Heading into his team’s Week 4 matchup with Auburn football at Jordan-Hare Stadium, Georgia State head coach Shawn Elliott was taking shots while being interviewed by the press.
On his way out of the Plains after his Panthers couldn’t stop the rise of TJ Finley in the fourth quarter, Elliott kept his combative spirit intact.
His target this time was a team he knows intimately through his time coaching at South Carolina…
The lowly Vanderbilt Commodores:
Talk about throwing shade. Asked about the crowd at Auburn, Georgia State coach Shawn Elliott had this to say: “People cheer. You go to any school in the SEC, except for maybe Vanderbilt, and people are cheering.”
— Alex Scarborough (@AlexS_ESPN) September 26, 2021
Elliott took over in the second year of the Gamecocks’ current 11-year win streak when he was hired by South Carolina in 2010. He knows a thing or two about the noise (or lack thereof) at Vanderbilt Stadium.
Vandy is currently in the midst of a 1-3 season that includes losses to East Tennessee State of the FCS, and yesterday saw Georgia march to Nashville and beat the Commodores by the same score that Auburn football beat Alabama State by.
When it comes to a football program that legitimately may need to be relegated to see any success whatsoever, look no further than the Music City’s SEC basement dweller.
If it weren’t for Vanderbilt baseball being a perennial contender and the basketball team appearing in six Sweet 16’s, it’d be a lot easier of a task to accomplish.
Elliott’s Panthers are now 2-2 and have certainly improved after two humbling blowouts to Army and UNC. That they only leave East Central Alabama with a Week 4 loss because the Tigers backup QB played hero of the day backs up all of his smack talk.
Well, not the shots taken at the pregame eagle flight. Keep the names of Independence, Aurea, and Spirit out of your mouth.