We continue today’s legislative roundup with this nugget. Eight wins at most top football programs, if done consistently, gets you fired. One eight-win season gets the fans grumbling…even a nine-win season leaves some natives restless. Not at South Carolina.

Eight wins gets you an increase in ticket prices and also a glowing pat on the back from the South Carolina state house:

A HOUSE RESOLUTION

TO CONGRATULATE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA HEAD FOOTBALL COACH STEVE SPURRIER AND THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOOTBALL TEAM FOR AN OUTSTANDING 2006 SEASON WHICH CONCLUDED WITH A TOTAL OF EIGHT WINS INCLUDING A VICTORY OVER HOUSTON IN THE LIBERTY BOWL, IN MEMPHIS, AND FOR BRINGING TO THE GAMECOCK PROGRAM A RENEWED SENSE OF PRIDE AND ACCOMPLISHMENT.

Read the whole thing. It gets better. They commend him for winning a Heisman and titles at a competing school…in a different state. This might also be the first mention of recruiting analysts in a legislative resolution.

It needs to be investigated whether the phrase "the University of South Carolina football team recently concluded an outstanding 2006 season with eight wins including a thrilling high-scoring victory over Houston in the Liberty Bowl in Memphis" can be challenged in court. I expect to see it in negative campaign ads against the sponsors of the resolution.

As much as we know about Spurrier, this resolution probably didn’t come as an honor to him; it was surely an embarrassment to him that these overzealous fans in the state house would fawn all over an eight-win season and a "thrilling" Liberty Bowl win.

Such a legislative act isn’t unprecedented though. We’ve obtained an etching of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia deliberating a resolution to honor Joe Paterno’s first bowl win.