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MAKING A SPLASH After a decade at Carolina, Steve Spurrier’s impact is immense
ON THE COVER: Steve Spurrier takes a Gatorade bath as the Gamecocks celebrate a victory in the 2012 Capital One Bowl. photo by Travis Bell / Sideline Carolina
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18 RECRUIT TO WATCH Another Big Score Four-star linebacker Sherrod Pittman vaults Carolina’s 2015 class into an elite echelon
5 OPPONENT ROSTER 6 GAMEDAY POSTER 14 SENIOR PROFILE Spur of the Moment Sherrod Golightly lives for the now 16EXPLAINING THE GAME Spuring the Defense What is the “spur” position, anyway?
20 OPINION Started From the Bottom Now We’re Here Big win against South Alabama would be big confidence boost 22 YOUR GAMECOCKS Roster, statistics Published by Free Times free-times.com
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THREE TO WATCH
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Conference: Sun Belt 2013 Record: 6-6 (4-3) 2014 Record: 6-4 (5-3) Series Record: Tied, 0-0 Coach: Joey Jones Years as Coach: 5 Record at South Alabama: 37-25 Last Meeting: N/A (first meeting) Returning Starters: 14 (8 offense,
6 defense)
Brandon Bridge, quarterback
Kendall Houston, running back
Maleki Harris, linebacker
It’s not that Bridge, a senior from Mississauga, Ontario, who was injured in the Jaguars’ game against Troy, has been outstanding under center. His 1,457 yards, 51.5 percent completion rate and 115.3 passer rating are yeoman-like at best. It’s that his replacements have been especially un-outstanding: Starting against Arkansas State, understudy Matt Floyd technically completed half of his 20 passes — but two of them were to Red Wolves defenders. Thirdstringer Hunter Vaughn was worse, completing just one of five passes for four yards with a pick. When he’s on the field, most of the offense runs through Bridge.
Senior Houston and freshman Xavier Johnson — who’ve received the lion’s share of carries since senior Jay Jones went down last month — form a hit-’em-highhit-’em-low backfield tandem, Houston the hulking bruiser to Johnson’s slasher. Consider that both topped the century mark against Troy in late October, with Houston burning the Trojans for 178 yards on 18 carries. Now consider that Troy, allowing 247.9 rushing yards per game, is ranked 120th (of 129 FBS schools) in rushing defense. Now consider that the Gamecocks, a supposed power school from a power conference, rank 112th in rushing defense, allowing 223.4 yards per game. Gulp.
South Alabama’s stingy defense — the Jaguars’ bend-don’t-break defense allows 377.4 yards but just 23.4 points per game, in spite of a 45-10 drubbing at the hands of Arkansas State — offsets the Jags’ meager offense (21 points per game). Senior Harris is the unit’s leader and big-game player: Against No. 1 Mississippi State earlier in the season, Harris racked up 14 tackles. With him absent in the Arkansas State loss, the Jags’ D collapsed, allowing the Red Wolves to convert 10 of 19 third downs, including a third-and-13 conversion. If Harris doesn’t suit up against the Gamecocks, the Jags will need big efforts from defensive lineman Theo Rich (10 tackles for loss, seven sacks) and linebacker Davin Hawkins (50 tackles, five for loss).
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South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier’s headset rests on the sidelines before the start of the East Carolina game at Williams-Brice Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 6. photo by Travis Bell / Sideline Carolina
Making a Splash
After a decade at Carolina, Steve Spurrier’s impact is immense
ing into Saturday’s noon game against South Alabama at Williams-Brice Stadium. A leaky defense is largely to ay Tanner realizes the day is blame for Carolina’s troubles approaching when he must make the this season, although the Dylan offense, while sure-to-be heavily scrutinized decision Thompson-led prolific as far as the numbers that will ultimately define his tenure as South are concerned, has faltered at the worst possible times, as Carolina athletics director. well. An offshoot of the GameJustly or unjustly, most SEC of football games from 2010 cocks’ struggles this season? athletic programs are judged to 2013, going 42-11 over the Steve Spurrier’s future as Carosubjectively by the media wildly successful four-year lina’s head coach. and fans based solely on the stretch. This season, though, The buzz surrounding the accomplishments — or lack has been stained by multiple 69-year old Spurrier and how thereof — of the university’s fourth-quarter collapses, which long he would continue coachfootball team. have Carolina scrambling to ing shifted into overdrive folThe Gamecocks won a lot reach bowl eligibility headlowing the Nov. 1 overtime loss
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to Tennessee, when he walked out of the post-game press conference without taking questions from the media. Suddenly, the whispers started. Would Spurrier coach Carolina after this season? Did he want to? Was he eyeing a hero’s return to Florida if the Gators fired Will Muschamp? Spurrier fed the flames by telling reporters that “the plan is to definitely” return in 2015, but he refused to confirm he would return when asked, contending the best course of action was to wait and see how the final few weeks of the season unfold. So, will Spurrier return as usc VS. S. ALABAMA
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South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier reacts to a Gamecocks miscue during fourth-quarter action against Missouri at Williams-Brice Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 27. photo by Travis Bell / Sideline Carolina
Carolina coach in 2015? Probably. But as coaches everywhere always say: You never say never. But even if Spurrier decides to hang up his coaching whistle and announces his retirement in the near future, his Carolina legacy is lasting. Since taking the reins of the Gamecock program shortly after the conclusion of the 2004 season, he has begotten three commodities in short supply at the time he was hired: stability, sustained success and an upbeat way of thinking. The last Gamecock football coach to last a decade at the helm? Rex Enright, who coached from 1946 to 1955 in his second of two tenures as Carolina coach. After Enright departed, Carolina employed nine coaches between 1956 and 2004. Just two coached Carolina for longer than six years: Paul Dietzel (1966 to 1974) and Jim Carlen (1975 to 1981). What did the constant coaching merry-go-round achieve for Carolina? Very little, except for a memorable 10-win season in 1984 and back-to-back eight-win seasons in 1987-88. Simply, Spurrier has man-
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aged to stop the revolving door of coaches as he nears the end of his 10th season at Carolina. In fact, Sunday, the day after the home game against South Alabama, is the 10th anniversary of his introductory press conference that was watched by Gamecock fans worldwide. “He didn’t have to come here,” Carolina athletics director Ray Tanner says. “That gave us a lot of credibility. It put us on the map in so many ways. It wasn’t like we didn’t have athletics before and a lot of good things happened here, but he magnified it.” Already Carolina’s all-time winningest coach, Spurrier is 81-44 in 125 games (.648) with the Gamecocks. If he continues coaching beyond this season, he will make it very difficult for his successor to catch him in the all-time wins column. Prior to 2011, Carolina had one season with double-digit wins in school history, 1984’s 10-win Black Magic campaign. Now it has four, thanks to three consecutive 11-win campaigns from 2011 to 2013. The Gamecocks have been bowl-eligible in each of Spurrier’s first nine seasons as coach; it’s the longest bowl eligibility streak, by
far, in school history. “He has taken us from a SEC program looking to be extremely competitive to high expectations,” says Tanner. “That’s a great place to be. This year, we’ve lost a couple of close games and people are disappointed. Why were they disappointed? Because their expectations were extremely high. He has created that. He expects to win his next game regardless of whom we’re playing, where we’re playing or where they’re ranked. He expects to figure out a way to win.” The Gamecocks have beaten three straight Big 10 opponents in New Year’s Day bowl games: Nebraska (2012 Capital One Bowl), Michigan (2013 Outback Bowl) and Wisconsin (2014 Capitol One Bowl). Prior to Spurrier’s arrival, Carolina had a total of three bowl wins in school history, all since 1995; Spurrier has four. History might teach us that Spurrier’s biggest contribution to the Gamecocks is more cerebral in nature. “The culture and the mindset have changed,” Tanner says. It’s noticeable every home game at Williams-Brice Stadi-
um. Carolina built the nation’s longest home winning streak (18 games) on the strength of some of the loudest and proudest college football fans in the nation, who dance, sing and happily wave their towels as “Sandstorm” blasts over the loudspeakers for three hours every time the Gamecocks take the field. “He has been invigorating. Being the person that he is and the coach that he is, he has been inspiring to our fan base, the state of South Carolina and his coaching colleagues,” Tanner says. “He is much more than what people see in public. He has met with recruits from other sports. He supports the rest of the coaches. He doesn’t tout those things, but he does them.” The current game-day atmosphere at Williams-Brice would have been unfathomable in the dark of the 1990s, when Carolina struggled to beat mediocre teams at home, and lost far too often. “He has made such a positive impact on our university and our football program,” Tanner says. “It’s been a pleasure to work with the football program under his direction.” usc VS. S. ALABAMA
South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier directs warmups before the Georgia game on Sat., Sept. 13. photo by Travis Bell / Sideline Carolina
Spurrier’s tenure has also coincided with Carolina’s massive, decade-long undertaking to upgrade the school’s onceoutdated athletic facilities. Every corner of WilliamsBrice Stadium has been improved since Spurrier came aboard, from the locker room and training room to the players lounge to the garnetand-black color scheme to the billboards honoring some of the all-time greats to the newly developed and aesthetically pleasing Gamecock Park to the renovated Fairgrounds parking lot to the Athletic Village, where the Rice Athletic Center and Dodie Athletic Center are situated. Coming in 2015: two new lighted practice fields and a new $15 million indoor facility located in the back of Gamecock Park, just a long TD pass away from Williams-Brice Stadium. Simply, everything has
changed from a facilities standpoint since Spurrier arrived. Would these multimillion projects have been possible without Spurrier’s presence in Columbia? Sure, the annual, and ever-increasing, distributions from the SEC office have helped fund many of these projects. Spurrier’s presence, though, has certainly strengthened the willingness (and enthusiasm) of wealthy Gamecock boosters to write hefty seven-figure checks to the school to help pay for these expensive projects. “He is engaged and he helps us in fundraising,” Tanner says. “He is not just a football coach that sits on the sidelines. He helps us meet with donors. He embraces that. He didn’t just say we need new facilities. He has been part of the solution. Our giving levels have increased. He is a big part of that.” Spurrier, of course, has ben-
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efitted financially, as well. His salary has more than tripled in nine years from $1.25 million in 2005 to $4 million this season. He is under contract through the 2018 season, so he would be forfeiting a significant sum of money should he walk away after this season. While the 2014 campaign has failed to meet the lofty expectations set prior to the season, Spurrier is still king of Columbia, and should remain entrenched in that role for as long as he is coach of the Gamecocks. The only question now is for exactly how long. Meanwhile, Carolina enjoys the fruits of having one of the best-known college coaches in the history of the sport on campus. Case in point: Carolina has become the Thursday night darling of ESPN, especially the season-opening game. “One thing he has done by
being here is helping the overall program,” Deputy Athletics Director Charles Waddell said. “It has raised our level of who we are. When we signed him, we went national from a brand standpoint. All the Thursday night games, he said, ‘Bring it on.’ Some coaches don’t want to play Thursday nights. But from an exposure standpoint, he said, ‘I want us to be seen and I want to be out there.’ He embraced it.” Waddell, the athletic department’s football team liaison team since 2006, appreciates what Spurrier has accomplished and his impact on the entire athletics program. “It’s been great to work with him,” Waddell said. “He is not high-maintenance. He is very reasonable to deal with. You can always go down there and sit down with him and talk about stuff. He is very budget conscious. He is not a spendthrift.”
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South Carolina linebacker Sharrod Golightly eyes Florida quarterback Skyler Morninwheg on on Saturday, Nov. 16, at Williams-Brice Stadium. photo by Travis Bell / Sideline Carolina
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Spur of the Moment Sharrod Golightly lives for the now
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hen he talks about the current Carolina football season, senior spur Sharrod Golightly often talks about living in the moment and taking advantage of every opportunity. The Decatur, Georgia, native understands he only has a few more chances in his career to be able to pull on the garnet and black Gamecocks uniform. His last home game is this Saturday at Williams-Brice Stadium, when South Alabama pays a visit for a noon kickoff. It’s a moment that got here a lot quicker than Golightly imagined it would. “It’s kind of surreal, but at the same time I’m trying to live in the moment and take advantage
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of every practice and come out here and be a leader,” Golightly says. “It doesn’t seem that long ago I stepped on campus not knowing what to expect. There’s going to be emotions, obviously, but we still have to go out and take care of business.” The arrival of Golightly and his fellow seniors happens to
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coincide with the beginning of the greatest stretch in South Carolina football history. The 5-foot-10, 187-pound Golightly redshirted in 2010 but was part of three straight 11-2 seasons the past three years. He was a special teams standout in 2011 and 2012 before becoming a defensive leader at the spur position the past two years. Nine members of Golightly’s 24-man freshman class are still on the Gamecocks’ roster, and all are contributors. Marcus Lattimore, Kelcy Quarles, Victor Hampton and Connor Shaw are some of the more well-known names that have moved on from that class, but Golightly feels they formed a bond that will never be broken. “You look at the things we’ve accomplished and it’s almost unbelievable,” Golightly says. “We came to South Carolina to create something special, and I think we’ve done that. I know I will be friends with those guys for the rest of my life.” Golightly has played in 43 games in his career and made
BY Chris dearing more than 90 tackles. Going into the Florida game, Golightly was fourth on the team with 34 tackles and was second with three tackles for loss. He’s come a long way since graduating from the special teams squad to the starting lineup. “He had a lot to learn playing a new position,” linebackers and spurs coach Kirk Botkin says. “He could always see flashes, but he was playing behind some very talented guys, so it was a situation where he had to wait his turn. There are things he still needs to work on, but his contributions far outweigh anything negative. You know you’re going to get maximum effort every time he steps on the field.” Golightly looks back on the past three seasons fondly; he flashes a broad smile every time he’s asked about it. But things turn more serious when the focus is on this season. The record is not what Golightly expected. The Gamecock defense has struggled, and given away fourth-quarter leads against Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee. There’s no chance of recording another double-digit win season. But there are still things to accomplish. A bowl bid is still a possibility, and that is something the current seniors have openly talked about. They want to extend South Carolina’s bowl game streak to seven consecutive years, which would be a first in school history. They want the season to extend beyond the Nov. 29 regular season finale against rival Clemson. They also understand the five-game winning streak against the Tigers will be on the line, and that is something they take great pride in. Golightly says the seniors have rallied together the last few weeks to keep things in perspective. “This season hasn’t gone like we expected but we still have a lot to play for,” Golightly says. “We want to finish the best way we can and we understand the best way to do that is earn a bowl bid and beat Clemson again. You better believe I’m trying to take advantage of every opportunity and go out with a bang.”
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EXPLAINING THE GAME
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South Carolina linebacker Jordan Diggs chases Texas A&M quarterback Kenny Hill on Thursday, Aug. 28, at WilliamsBrice Stadium. Diggs is one of several Carolina defenders to play the spur position. photo by Travis Bell / Sideline Carolina
Spurring the Defense What is the “spur,” anyway?
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t the beginning of the 2014 football season, much was made about South Carolina switch to the more traditional 3-4 look. The Gamecocks coaching staff wanted to take full advantage of what they thought was the strength of the defense: the linebackers. But Gamecock coaches insisted they weren’t abandoning the team’s 4-2-5 formation, which deploys four linemen, two linebackers and five defensive backs. That fifth defensive back serves as the “spur,” a hybrid linebacker/safety just as adept at supporting the run defense as being able to drop back
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in coverage. South Carolina’s had considerable success employing that defense over the years. Antonio Allen, now a starting cornerback with the New York Jets, might have best exemplified the position; DeVonte Holloman was good enough at the spot to be drafted by
the Dallas Cowboys before a neck injury ended his career. “We wanted to have the option of using different looks,” linebackers and spur coach Kirk Botkin says. “We’ve always had the ability to go from three down linemen to four. We were just looking at things differently with the personnel we had. But the spur spot was still going to be a big part of what we do.” Sharrod Golightly, Jordan Diggs and Larenz Bryant have been tasked with manning that spot this season and have done so adequately. “I like it because you get the play the run as much as you do the pass,” says Golightly. “As a true safety, you’re more back of the line, and it’s sometimes hard to be able to come up and support the run defense. At spur, you are up on the line and able to make more plays.”
The spur almost could be called the heart of the Carolina defense. Not only does a player have to be physical enough to come up in run support, but he also needs to have the speed and cover skills to cover a running back or slot receiver. A spur is also counted on to be able to rush the quarterback in various blitz packages. It’s an unconventional look, and one opposing offenses don’t see routinely as a base defense. But its effectiveness is having someone play the position that you have the confidence in a number of roles. “The more things you can do the more valuable you are,” says Botkin. “We tell guys all the time the more positions you can learn, the better off you’re going to be and the more likely you will be able to help us out.” So in other words, it takes a special type of player to play spur. “Spur is not an easy spot to play,” says defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward. “The hardest part is being able to fit that player that is physically able to play close to the line but still have good enough hips and be fluid enough to cover slot receivers and running backs. We’ve had a lot of success using guys in that spot over the years. I think the guys this year have been solid.” Ward says now that there never was any serious thought of doing away with the 4-2-5 defensive scheme entirely. Even though Carolina’s defensive struggles this season have been well documented, there has been great success in the Spurrier era, and the spur position was a big reason for that. “They’re responsible for making calls, getting the defense in the right set and then they have to be able to do a lot of different things at a high level,” Botkin says. “It’s probably one of the more physically and mentally demanding positions on our defense.”
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RECRUIT TO WATCH BY CHRIS CLARK
Another Big Score
L I N E B AC K E R
SHERROD PITTMAN
Four-star linebacker Sherrod Pittman vaults Carolina’s 2015 class into an elite echelon
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outh Carolina picked up a big commitment for its 2015 recruiting class last summer, a pledge who was one of the first in a group that is now ranked in the top five nationally by football scouting site rivals.com. First Coast High School (Jacksonville, Florida) linebacker Sherrod Pittman drew scholarship offers from a host of top college football programs around the country. Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, LSU, Ohio State, Tennessee and many others extended offers to the 6-foot-1, 224-pounder along the way. Several months ago, Pittman spurned them all to make an early commitment to the Gamecocks. “I did it early because I like the depth chart at South
Carolina,” Pittman told Gamecock Central following his August commitment. “I know that I can come in early and play right away. I also really like the coaching staff. I have a great relationship with coach [Steve] Spurrier Jr. I also have a teammate committed to South Carolina [receiver Jerad Washington], and they are recruiting some of my other teammates that are my age as well.” For South Carolina, wide receivers coach Steve Spurrier Jr. is the recruiter of record for Pittman, with an assist from linebackers coach Kirk Botkin. Quality control assistant Shaq Wilson also has a tie to Pittman: Wilson, too, played at First Coast before enjoying a solid career as a linebacker at Carolina. “Coach Botkin told me I’m
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going to play both linebacker spots, and that I’m going to play as soon as I get there,” Pittman said. According to ESPN’s Recruiting Nation scouts, Pittman “plays the game fast and physical and is a relentless pursuer,” and he’s a “powerful tackler with explosive initial pop and strong drive through finish. Though they express concern about Pittman’s lack of ideal size to play inside linebacker and athleticism in space to play on the outside, the scouts still classify Pittman as an ex-
plosive linebacker with great playing strength, and an intense run-and-hit defender who can make disruptive players. After initially classifying his commitment as a soft verbal, Pittman strengthened that pledge after visiting South Carolina back in the spring of this year. (After the Georgia game, Pittman tweeted: “Carolina got that Win !!!”) Although he remains solid to the Gamecocks he plans on utilizing his full slate of official visits, recognizing that he will only get to go through the recruiting process once. Rutgers, South Carolina, Southern California and Central Florida are candidates to get four of the five with one of Alabama, LSU, or Florida State getting the final trip. “I stand good with South Carolina,” Pittman told Rivals. “I always keep in contact with them every day. I call them on the phone, I message them on Twitter or Facebook — I keep in good contact.”
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OPINION BY JAMES HARLEY
ne of the downsides of historic achievements such as South Carolina’s three consecutive 11-2 seasons is the inevitable frustration that comes with regressing to the mean. If you’re a longtime Gamecock fan, you know well what a losing season feels like, and what it feels like when bowl eligibility is achieved with an even or barely winning record. Having that experience makes it somewhat easier to deal with the frustration of a season like the current one. After all, the pride of those double-digit seasons isn’t wiped away completely — we’re just back where we used to be. Still, it hurts to go into a year expecting to compete at a high level and failing to do so, but it’s not the end of the world. For other programs, it has been — take Tennessee, which because of a sense of entitlement ingrained by decades of success impulsively fired one of its all-time best coaches (Phil Fulmer) solely because he had a couple of average seasons following a national championship. The result has been the virtual destruction of the program. While some Carolina fans are beginning to similarly claim that Spurrier’s days are numbered due to this season’s mediocrity, the fact is that with 120 teams competing for the same title, one simply cannot expect to perform outstandingly every single year. No matter how historically strong the program is, it’s natural to have a down season here and there. (See: Florida.) Clearly this year is that kind of year for Carolina. The only question remaining is how bad it will be. Which brings us to this week’s game against South Alabama, an FBS school, but a lesser program by all accounts. Many people criticize the scheduling of such non-power conference opponents, but these games can have a medicinal effect. The Gamecocks, awash in a sea of depressing criti-
cism, need more than a win right now. They need a blowout in order to perk them up and prepare them for the only game that truly matters at this point: Clemson. Big-margin wins boost confidence even when achieved against smaller schools. It was after Carolina’s biggest win of the year — a 41-10 whipping of FCS foe Furman — that the Gamecocks took highly ranked Auburn down to the wire in a game Vegas oddsmakers predicted they would lose by 19 points. Carolina didn’t win, but obviously the performance was much greater than expected based on those ugly losses to Kentucky and Missouri. So what will it take to destroy South Alabama and give the Gamecocks a boost? People have been harping on the failures of the defense, but turnovers on offense have been a big factor in Carolina’s losses as well. If Dylan Thompson could have a Connor Shaw-type performance and avoid turning the ball over, then the defense shouldn’t have a problem handling the Jaguars, who have averaged only about seven points per game in their losses. Even in their wins, the Jags don’t crack the top 100 in scoring average, and boast no significant threats on offense. While a bit better defensively, the Jags gave up 35 points in a 32-point loss to Mississippi State, their only power-conference opponent this season. If anything at all gives South Alabama an edge, it would be the apparently mystical power of the cat. Carolina went into the season with five feline teams on the schedule (Missouri, Kentucky, Auburn, South Alabama and Clemson), and have so far failed to beat any of them. Obviously that’s not an entirely rational consideration, but at this point what is? Given Carolina’s inconsistency, every game seems like a roll of the dice. Gamecocks 48, Jaguars 10.
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GAMECOCK ROSTER NO. NAME
NO. NAME
POS. HGT. WGT. CL.
89 Jerell Adams TE 4 Bryson Allen-Williams LB 81 Rory Anderson TE 19 Landon Ard PK 40 Jacob August TE 29 Matrick Belton WR 80 K.J. Brent WR 23 Larenz Bryant SPR 21 Andrew Bunch WR 1 Damiere Byrd WR 50 A.J. Cann OG 7 Shon Carson TB 16 Zack Cimaglia K/P 18 Cedrick Cooper DE 11 Pharoh Cooper WR 86 Kevin Crosby TE 58 Ryland Culbertson LS 14 Shaq Davidson WR 28 Mike Davis TB 13 Grant Davitte QB 31 Jordan Diaz FB 42 Jordan Diggs SPR 44 Gerald Dixon DE 92 Gerald Dixon, Jr. DT 52 Phillip Dukes DT 17 Chaz Elder FS 5 Darius English DE 18 Patrick Fish P 29 Elliott Fry PK 90 Cody Gibson TE 43 Garrison Gist FB 9 Sharrod Golightly SPR 19 Terry Googer WR 93 Deon Green DT 7 Wesley Green CB 94 Kelsey Griffin DT 14 Ali Groves CB 20 T.J. Gurley SS 15 Austin Hails QB 59 Coleman Harley LS 31 Al Harris Jr. CB 34 Mason Harris DE 84 Matthew Harvey WR 83 Carlton Heard WR 82 Caleb Hines WR 11 T.J. Holloman LB 13 Tyler Hull P 35 Shannon James DB 8 Shamier Jeffery WR 55 David Johnson DE 3 Nick Jones WR 70 Alan Knott OC 99 Abu Lamin DT 3 Chris Lammons CB 8 Kaiwan Lewis LB 46 Cedrick Malone SPR 25 Kadetrix Marcus FS 76 Mike Matulis OT 91 Blake McClain DE 48 Nick McGriff TE 41 Connor McLaurin FB 1 Rico McWilliams CB 6 Connor Mitch QB 6 Chris Moody SS 10 Skai Moore LB 41 Kyle Morini LB 5 Brendan Nosovitch QB 87 Sean Odom WR 10 Perry Orth QB 88 Drew Owens TE 69 D.J. Park OT 30 Darius Paulk FB 49 Devin Potter TB 34 Jonas Price K/P 30 Sidney Rhodes CB 21 Marcquis Roberts LB 53 Corey Robinson OT 55 Na'Ty Rodgers OT 4 Shaq Roland WR 43 Benjamin Russell DB
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6-6 242 6-1 231 6-5 227 5-9 178 6-6 247 6-4 215 6-4 192 6-0 220 5-11 173 5-9 170 6-4 311 5-8 201 6-1 170 6-2 225 5-11 201 6-1 230 6-4 267 5-11 170 5-9 223 6-3 180 6-1 236 6-0 217 6-2 274 6-3 323 6-3 323 6-2 195 6-6 241 6-0 194 6-0 165 6-7 278 5-10 260 5-10 187 6-4 210 6-4 289 5-10 176 6-2 310 5-10 187 5-10 194 6-2 220 6-1 246 5-11 162 6-3 235 6-8 22 8 6-0 188 5-11 160 6-2 234 6-2 207 5-7 153 6-1 198 6-1 275 5-7 168 6-4 280 6-4 302 5-10 172 6-0 228 6-0 201 6-1 194 6-5 307 6-3 265 6-0 220 6-0 243 5-11 184 6-3 211 6-1 210 6-2 213 5-10 221 6-1 221 6-0 190 6-1 204 6-6 238 6-4 328 5-8 199 5-10 203 6-2 165 5-10 182 6-1 216 6-8 344 6-5 280 6-1 176 6-0 175
JR FR SR RS JR FR RS SO RS JR SO RS SO SR RS SR RS JR RS SO RS JR SO FR RS SR FR JR RS FR RS SR RS SO RS SO RS JR RS JR RS SO RS SO RS SR SO RS SR RS JR RS SR FR RS SO FR SO RS FR JR RS JR RS JR FR RS JR RS JR RS JR FR RS SO RS SR RS SO RS JR RS FR RS SR RS FR RS SO FR JR RS SO SR RS JR FR FR RS SR RS SO RS FR RS SO SO RS SR RS SO SO RS SO RS JR RS FR RS SO RS SO RS FR RS SR RS SO RS SR RS FR JR RS FR
HOMETOWN/HIGH SCHOOL/LAST COLLEGE
Pinewood, S.C./Scott's Branch Ellenwood, Ga./Cedar Grove Powder Springs, Ga./McEachern Rock Hill, S.C./South Pointe Columbia, S.C./Cardinal Newman/Fork Union Military Columbia, S.C./Keenan/Hampton Waxhaw, N.C./Marvin Ridge Charlotte, NC./Vance Mt. Pleasant, S.C./Bishop England/Presbyterian Sicklerville, N.J./Timber Creek Bamberg, S.C./Bamberg-Ehrhardt Scranton, S.C./Lake City Charlotte, N.C./Myers Park/North Carolina A&T Lithonia, Ga./Lithonia Havelock, NC./Havelock Bamberg, S.C./Bamberg-Ehrhardt Laurens, S.C./Laurens Academy Gaffney, S.C./Gaffney Atlanta, Ga./Stephenson Columbia, S.C./Irmo Hamilton, N.J./Hamilton West Fort Myers, Fla./Island Coast Rock Hill, S.C./South Pointe Rock Hill, S.C./Northwestern Manning, S.C./Manning Union City, Ga./Banneker Powder Springs, Ga./McEachern Shelby, N.C./Burns Frisco, Tx./Prince of Peace Christian Tallahassee, Fla./Lincoln Rock Hill, S.C./Northwestern Decatur, Ga./Southwest DeKalb Atlanta, Ga./Woodward Academy Windermere, Fla./Olympia Lithonia, Ga./Martin Luther King Buford, Ga./Mill Creek Stone Mountain, Ga./Stephenson Cairo, Ga./Cairo Collinsville, Ill./Collinsville Aiken, S.C./South Aiken Fort Lauderdale, Fla./St. Thomas Aquinas Fort Oglethorpe, Ga./Ridgeland Rock Hill, S.C./Rock Hill Athens, Ga./Clarke Central/Gardner-Webb Cornelius, N.C./Hough Stone Mountain, Ga./St. Pius X Mount Airy, N.C./Mount Airy/Guilford College Florence, S.C./South Florence St. Matthews, S.C./Calhoun County Lithonia, Ga./Lithonia Moore, S.C./Byrnes Tyrone, Ga./Sandy Creek Fayetteville, N.C./Trinity Christian/Fort Scott C.C. Sunrise, Fla./Plantation Pleasantville, N.J./St. Joseph Camden, S.C./Camden/Coastal Carolina Stone Mountain, Ga./Stephenson Boynton Beach, Fla./Park Vista Jacksonville, Fla./Sandalwood Gainesville, Fla./Gainesville Raleigh, N.C./Garner Hampton, Ga./Lovejoy Raleigh, N.C./Wakefield McDonough, Ga./Henry County Cooper City, Fla./University Warner Robins, Ga./White Knoll/Gray Military Allentown, Pa./Central Catholic Orangeburg, S.C./Orangeburg Prep Ponte Vedra, Fla./Ponte Verda/Florida State College Charlotte, N.C./Ardrey Kell Dillon, S.C./Dillon Columbia, S.C./Richland Northeast/North Greenville Granite Falls, N.C./South Caldwell Cockeysville, Md./St. Paul's Easley, S.C./Wren/Western Carolina Powder Springs, Ga./McEachern Havelock, N.C./Havelock Waldorf, Md./McDonough Lexington, S.C./Lexington Atlanta, Ga./Woodward Academy
NO. NAME
POS. HGT. WGT. CL.
POS. HGT. WGT. CL.
9 Deebo Samuel 26 Jasper Sasser 12 Michael Scarnecchia 49 Garrett Shank 71 Brandon Shell 39 Demetrius Smalls 24 D.J. Smith 22 Jamari Smith 75 Will Sport 65 Brock Stadnik 54 Clayton Stadnik 90 Taylor Stallworth 72 Donell Stanley 45 Brandon Sturdivant 97 J.T. Surratt 32 Rod Talley 17 Dylan Thompson 44 Gerald Turner 51 Cody Waldrop 28 Jonathan Walton 51 Devin Washington 95 Michael Washington 85 Kane Whitehurst 22 Brandon Wilds 12 Brison Williams 33 David Williams 47 Drew Williams 77 Malik Young 74 Mason Zandi
WR FS QB SS OT DB DB CB OG OG OC DT OL FB DT TB QB FB OC LB DE DE WR TB SS TB LS OL OT
6-0 192 6-0 203 6-4 189 6-0 203 6-6 333 5-11 170 5-11 189 5-10 197 6-5 291 6-5 287 6-3 273 6-2 293 6-4 346 6-2 218 6-2 310 5-10 201 6-3 218 6-2 250 6-2 309 6-0 228 6-3 221 6-3 237 5-11 169 6-2 222 5-11 208 6-1 214 6-2 201 6-3 318 6-9 301
HOMETOWN/HIGH SCHOOL/LAST COLLEGE
HOMETOWN/HIGH SCHOOL/LAST COLLEGE
FR RS FR FR RS SO RS JR RS FR FR SO RS JR RS SO RS SO FR FR RS SO RS SR RS SO RS SR RS FR RS SO SO RS FR RS JR RS JR RS JR SR RS FR SO FR RS SO
Inman, S.C./Chapman Jacksonville, Fla./Wolfson Fleming Island, Fla./Fleming Island Marietta, Ga./Lassiter Goose Creek, S.C./Goose Creek Bluffton, S.C./Bluffton Marietta, Ga./Walton Jacksonville, Fla./Fletcher Milton, Fla./Pace Greensboro, N.C./Western Guilford Greensboro, N.C./Western Guilford Mobile, Ala./Murphy Floydale, S.C./Latta Fort Mill, S.C./Nation Ford/York Tech Winston-Salem, N.C./Parkland Laurens, S.C./Laurens/Gardner-Webb Boiling Springs, S.C./Boiling Springs Goose Creek, S.C./Goose Creek Seffner, Fla./Armwood Daphne, Ala./Bayside Academy Orlando, Fla./Jones Allendale, S.C./Allendale-Fairfax/S.C. State Duluth, Ga./Chattahoochee/Arkansas Blythewood, S.C./Blythewood Warner Robins, Ga./Northside/Fork Union Military Philadelphia, Pa./Imhotep Charter Irmo, S.C/Dutch Fork Pelzer, S.C./Woodmont Irmo, S.C./Chapin
GAMECOCK Game STATs Passing GP EFFIC COMP-ATT-INT PCT
YDS
TD
LG AVG/G
Dylan Thompson 10 139.69 217-361-10 60.1 2794 22 85 279.4 Pharoh Cooper 10 179.92 2-5-0 40.0 44 1 30 4.4 Connor Mitch 1 89.90 2-4-0 50.0 19 0 14 19.0 Perry Orth 1 0.00 0-2-0 0.0 0 0 0 0.0 Total 10 138.58 221-373-10 59.2 2857 23 85 285.7
Rushing Mike Davis Brandon Wilds David Williams Pharoh Cooper Shon Carson Damiere Byrd Total
GP ATT GAIN LOSS NET AVG TD LG AVG/G 10 9 7 10 10 10 10
Receiving
Pharoh Cooper Nick Jones Mike Davis Shaq Roland Rory Anderson Jerell Adams Brandon Wilds Damiere Byrd K.J. Brent David Williams Shon Carson Shamier Jeffery Cody Gibson Dylan Thompson Connor McLaurin Total
173 83 26 17 16 4 379
895 492 176 139 140 29 2003
20 13 0 1 3 0 243
875 479 176 138 137 29 1760
5.1 5.8 6.8 8.1 8.6 7.2 4.6
9 4 1 1 2 0 20
40 70 37 70 56 14 70
87.5 53.2 25.t1 13.8 13.7 2.9 176.0
GP NO. YDS AVG TD LG AVG/G 10 10 10 9 8 10 9 10 10 7 10 7 10 10 10 10
55 35 24 23 20 17 16 14 6 3 3 2 1 1 1 221
826 433 280 330 231 251 139 197 70 29 21 9 27 14 0 2857
15.0 12.4 11.7 14.3 11.6 14.8 8.7 14.1 11.7 9.7 7.0 4.5 27.0 14.0 0.0 12.9
8 4 1 4 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 23
85 69 34 32 29 45 30 46 19 14 9 5 27 14 0 85
82.6 43.3 28.0 36.7 28.9 25.1 15.4 19.7 7.0 4.1 2.1 1.3 2.7 1.4 0.0 285.7
Top Defensive Players - Tackles
T.J. Gurley Skai Moore Jonathan Walton S. Golightly Gerald Dixon M. Roberts Jordan Diggs Brison Williams
GP 10 9 10 10 10 10 10 10
UA 38 36 27 25 26 15 21 21
A
25 27 19 17 13 16 8 6
TOT 63 63 46 42 39 31 29 27
TFL/YDS
1.0-3 2.0-12 1.0-1 4.5-15 5.0-44 1.5-1 2.0-2 1.0-3
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