When the subject of of ace pitcher Sam Dyson comes up, Ray Tanner goes into his Roden sculpture pose. Tanner cocks his elbow and his fist moves to his chin. Dyson is “The Thinker” on Tanner’s South Carolina baseball team.
IF THIS REALLY is the time to play Auld Lang Syne and the final curtain at last falls on Sarge Frye Field today, the University of South Carolina’s longtime baseball home marches into history with so many memories worth keeping.
Yes, yes, yes, Lou Holtz saw his South Carolina teams struggle — and sometimes drift aimlessly out of control — in the final two seasons before his retirement from coaching. His micro-managing and undercutting his assistants almost guaranteed that scenario.
