S.C. State: It is time for an S.O.S.

S.O.S.? That’s State of State, and before the South Carolina State Bulldogs take the field for the 2008 season, a year in which they will face Central Florida and Clemson, as the favorites for the MEAC title what better time to look at the school’s athletic programs as a whole?

You should have been there last year. If you were a South Carolina State fan, you really should have been there. Cleve McCoy was slickly dressed, Marshall McFadden couldn’t stop smiling and the two players stood next to proud former Bulldogs head coach Willie Jeffries and current SCSU head man Oliver “Buddy” Pough in the stands at Oliver C. Dawson Stadium (see photo below).

Outside the stadium, across the road, a bus sat with its engine warming. For the first time in 100 years of football, the South Carolina State football team was going to play a College Bowl Subdivision team – Air Force. It was a highlight. The South Carolina game was a highlight to...

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