Welcome to Five Points

[cufan]

I live in Columbia and have been in and around five points in my younger days. I still go down there during the day for lunch or to walk around, but at night I avoid anything but driving through on the way home.

I bring this up because I hear gamecock fans talk about what a bonus five points is to the school and recruiting, over "that country school in the upstate."

http://www.thestate.com/2011/06/24/1871754/jogger-assaulted-in-five-points.html

This is what five points has turned into. At night all the gang wannabe's show up and try to act tough. The interesting point in the article is how they tried to attack other people earlier, but they escaped. Where is this "heavy police presence" that gamecock fans give for excuses when players get arrested?

[cubarb1991]

God bless the kid. Hope he heals quickly. Geez...what in the WORLD is a 13-yr-old doing out at midnight. Craziness

[CLE802A]

I don't know of any Gamecock fans who consider Five Points as a bonus to the school and/or recruiting. I know college-aged people want to go out and have a good time to relieve the stress and monotony of college studying and classwork - as well as getting to meet and mingle with other college students - but from my experiences most consider Five Points to simply be a place for USC college students-athletes to stay away from. Particularly the younger, less-mature ones, who do not know quite how to have a good time with some responsibility and order.

It would be nice if USC was located in a small town where the police there are major fans of the school and will bend over backwards helping out the Athletic programs whenever their student-athletes get into trouble, refraining from arrests and instead calling the coaches up and letting them control what happens next. We instead exist in a city where the police will act as most police do.

In contrast to how lenient the law enforcement is in Clemson to CU athletes, how our police act towards our athletes look almost like storm trooper activity. But in reality they are acting just like any law enforcement in cities anywhere in the US: it's how the police in the upstate act that skews the perception between our two rival fanbases.....

[jlcu91]

Bunch of little punks who think they bad when they with their crew. I wish they would get treated as adults there old enough to know what there doing and they made the decision to do it. You gotta carry a pistol with you just to walk down the street nowadays. Prayers go to the victim.

[sanntick]

I don't think Five Points has this much of importance. And don't linger about it much at nighttime.