It’s time for everyone to get over Ron Morris-Gate

September 22, 2012; Columbia, SC, USA; South Carolina Gamecocks head coach Steve Spurrier enters the field before their game against the Missouri Tigers at Williams-Brice Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jeff Blake-US PRESSWIRE

Fans hate him, Steve Spurrier dislikes him, and the majority of Columbia media members have his back.

Ron Morris, clearly, is many things to many people.

Honestly, I really hate to talk about him, for several reasons.

For one, I’m a fan, and I’ve never liked the guy’s writing, so, like him, I’m writing an article about someone with a personal bias in place that is hard to overcome.

Secondly, I’m sick of hearing about it. It’s dominated the Columbia airwaves the past two days and you can’t walk into a classroom at USC without hearing someone mention the guy’s name.

Finally, everyone is getting mad at everyone else for stupid reasons.

Gamecock fans: You’re mad at Ron Morris for writing an article that portrays a University of South Carolina head coach in a negative manner. Really? Like the guy hasn’t done this before? Hell, he accused Spurrier of “poaching” Bruce Ellington from the basketball team just last year.

I know it’s hard to get used to the gunk that sometimes builds up in the corners of your eyes while you sleep, but like Morris’s writing, you’ve got to learn to just wipe it away when it comes along and forget about it.

Morris is mad at Spurrier for reasons unknown to all but them, but as far I’m concerned, he just has an axe to grind in whatever college town he winds up in.

Everyone just needs to ignore everyone and this situation will go away.

Spurrier, ignore Morris’s questions, but don’t quit talking to the rest of the media it’ll make his job harder without doing the same tot he rest of the media. Morris, ignore Spurrier, it will make your life easier. Fans, ignore Morris. If you don’t read his column, if no one talks about his articles, and if he’s the only one that knows about his work, you guys will have won.

Morris is not a reporter. He is a columnist. He’s paid to give his opinion on USC sports, no matter how factually incorrect they may be. If he was an actual reporter and he reported fictional information about USC sports it’d be impossible for the State not to fire him.

But, again, he’s just a columnist, and frankly, he’s doing a damn good job of making his paper money. Every time he writes something negative about Spurrier, Gamecock fans buy up the paper to see just what kind of garbage he wrote.

I don’t want the guy to get fired, but if you’re pissed off at him so much that you want to cost the guy his job, quit buying the newspaper.

There. Now can we please start looking past Kentucky and blowing the UGA, SC game on 10/6 out of proportions, please?