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the man who will be kinG Spurrier Closes in on All-Time Wins Mark — and Another Piece of History B Y D AV I D C L O N I N G E R
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t’s no coincidence that the name of South Carolina’s career wins leader means “king” when translated from Latin. Rex Enright, even 57 years after coaching his last game, continues to hold USC’s career coaching wins mark, with 64 victories in 15 seasons.
Except that he now has company. Steve Spurrier notched his 64th career win at USC last week with a victory over Wofford; he’s now tied with Enright for career wins in just his eighth year at the helm. While Spurrier claimed it was no big deal, and that the only reason he said he cherished the record when he was hired was to show that he’d be around for a while, it did please him to know that he was joining some elite company. “The only reason I said that was a goal of mine was because I wanted people to know I would be here 8-10 years, and go from there,” Spurrier said before the Wofford game. “That’s the reason I said that. I said it the first year, that that was my goal. Hopefully it will happen, but it hasn’t happened yet. Hopefully it will. We’ll just wait and see.” Spurrier will get his 65th win sooner or later; when he does, he’ll be the all-time winningest coach at two SEC schools. The only other man to do that was some dude named “Bear” who wore a houndstooth hat everywhere he went. Spurrier also has a chance to do it in the middle of his eighth season; it took Enright 15 years, split over two engagements, to get 64. With the Wofford win tying him at 64, naturally the focus turned to the next game for the record-breaker. That brought forth another crack at history, against the team that everyone connected with USC wants to see USC beat.
Taming the Tigers
Clemson awaits on Saturday, the Tigers trying to polish off an 11-win season that won’t win them an Atlantic Coast Conference title but might put them in a BCS bowl game. Spurrier has a chance to notch his magical 65th win against his archrival, to take a senior class that has already won more
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games — 35 — than any other group of seniors in school history to another victory, to keep the Gamecocks aiming for a goal of 11 wins this year to tie last year’s highwater mark, and to tie Enright in one more category. The only other time the Gamecocks beat Clemson in four consecutive seasons was from 1951-54, when Enright was winding down his career. No USC coach has ever beaten the Tigers five straight times. Spurrier has watched his Gamecocks pummel the Tigers for three straight seasons — including two where, as they do now, the Tigers had a high-flying offense. He can keep adding to his legacy with a fourth. Many laughed at Spurrier when he took Carolina job. Many national analysts — most notably ESPN talking head Lee Corso — said the Head Ball Coach was foolish to try another stint at college, especially one that had never had any sustained success. There was nothing to gain by tarnishing his legacy. But Spurrier took the Carolina job because he knew that his legacy had already been a bit tarnished — his disastrous twoyear stint in the NFL told him that. USC was willing to give him a chance, and although Spurrier probably could have waited for another more traditional winner to come along, he said yes. The wins have become numerous and expected. If the Gamecocks win 11 games this year, they’ll have 22 in two years and 31 in three years — quite an accomplishment considering that a dozen years ago, USC was coming off a 1-21 mark over two seasons. It’s stretches like that that painted the USC program as a graveyard, where too many coaches had gone to start a legacy and instead left in disgrace. Under Spurrier, the program finally achieved a lasting status of being above .500 lifetime, and it’s telling that his eight years ranks third in coaching
Coach Steve Spurrier during the team’s walk at the old farmer’s market across from Williams-Brice Stadium on Sept. 15. photo by John Powell/Sideline Carolina
tenure, behind Paul Dietzel’s nine and Enright’s 15. Nobody else stayed — or wanted to stay — that long. “We’ve had some really good coaches here, guys with winning records,” Spurrier said. “I guess Rex Enright is the only coach that has really coached more than about 10 years or so. Coach Dietzel was what, eight or nine, something like that? They had a lot of coaches with winning records. Coach Enright overall did not have a winning record, but he is the winningest coach here and so forth. It is always interesting looking at history and sort of see what’s happened.”
The Comeback King Spurrier’s tenure at USC didn’t start so well. He lost his first three SEC games in 2005, the final a 48-7 blistering at Auburn that at the time was the second-worst SEC loss of his career. He rose above that to turn the 0-3 start into a 5-3 finish, including the Gamecocks’ first win over Tennessee at Knoxville’s Neyland Stadium and the first win over Florida since 1939. But the Gamecocks slipped to a 3-5 SEC mark in 2006. In 2007, Spurrier boasted about how he felt in the first year that he had the talent to win the conference at USC, and the season began with a 6-1 start that had the Gamecocks ranked No. 6. A shocking home loss to Vanderbilt sent the Gamecocks spinning; they didn’t win again, finishing 6-6 and missing a bowl game for the only time in Spurrier’s tenure. It took time, full of mistakes and other foibles, to get back. Two straight crushing bowl losses in 2008 and 2009 — to Iowa and Connecticut, respectively — begat an SEC East championship in 2010, but a drubbing
in the SEC Championship Game and another bowl loss, this one to Florida State, rubbed some of the shine off the year. But then came 2011, where the Gamecocks won 11 games and a bowl game, 30-13 over Nebraska, despite losing their starting quarterback and starting tailback halfway through the year. Then this year, where USC rose as high as No. 3; back-to-back road losses knocked the team down to Earth, but it still has a chance to win 11 games. Spurrier has returned to the wise-cracking head man that he was at Florida, perhaps not at the level of smugness but knowing that he has a good team of good kids. The jokes and one-liners are much more present these days; the headaches of dealing with problem players is in the past. The analysts might be right, that Spurrier might not ever win an SEC title at USC. While Spurrier says he’s having fun and has no plans to leave anytime soon, the clock will catch up to the 67-year-old coach soon. Many coaches coach into their 70s — Kansas State’s Bill Snyder is 73 and leads the No. 2 team in the country at press time — but Spurrier has constantly said that he could never see himself coaching that long. Who knows what will happen? USC will lose a bunch of key seniors who’ve meant a lot to the program after this year but will return key pieces to this year’s success. Football works in strange ways — the Gamecocks’ 5-3 record in 2010 was good enough to win the SEC East, but a 6-2 record over the past two years hasn’t been. Spurrier might get another chance to win the SEC and add yet another crown to his head — one that already sports many more than the namesake that he’s about to pass.
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Recruit to Watch BY CHRIS CLARK
Defensive Tackle Kelsey Griffin HEIGHT: 6-2 WEIGHT: 282 HOMETOWN: Hoschton, Ga. HIGH SCHOOL: Mill Creek CLASS: Senior
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outh Carolina’s coaching staff entered the 2013 recruiting cycle with a small but important need on the defensive side of the ball: To sign a talented defensive tackle or two to add to a defensive front that is quickly becoming recognized for being stocked with top-flight talent. The staff zeroed in on one of the Southeast’s best defensive tackle prospects, Mill Creek (Ga.) High School’s Kelsey Griffin. The 6-foot-2, 282-pounder is not only one of the best tackles in the region, but one of the best overall prospects in the country. The four-star defender checks in at No. 144 in the latest edition of the 2013 Rivals250 (ranking the nation’s top prospects), the 12th-best prospect in Georgia and the 12th-best defensive tackle in the country. Numerous top programs pursued Griffin: Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Mississippi State, Ole Miss and Tennessee were several of the programs aware of his talents. Griffin’s recruitment was an interesting one to watch. He visited USC in April for the Garnet and Black Spring Game and gave the trip a very positive review. However, over the
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next few months it was home-state school Georgia that would battle the Gamecocks to land Griffin. In October, Griffin made a verbal commitment to Georgia at his school in a ceremony, only to reverse course on it shortly thereafter because things did not work out with the Bulldogs coaching staff. Quickly, the Gamecocks’ staff was able to take advantage. “The whole Georgia thing went the wrong way,” Griffin says after announcing his commitment to USC. “I ended up going back to South Carolina and giving them the chance they deserved.” Griffin made it clear that he is going to be happy in Columbia. “The facilities are great, the coaches are great, and everything about it is great,” he says. “There is nothing I can complain about. When they got a chance to call me, they were on it and they called me. [Defensive line coach Brad] Lawing is a great coach. [Quarterbacks coach G.A.] Mangus is a great guy. There’s nothing else I can ask for. I think I fit in at South Carolina and trust coach Lawing with what he’s going to do and how he’s going to do it.” Mill Creek coach Shannon Jarvis holds his prized pupil in high regard. “He is an aggressive player,” he says. “We have worked with him on using his hands, and he likes to play a lot with speed and quickness and that fits perfectly for what they do.” Jarvis also pointed out that while Griffin brings a lot of ability to the field, it is his offthe-field attributes that make him special. “Kelsey is just a great kid,” he says. “He is going to make any team better just because of the person he is and the love he has for his teammates. That is the hidden jewel in all of this. When the South Carolina coaches, players and fans get to know him more in the coming years, they are going to be even happier with this.”
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Clemson Nothing More Than Paper Tigers OPINION BY JAMES HARLEY
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n the minds of many, Dabo Swinney has turned Clemson’s football program around since taking over for Tommy Bowden in the middle of the 2008 season. After taking a couple of years of abuse, Swinney is beginning to be embraced by the fans, who have gone from decrying him as a ridiculous cheerleader to accepting him as a coach.
in the SEC. This trend isn’t going to turn around any time soon, slowly but surely sending the ACC down the path towards Big East status, settling for what it can get. But for now, the Tigers can enjoy being one of the two holdout teams in a conference that people want to still respect. They can draw the talent to stand out in the ACC, but not to compete at the national level, as the bowls will continue to show. As will the rivalry. As mentioned, Clemson’s recent forays into the adult world have not just been failures, they have been humiliating. Last year’s 70-33 Orange Bowl loss made history as one of the biggest bowl beat-downs ever, and the Tigers haven’t come within 17 points of beating the Gamecocks in the current string of defeats. Yet, Clemson fans have deemed the
But while his numbers have definitely improved over the last two years, the fact is Swinney is simply benefiting from the overall weakness of the ACC and its continuing decline. Clemson can dominate its conference, but who couldn’t? On the rare occasions the Tigers have stepped outside the ACC to face a major-conference foe, they’ve been tamed. The notable exception is this year’s win over Auburn — but considering Auburn is having its worst season in over a decade, that win doesn’t beef up Clemson’s profile. The Tigers, too, have fallen flat in postseason play, suffering humiliating losses to Big East schools: a 31-26 loss to South Florida in the 2010 Meineke Car Care Bowl in 2010; and last year’s 70-33 depantsing by West Virginia in the Orange Bowl. Meanwhile, South Carolina owned the in-state rivalry for the past three seasons, a level of futility not seen in 40 years. (Oh, by the way, West Virginia just scored again.) Even Clemson’s in-conference wins have lost all luster, with Virginia Tech, another supposed ACC powerhouse, Devin Taylor sacks Clemson's Tajh Boyd during third-quarter fading away along with the rest of the action at Williams-Brice Stadium on Nov. 26, 2011. conference. Florida State still holds some Photo by Travis Bell/Sideline Carolina power, but basically for the same reason Clemson does — there are not many tough Gamecocks “overrated” for their strong posiguys around anymore. For Clemson to lose tion in the polls this season, despite multiple any conference game is now an upset — not tough road losses. because the Tigers are all that great, but rathTake a look in the mirror, Tigers. Beat er because they are surrounded by kittens. someone worth bragging about, and you What has kept Clemson afloat at this might get some respect. Of course, you’ll point is clearly its stellar recruiting classes, have to wait for the bowl to do that, because but those aren’t going to last much longer. a real defense isn’t going to give you the 30Face it: The ACC lives in the same neighborplus points you’re used to racking up. hood as the SEC, which is continuing to Maybe next year. cement its reputation as the best and most examined conference. Any talented kid in the Keep up with Harley’s Side Line blog at free-times.com region who wants to compete at the highand his Side Line column in the weekly edition of est level and also be seen as a great player is Free Times. much more likely to accept an offer to play
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gamecocks roster No. Name
Pos. Hgt. Wgt. Cl. Hometown/High School/Last College
No. Name
1 Ace Sanders 3 Akeem Auguste
WR 5-8 175 JR CB 5-9 188 SR
3 4 4 5 5 5 6 6 7 7 8 8 8 9 9 10 11 11 12 12
WR CB WR CB QB TE CB WR TB DE DE WR PK SPR WR WR LB QB WR SS
5-9 168 5-10 189 6-1 173 5-11 172 6-1 210 6-3 219 6-1 208 6-1 196 5-8 192 6-6 256 6-6 215 6-1 214 6-1 196 5-10 179 6-4 206 5-7 184 6-2 209 6-2 195 5-11 201 5-11 205
67 Ronald Patrick 70 Kyle Harris 70 Byron Jerideau
13 Patrick Fish 13 Tyler Hull
P P
6-0 193 RS SO 6-2 205 RS SO
14 15 15 16 16 17 17 18 18 19 19 20 21 21 22 22 23 24 24 25 26 26 27 28 28 29 29 30 31 31 32 33 34 34 35
Connor Shaw Andrew Clifford Jimmy Legree Austin Hails Nick St. Germain Chaz Elder Dylan Thompson Cedrick Cooper Dwayne Duckett Landon Ard Kyle Fleetwood T.J. Gurley DeVonte Holloman Marcus Lattimore Kaiwan Lewis Brandon Wilds Bruce Ellington Kendric Salley Quin Smith Kadetrix Marcus Jacob Baker Kenny Robinson Victor Hampton Mike Davis Jared Shaw Chaun Gresham Blair Lowery Sidney Rhodes Jordan Diaz Kenny Miles David Wilkins Damario Jeffery Joshua Blue Mason Harris Jeff Homad
QB QB CB QB PK CB QB LB WR P/K SAF SAF SPR TB LB TB WR RB LB SS FB FS CB RB FS LB TB CB LB TB CB LB TB LB TE
6-1 207 6-2 212 6-0 189 6-2 212 5-9 182 6-2 187 6-3 212 6-2 215 6-0 185 5-9 189 5-11 199 5-10 183 6-2 241 6-0 218 6-0 225 6-2 218 5-9 197 5-9 205 6-1 239 6-1 185 5-9 188 5-9 176 5-10 197 5-9 216 5-10 179 6-2 266 6-1 178 5-10 170 6-1 236 5-9 193 6-1 180 6-4 233 5-7 167 6-3 210 6-2 225
JR RS JR RS JR RS FR FR FR RS SO RS FR FR RS FR FR FR SR JR FR SO SO FR SR SO SR RS SO RS SO FR RS SR RS JR RS SR SO RS SO RS SR RS SR SR SO RS FR RS SO
36 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 54 55 57 58 59 61 62 65
D.J. Swearinger Jessie Dukes Kyle Madden Connor McLaurin Jordan Diggs Qua Gilchrist Gerald Dixon Ty Sutherland Darian Sims Reginald Bowens Marcquis Roberts Devin Potter A.J. Cann Cody Waldrop Phillip Dukes Corey Robinson Clayton Stadnik Shaq Wilson T.J. Johnson Aldrick Fordham Ryland Culbertson Coleman Harley Travis Ford Davis Moore Brock Stadnik
FS DB FB FB SPR FB DE FB LB LB SPR FB OG OG DT OT OC LB OC DE OG LS OC LS OT
6-0 210 5-11 162 6-3 248 6-0 222 6-0 197 6-1 245 6-2 272 5-10 220 6-2 250 6-3 254 6-1 206 5-10 202 6-4 309 6-2 300 6-3 306 6-8 337 6-3 265 5-11 224 6-6 319 6-4 269 6-4 254 6-1 280 6-3 278 6-0 217 6-5 287
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Damiere Byrd Ahmad Christian Shaq Roland Rico McWilliams Brendan Nosovitch Kelvin Rainey Chris Moody DeAngelo Smith Shon Carson Jadeveon Clowney Darius English Shamier Jeffery Adam Yates Sharrod Golightly Kwinton Smith Nick Jones T.J. Holloman Seth Strickland Jody Fuller Brison Williams
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Bradenton, Fla./Manatee Hollywood, Fla./Chaminade-Madonna/Fork Union Military Sicklerville, N.J./Timber Creek Jacksonville, Fla./Trinity Christian Lexington, S.C./Lexington Hampton, Ga./Lovejoy Allenton, Pa./Central Catholic Yulee, Fla./Yulee McDonough, Ga./Henry County Kingsland, Ga./Camden County Scranton, S.C./Lake City Rock Hill, S.C./South Pointe Powder Springs, Ga./McEachern St. Matthews, S.C./Calhoun County Sparks, MD/Hereford Decatur, Ga./Southwest Dekalb Dillon, S.C./Dillon Moore, S.C./Byrnes Atlanta, Ga./St. Pius X Laurens, S.C./Laurens Monroe, N.C./Sun Valley Warner Robins, Ga./Northside/Fork Union Military Shelby, N.C./Burns Mount Airy, N.C./Mount Airy/Guilford College Flowery Branch, Ga./Flowery Branch Tampa, Fla./Wharton Beaufort, S.C./Beaufort Collinsville, Ill./Collinsville Powder Springs, Ga./McEachern College Park, Ga./Banneker Boiling Springs, S.C./Boiling Springs Lithonia, Ga./Lithonia Columbia, S.C./Spring Valley/Gray Military Rock Hill, S.C./South Pointe Stone Mountain, Ga./Stephenson Cairo, Ga./Cairo Charlotte, N.C./South Pointe Duncan, S.C./Byrnes Hammonton, N.J./St. Joseph Blythewood, S.C./Blythewood Moncks Corner, S.C./Berkeley Williston, S.C./Williston Elko Lenoir, N.C./Hibriten Stone Mountain, Ga./Stephenson Ridgeland, S.C./Thomas Heyward Academy Hilton Head Island, S.C./Hilton Head Island Darlington, S.C./Darlington Stone Mountain, Ga./Stephenson Fort Mill, S.C./Fort Mill/Newberry Auburn, Ga./Apalachee Irmo, S.C./Dutch Fork Easley, S.C./Wren/Western Carolina Hamilton, N.J./Hamilton West Lawrenceville, Ga./Brookwood Cowpens, S.C./Broome Columbia, S.C./Columbia Tatum, S.C./Marlboro County Fort Oglethorpe, Ga./Ridgeland Hilton Head Island, S.C./Hilton Head Island/ UNC Pembroke Greenwood, S.C./Greenwood Blackville, S.C./Blackville-Hilda Powder Springs, Ga./Harrison/UCF Raleigh, N.C./Garner Cape Coral, Fla./Island Coast Abbeville, S.C./Abbeville/Butler County CC Rock Hill, S.C./South Pointe Pendleton, S.C./Pendleton Goose Creek, S.C./Goose Creek Holly Springs, N.C./Garner Powder Springs, Ga./McEachern Granite Falls, N.C./South Caldwell Bamberg, S.C./Bamberg-Ehrhardt Seffner, Fla./Armwood Manning, S.C./Manning Havelock, N.C./Havelock Greensboro, N.C./Western Guilford Jacksonville, Fla./First Coast Aynor, S.C./Aynor Jamestown, S.C./Timberland Laurens, S.C./Laurens Academy Aiken, S.C./South Aiken Fork, S.C./Lake View/Coastal Carolina Buford, Ga./Mill Creek/Emory & Henry Greensboro, N.C./Western Guilford
Pos. Hgt. Wgt. Cl. Hometown/High School/Last College
OG 6-2 305 JR Cocoa, Fla./Cocoa OC 6-3 268 RS FR Silver Creek, Ga./Pepperell DT 6-1 316 RS SR Green Pond, S.C./Colleton County/Fort Scott C.C. 71 Brandon Shell OT 6-6 331 RS FR Goose Creek, S.C./Goose Creek 74 Kaleb Broome OG 6-6 332 SR Aiken, S.C./Aiken/Georgia Military College 75 Will Sport OT 6-5 291 RS FR Milton, Fla./Pace 76 Mike Matulis OT 6-5 274 SO Boynton Beach, Fla./Park Vista 77 Mason Zandi OT 6-9 266 FR Chapin, S.C./Chapin 78 Cody Gibson OT 6-7 278 RS SO Tallahassee, Fla./Lincoln 80 K.J. Brent WR 6-4 184 RS FR Waxhaw, N.C./Marvin Ridge 81 Rory Anderson TE 6-5 218 SO Powder Springs, Ga./McEachern 82 D.L. Moore WR 6-5 198 RS SR Bowling Green, Ky./Bowling Green 84 Tevin Bradshaw WR 5-7 155 RS FR Moncks Corner, S.C./Berkeley/Brevard 84 Mike Williamson P 6-1 190 RS JR Norway, S.C./Orangeburg Prep/Columbia University 85 Kane Whitehurst WR 5-11 170 RS FR Duluth, Ga./Chattahoochee/Arkansas 86 Reilly Madden P 6-0 185 FR Vienna, Va./Paul VI Catholic 87 Justice Cunningham TE 6-4 264 SR Pageland, S.C./Central 88 Drew Owens TE 6-6 236 RS FR Charlotte, N.C./Ardrey Kell 89 Jerell Adams TE 6-6 224 FR Pinewood, S.C./Scott’s Branch 90 Chaz Sutton DE 6-5 248 RS JR Savannah, Ga./Jenkins/Fork Union Military 91 Walker Inabinet LS 5-10 204 RS SR Columbia, S.C./Hammond School 92 Gerald Dixon, Jr. DT 6-3 304 RS FR Rock Hill, S.C./Northwestern 93 Deon Green DE 6-4 290 RS FR Windermere, Fla./Olympia 94 Ashton Holmes DE 6-3 252 RS JR Spartanburg, S.C./Byrnes/Butler CC 95 Michael Washington DE 6-3 228 FR Allendale, S.C./Allendale-Fairfax/S.C. State 96 Jamal Hall DE 6-2 232 RS JR Ladson, S.C./Fort Dorchester/Brevard College 97 J.T. Surratt DT 6-2 295 RS SO Winston-Salem, N.C./Parkland 98 Devin Taylor DE 6-8 267 RS SR Beaufort, S.C./Beaufort 99 Kelcy Quarles DT 6-4 286 SO Hodges, S.C./Greenwood/Fork Union Military
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coaches Steve Spurrier - Head Coach Kirk Botkin - Linebackers/Spurs Grady Brown - Secondary/Assistant Special Teams Coordinator Shawn Elliott - Co-Offensive Coordinator/Offensive LIne Brad Lawing - Defensive Line G.A. Mangus - Quarterbacks Joe Robinson - Special Teams Coordinator/Tight Ends Everette Sands - Running Backs Jamie Speronis - Associate AD/Football Operations Steve Spurrier Jr. - Co-Offensive Coord/Wide Receivers/Recruiting Coord Lorenzo Ward - Defensive Coordinator Robbie Liles - Director of High School Relations Scott Morgan - Recruiting Assistant Patrick Shine - Administrative Coordinator for Recruiting
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WR depth
1 Ace Sanders 4 Shaq Roland 6 DeAngelo Smith
WR WR
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5-8 175 JR-2L Bradenton, Fla. 6-1 173 FR-HS Lexington, S.C. 6-1 196 JR-1L Kingsland, Ga.
57 Aldrick Fordham 44 Gerald Dixon
Offense
Bruce Ellington Ace Sanders Damiere Byrd Shaq Roland K.J. Brent DeAngelo Smith
5-9 5-8 5-9 6-1 6-4 6-1
197 175 168 173 184 196
SO-1L JR-2L SO-1L FR-HS FR-RS JR-1L
Moncks Corner, Bradenton, Fla. S.C. Sicklerville,S.C. N.J. Lexington, Waxhaw, N.C. Kingsland, Ga.
WR WR
82 Bruce D.L. Moore 23 Ellington OR 10 Nick Jones 3 Damiere Byrd Damiere 803 K.J. BrentByrd
6-5 5-9 5-7 5-9 5-9 6-4
198 197 184 168 168 184
SR-3L SO-1L SO-1L SO-1L SO-1L FR-RS
Bowling Corner, Green, Ky. Moncks S.C. Moore, S.C.N.J. Sicklerville, Sicklerville, Waxhaw, N.C.N.J.
LT WR
53 D.L. CoreyMoore Robinson 82 71 Nick Brandon Shell OR 10 Jones 3 Damiere Byrd 50 A.J. Cann 75 Corey Will Sport 53 Robinson
6-8 198 337 SO-SQ 6-5 SR-3L 6-6 184 331 SO-1L FR-RS 5-7 5-9 168 SO-1L 6-4 309 SO-1L 6-5 337 291 SO-SQ FR-RS 6-8
Havelock,Green, N.C. Ky. Bowling Goose Creek, Moore, S.C. S.C. Sicklerville, N.J. Bamberg, S.C. Milton, Fla. Havelock, N.C.
6-6 6-6 6-3 6-4 6-3 6-5
Goose Creek, S.C. Aynor, S.C. Silver Creek, Bamberg, S.C.Ga. Fork, S.C. Milton, Fla.
LG LT C LG RG C RT RG TE RT QB TE FB QB TB FB
23 1 43 80 6
Offense
71 55 70 50 61 75
Brandon Shell T.J. Johnson KyleCann Harris A.J. Travis Ford Will Sport
331 319 268 309 278 291
FR-RS SR-3L FR-RS SO-1L JR-1L FR-RS
67 T.J. Ronald Patrick 55 Johnson 74 Kyle KalebHarris Broome 70 61 Travis Ford 71 Brandon Shell 78 Ronald Cody Gibson 67 Patrick
6-2 319 305 SR-3L JR-1L Aynor, Cocoa,S.C. Fla. 6-6 6-6 268 332 FR-RS SR-SQ Silver Aiken,Creek, S.C. Ga. 6-3 6-3 278 JR-1L Fork, S.C. 6-6 331 FR-RS Goose Creek, S.C. 6-7 305 278 JR-1L SO-1L Cocoa, Tallahassee, 6-2 Fla. Fla.
74 87 81 71 89 78
Kaleb Broome Justice Cunningham Rory Anderson Brandon Shell Jerell Adams Cody Gibson
6-6 332 SR-SQ Aiken, S.C. 6-4 264 SR-3L Pageland, S.C. 6-5 331 218 FR-RS SO-1L Goose PowderCreek, Springs, Ga. 6-6 S.C. 6-6 278 224 SO-1L FR-PG Tallahassee, Pinewood, S.C. 6-7 Fla.
14 87 17 81 11 89
ConnorCunningham Shaw Justice DylanAnderson Thompson Rory Seth Strickland Jerell Adams
6-1 6-4 6-3 6-5 6-2 6-6
207 264 212 218 195 224
JR-2L SR-3L SO-1L SO-1L SR-2L FR-PG
Flowery Branch, Pageland, S.C. Ga. Boiling Springs, Springs,Ga. S.C. Powder Laurens, S.C. Pinewood, S.C.
43 14 41 17 11 31 28 43
Qua Gilchrist Connor Shaw Connor McLaurin Dylan Thompson Seth Strickland Kenny Miles MikeGilchrist Davis Qua
6-1 6-1 6-0 6-3 6-2 5-9 5-9 6-1
245 207 222 212 195 193 216 245
SR-SQ JR-2L SO-SQ SO-1L SR-2L SR-3L FR-HS SR-SQ
Abbeville, S.C. Flowery Branch, Ga. Raleigh, N.C. Boiling Springs, S.C. Laurens, S.C. Lawrenceville, Ga. Lithonia, Ga. Abbeville, S.C.
41 Connor McLaurin
6-0 222 SO-SQ Raleigh, N.C.
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31 Kenny Miles 28 Mike Davis
5-9 193 SR-3L Lawrenceville, Ga. 5-9 216 FR-HS Lithonia, Ga.
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8 Adam Yates 19 Landon Ard
6-1 196 SR-1L 5-9 189 FR-RS
Sparks, Md. Rock Hill, S.C.
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8 19 8 19 13 13 8
6-1 5-9 6-1 5-9 6-2 6-0 6-1
Sparks, Md. Rock Hill, S.C. Sparks, Md. Rock Hill, S.C. Mount Airy, N.C. Shelby, Md. N.C. Sparks,
19 Landon Ard
5-9 189 FR-RS
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6-2 205 SO-TR Mount Airy, N.C. 6-0 193 SO-SQ Shelby, N.C.
Adam Yates Landon Ard Adam Yates Landon Ard Tyler Hull PatrickYates Fish Adam
196 189 196 189 205 193 196
SR-1L FR-RS SR-1L FR-RS SO-TR SO-SQ SR-1L
DT DE DT DT DE DT MLB DE WLB MLB SPR WLB CB SPR SS CB FS SS CB FS CB
6-1 6-8 6-3 6-4 6-2 6-4 6-2 6-1 6-3 6-3
316 267 304 269 272 286 295 316 306 304
SR-2L SR-3L FR-RS SR-3L FR-RS SO-1L SO-SQ SR-2L FR-RS FR-RS
Green Pond, Beaufort, S.C.S.C. Rock Hill, S.C. Jamestown, S.C. Rock Hill, S.C. Hodges, S.C. Winston-Salem, Green Pond, S.C.N.C. Manning, S.C. Rock Hill, S.C.
997 90 97 52 47 33 7
Jadeveon Clowney Kelcy Quarles ChazSurratt Sutton J.T. Phillip Dukes Reginald Bowens Damario Jeffery Jadeveon Clowney
6-6 6-4 6-5 6-2 6-3 6-3 6-4 6-6
256 286 248 295 306 254 233 256
SO-1L SO-1L JR-2L SO-SQ FR-RS SR-2L SR-3L SO-1L
Rock Hill,S.C. S.C. Hodges, Savannah, Ga. N.C. Winston-Salem, Manning, S.C. Holly Springs, N.C. Columbia, S.C. Rock Hill, S.C.
90 54 24 47 18 33
Chaz Sutton Shaq Wilson Quin Smith Reginald Bowens Cedrick Cooper Damario Jeffery
6-5 5-11 6-1 6-3 6-2 6-4
248 224 239 254 215 233
JR-2L SR-3L SR-3L SR-2L FR-RS SR-3L
Savannah, Ga. Jacksonville, Fla. Lenoir,Springs, N.C. N.C. Holly Lithonia, Ga. Columbia, S.C.
6-2 5-11 5-10 6-1 6-2 5-10 5-10 6-2
241 SR-3L SR-3L Jacksonville, Charlotte, N.C. 224 Fla. 179 SR-3L SO-1L Lenoir, Decatur,N.C. Ga. 239 215 FR-RS Lithonia, Ga. 197 SO-1L Darlington, S.C. 189 SR-3L FR-RS Charlotte, Jacksonville, 241 N.C.Fla.
9 12 28 27 4 36 25 12 28 3 OR 36 15
Jared Shaw Akeem Auguste Jimmy Legree D.J. Swearinger
3 Akeem Auguste OR 15 Jimmy Legree
5-10 5-9 6-0 6-0
179 188 189 210
SR-SQ SR-3L JR-2L SR-3L
vs. East Carolina W, 48-10 09/15/12
vs. UAB W, 49-6
09/22/12
vs. Missouri h W, 31-10
09/29/12 at Kentucky h 10/06/12 vs. Georgia h
w, 35-7
10/13/12
at LSU h L, 23-21 L, 44-11
Fort Mill, S.C. Hollywood, Fla. Beaufort, S.C. Greenwood, S.C.
6-1 185 SO-SQ Stone Mountain, Ga. 5-9 188 SR-3L Hollywood, Fla. 6-0 189 JR-2L Beaufort, S.C.
10/27/12
vs. Tennessee h W, 38-35 11/10/12
vs. Arkansas h W, 38-20 11/17/12
*Note: The depth chart lists 12 offensive positions.
KR LS PR H LS
09/08/12
at Florida h
*Note: The depth chart lists 12 offensive positions.
KR
W, 17-13
10/20/12
Sharrod Golightly 5-10 179 SO-1L Decatur, Ga. Brison Williams 5-11 205 SO-1L Warner Robins, Ga. Jared Shaw 5-10 197 179 SO-1L SR-SQ Darlington, Fort Mill, S.C. Victor Hampton 5-10 S.C. Ahmad Christian 5-10 189 FR-RS Jacksonville, Fla. D.J. Swearinger 6-0 210 SR-3L Greenwood, S.C. KadetrixWilliams Marcus 5-11 6-1 205 185 SO-1L SO-SQ Warner Stone Mountain, Ga. Brison Robins, Ga.
25 Kadetrix Marcus
vs. Wofford
23 Bruce Ellington 3 Damiere Byrd
1 Specialists PR 27
South Carolina vs. Wofford u November 17, 2012
Defense
Byron Taylor Jerideau Devin Gerald Dixon Jr. Aldrick Fordham Gerald Dixon Kelcy Quarles J.T. Surratt Byron Jerideau Phillip Dixon DukesJr. Gerald
21 Shaq DeVonte Holloman 54 Wilson Sharrod Golightly 249 Quin Smith 18 Cedrick Cooper 27 Victor Hampton Ahmad Christian 214 DeVonte Holloman
at Vanderbilt h
w, 38-17
6-8 267 SR-3L Beaufort, S.C. 6-4 269 SR-3L Jamestown, S.C. 6-2 272 FR-RS Rock Hill, S.C.
70 98 92 57 44 99 97 70 52 92
Specialists
Rock Hill, S.C.
Defense
08/30/12
5-9 197 SO-1L 5-9 168 SO-1L
23 3 91 59 1
Ace Sanders Victor Ellington Hampton Bruce Damiere Byrd Walker Inabinet Coleman Harley Ace Sanders
5-8 5-10 5-9 5-9 5-10 6-1 5-8
175 197 197 168 204 280 175
27 11 13 91
Victor Hampton Seth Strickland Patrick Inabinet Fish Walker
5-10 6-2 6-0 5-10
197 195 193 204
59 Coleman Harley
Moncks Corner, S.C. Sicklerville, N.J.
JR-2L Bradenton, Fla. SO-1L Moncks Darlington, S.C. S.C. SO-1L Corner, SO-1L Sicklerville, N.J. SR-2L Columbia, S.C. FR-RS Bradenton, Aiken, S.C.Fla. JR-2L SO-1L Darlington, S.C. SR-2L Laurens, S.C. SO-SQ Shelby, N.C. SR-2L Columbia, S.C.
6-1 280 FR-RS
Aiken, S.C.
15
W, 24-7
11/24/12
at Clemson 7 p.m.
usc VS clemson