Alan Piercy is the author of A Gamecock Odyssey: University of South Carolina Sports in the Independent Era (1971-1991). The following was originally published on Alan’s South By Southeast newsletter. Revisiting a conversation with the late, great Tommy Moody Like many, I got the news on a Tuesday night in mid-October last year. After embarking upon a few minutes of mindless social media scrolling before lights out, I ran across a Twitter/X post from Jay Philips of Columbia’s 107.5 The Game that broke the horrible, unbelievable news. Tommy Moody had passed. I had spoken with Tommy just four da…