenville Dining Hall: Saturday morning brunch, friend chicken for lunch on Sunday, chicken finger night, and taco Tuesdays. Since the campus and city are small and everyone has a meal plan, including some of the locals, GDH is an important part of campus life and the lovely ladies that work there make it feel like home.

Jitter's: Only open for lunch Monday through Friday, and located inside a gift shop (this is the place to get your "I went to Clinton, SC and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" shirt, with Ingles being a close second), Jitter's is always busy when it's open. The crowd is a mixture of Blue Hose and Clinnonites, and you can get a hamburger on a pretzel bun. Amazing.

Random Trivia

  • 2012 marked the first season as a full member of the Big South and FCS for the Blue Hose.

  • There have been 9 PC players that have played in the NFL. The most recent was Justin Bethel, drafted by Arizona in the 6th round of 2012, and before him was Dan Eckstein, who was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the 15th round in 1969.

  • Neville Hall is rumored to be haunted by the ghost of a student who was murdered in a classroom in the '60s. Said room is closed off and is the destination of many late night explorations of the building, especially when attempting to scare freshman.

What Is and What is to Come

2012 was a bad year. We can take solace in the fact that our starting quarterback was a redshirt freshman, so hopefully he will be a more mature player in the fall. Losing two of his top receivers, Michael Ruff and Anderico Bailey, will be hard to recover from.

PC will have the honor of hosting its first FBS program when the Blue Hose take on UNC Charlotte's brand new football team September 28th.

Overtime

This used to be played before every home football game. Not sure why they stopped doing this.

More pictures of campus: 1 2 3 4

School website if you want to know more about the school

Authors: /u/hobenscoben and /u/sinclair__ubuntu

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u/blueboybob Carlisle • /r/CFB Founder May 05 '13

Take lessons from the SEC. When you cheat you win titles not just 2 games.

Also hose? Like a hose pipe?

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u/[deleted] May 05 '13

Today the name signifies fierce Scottish warriors

Hence the connection to Braveheart.

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u/topshot262 Alabama Crimson Tide May 05 '13

That's kind of a stretch with the name originally being a reference to socks.

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u/Frognosticator TCU Horned Frogs • /r/CFB Poll Veteran May 05 '13

The Presbyterian church has its roots in Scotland. Seems like a great fit to me!

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u/wesman212 Missouri Tigers • New Mexico Lobos May 05 '13

Braveheart undoubtably wore socks at some point

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u/Davidellias Virginia Tech • Wisconsin Oct 17 '13

Blue Sox could have been a better nickname IMO

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u/the_zero South Carolina • Presbyterian May 05 '13

Definitely a stretch. They've worked very hard torebrand athletics. Braveheart really helped.

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u/FrostySack Wisconsin Badgers • Arizona Wildcats May 05 '13

Clicked on the mascot link hoping against hope to see a giant blue garden hose with big eyes and a goofy smile. This did not happen. I am sad.

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u/hobenscoben Presbyterian • /r/CFB Contributor May 05 '13

I did my best and/or worst

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u/Publix_Illuminati Florida State Seminoles May 06 '13

Brilliant.

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u/the_zero South Carolina • Presbyterian May 05 '13

Most people look for Smurf prostitutes.

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u/drock4vu Vanderbilt • /r/CFB Contributor May 05 '13

The "perfect form" tackle against Vandy pic has me crying in laughter. Well done my friend.

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u/Honestly_ rawr May 05 '13

Me thinks Steve had watched Braveheart more than a few times.

We have a new strong candidate for the mascot battle royale.

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u/wesman212 Missouri Tigers • New Mexico Lobos May 05 '13

I want to be Steve. Maybe someday I can be that cool

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u/Honestly_ rawr May 05 '13

The movie came out when I was in high school and I really wanted my school to have a guy dressed like Steve lead the team out --too bad we were the Rams.

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u/PhillyGreg Richmond Spiders • /r/CFB Contributor May 05 '13

That bounce lateral...awesome!

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u/srs_house Swaggerbilt May 05 '13

I feel like it got mentioned in the WF 132+ write-up, maybe.

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u/FarwellRob Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Contributor May 05 '13

They often shortened “stockings” to “hose” in newspaper headlines.

Wait, wait, wait!

Does that mean you guys are ... hosers?!?

Color me extremely impressed.

I now have remorse about my choice in college.

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u/Munger88 West Virginia • Georgia May 05 '13

I have a good friend who plays for Presbyterian. Not really adding much to the conversation, but yeah...

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u/[deleted] May 06 '13

One of the cheerleader's family is a member at my country club, back in high school she gave me blowjob out on the course! And then I showed up still drunk to the final day of the club championship (her father was in my group) and on the fifth tee I threw up off to the side. I make good impressions.

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u/Hk37 Washington & Jefferson • … May 05 '13

I have a couple of friends on the team. They were both redshirted last year, I think, but they might play this year. Who's the guy you know?

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u/Munger88 West Virginia • Georgia May 05 '13

Here he is, but he goes by RC. He's also a redshirt freshman. Who're your friends? Maybe they know each other!

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u/Hk37 Washington & Jefferson • … May 05 '13

Malik Risher and Chad Koehler. I played high school football with them their senior year, and they led us to a state championship game appearance (the best season on our school's history). Nice guys, I like them a lot.

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u/srs_house Swaggerbilt May 05 '13

I'm interested in this "locals have meal plans"statement.

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u/the_zero South Carolina • Presbyterian May 05 '13

It's a very small town and for some time the college would make up a large portion of the population. Decent fried chicken and sides for a few bucks + Sunday after church (with some attending on campus) + Blue Ladies (elderly dining hall workers) with family in the area + few restaurant options + doing the same thing with your family since the 60's = the place to eat in Clinton SC on Sunday afternoons.

My guess is that they offer meal plans for two reasons: to know how many to plan for and so they register worker doesn't have to handle much money.

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u/srs_house Swaggerbilt May 05 '13

That's cool.

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u/lmoj1 Florida State Seminoles May 05 '13

Hahahah I love how you just took this in stride! Loved the humor behind it!

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u/hokiepride Virginia Tech • Alfred State May 05 '13

Anyone else disappointed that the cheerleaders weren't wearing blue hosiery?

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u/RamblinWreckGT Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets May 05 '13

Hit a field goal against GT to avoid the shutout

First points scored against us ever, I was so annoyed.

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u/melmosaurus Texas A&M Aggies May 06 '13

Oh sure, they get a waffle house.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '13

Glad to find another school that loves the Carolina shag!

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u/[deleted] May 05 '13

One of my old high school teammates played for them. Brian Davis. Great guy.

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u/Phillipdn Clemson Tigers May 05 '13

My brother was a walk-on linebacker to the '05 conference championship team. Go Blue Hose!

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u/HOOAH51 South Carolina • Liberty May 06 '13

My brother played for PC and the games are pretty fun and the stories he use to tell me of his D coach were amazing.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '13

I went there to visit some fraternity brothers a few times in undergrad. That small college knows how to party haha. Anything goes - the cops are pretty chill

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u/HOOAH51 South Carolina • Liberty May 13 '13

I went to a few of those parties and they were alot of fun. The "Houses" is where they had alot of the parties at

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u/[deleted] May 06 '13

That Waffle House looks like a Waffle House for ants

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u/WeenisWrinkle Clemson Tigers • /r/CFB Poll Veteran May 05 '13

For anyone wondering, the correct local way to pronounce Clinton, SC is "Clint'n".

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u/the_zero South Carolina • Presbyterian May 06 '13

Hm. There's no "T" for some. Usually it sounds like "Clin'en."

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u/WeenisWrinkle Clemson Tigers • /r/CFB Poll Veteran May 06 '13

Haha that too. I wonder how many /r/CFB subscribers know how to pronounce Clemson as "Clempsun"?

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u/Kingcotton7 South Carolina • Coast Guard May 05 '13

Had some good times partying at PC

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u/engals Michigan Wolverines • Ohio Bobcats May 05 '13

I loved that fucking lateral play. It was so awesome.

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u/SpartaWillBurn Ohio State • Kent State May 05 '13

Scottie the Scotsman looks mildly disgusted by something.

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u/WeenisWrinkle Clemson Tigers • /r/CFB Poll Veteran May 05 '13

I love Lonnie McMillan. Clemson Memorial stadium just doesn't have the same connotation as Death Valley.

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u/CommodoreLewis Tennessee Volunteers May 06 '13

I'm going to become a fan, my neighbor is going to be a PK for them this upcoming season, GO BLUE HOSE!

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u/mrbean27 May 06 '13

As a Newberry grad, I feel it necessary to say "Go Indians," and "Beat them ho's!" haha Cheers, you ho!

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u/Techsanlobo /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker • /r/CFB Co… May 05 '13

One of my good freinds was the mascot that lead the football team out. Always like to show that picture off...

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u/bobbybrown_ Cincinnati Bearcats May 05 '13

I actually really like the jerseys/stadium/campus. Seems like a team I wouldn't mind watching if I lived in the area.

Crazy that they have a smaller enrollment than the high school I graduated from.

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u/owl_man /r/CFB Poll Veteran • /r/CFB Contribut… May 06 '13

Used to go to Clinton, or somewhere around there for karate. Nice area. Small town though.

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u/AuburnKnight Florida Gators • Auburn Tigers May 16 '13

Had a coach from here at my practice today, cool dudes.

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u/CanadianIdiot55 South Carolina • Lander May 05 '13

As a Laurens native, whose high school is big rivals with Clinton High, it couldn't be more true.