Meet USC Upstate, which is not for the squeamish

Harrison Barden-USA TODAY SportsThis USC team has Upstate problems, which are way way worse than Uptown Problems. So much worse. Oh god, the horrors.

I feel like NC State has played the exact same garbage team about five times this year—new coach, bunch of new players, coming off a terrible season and having another, and on and on the same. So this is USC Upstate, the latest in that litany of moribund programs with no hope of near-future success in even the most generous sense conceivable.

Upstate fired both its athletics director and men’s basketball coach Kyle Perry following last season. Perry spent exactly one year as the head coach after spending a long time serving as an assistant. Now…