"I've learned how immature I really was. I just didn't know exactly how important everything was until after I made all of those mistakes. I was trying to be like every other college kid, but you can't do that as a starting quarterback for an SEC team. L

It was another banner year for Steve Spurrier and the South Carolina Gamecocks. The ‘Cocks followed up their first SEC East divisional title in program history in 2010 with their first ever AP Top 10 finish in 2011. South Carolina won 11 games including

Coach James Franklin has done a excellent job in changing the culture around Vanderbilt football, yet the South Carolina Gamecocks will still win the game in 2012. One good reason is USC's defense will be too good and the 'Dores will not have any luck sc

The last time Stephen Garcia visited Buccaneers headquarters, he was a hot-shot quarterback at Jefferson High, headed for a big-time college football program. Times, and circumstances, have changed. Garcia returned to One Buc Place on Saturday to partici

New Penn State football coach Bill O'Brien is quickly putting his own stamp on the program. The Nittany Lions' predawn winter workout outside the Lasch Football Building Friday highlighted many of the stark differences between O'Brien's approach and that

LITTLE ROCK FOOTBALL Spurrier to meet with NCAA South Carolina Coach Steve Spurrier and 10 other university coaches, leaders and officials will be in Los Angeles today through this weekend to appear before the NCAA Committee on Infractions. The NCAA sai

IT'S SOUTH CAROLINA football coach Steve Spurrier's time in the NCAA crosshairs today. Spurrier and 10 other university coaches, leaders and officials will be in Los Angeles this weekend to appear before the NCAA Committee on Infractions. The NCAA says t

Adrian Byrd was skeptical when he heard a couple of guys were recruiting him to mentor young football players. It wasn’t a stretch, really. Byrd was a caseworker with the welfare board. And, ever since his son Damiere was a young kid, Byrd had coached at

Wofford College's football team will play a particularly tough road schedule t

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — It’s South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier’s time in the NCAA crosshairs on Friday. Spurrier and 10 other university coaches, leaders and officials will be in Los Angeles this weekend to appear before the NCAA Committee on Infractions

COLUMBIA -- It’s South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier’s time in the NCAA crosshairs on Friday. Spurrier and 10 other university coaches, leaders and officials will be in Los Angeles this weekend to appear before the NCAA Committee on Infractions. The NCAA

If Oregon wants to win a national championship, they're going to have to beat somebody from the SEC. And don't think that the Razorbacks are going to be much easier than LSU last year or Auburn the year before that. With Tyler Wilson maturing nicely and

The Gamecocks first target at the quarterback position is a good one. Christian Hackenberg has seen his stock rise in the recent months as he is up to 10 offers so far including offers from Florida, Tennessee, Penn State and Alabama. The 6'4" signal call

A football dynasty peaking has a sound, or at least one football dynasty did. Jacquez Green, running one of five well-plotted and endlessly rehearsed curlicue routes in Steve Spurrier's offense, went up for a ball in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl and met the shou

Earlier this month, South Carolina reeled in its second straight top 20 recruiting class nationally. But the biggest acquisition this offseason for the Gamecocks may have been who they kept. Offensive line coach/running game coordinator Shawn Elliott was

The Alabama machine can't be stopped, and Nick Saban has solved college football. What will it take for the Tide to be unseated? Feb 14, 2012 - A football dynasty peaking has a sound, or at least one football dynasty did. Jacquez Green, running one of fi

Getty Images Nick Saban, Les Miles and Steve Spurrier lead the SEC's top coaching staffs. Now that we’ve gone through our position rankings in the SEC for the 2011 season, the only thing left is the coaches. The head coach is obviously a big part of thes

The Gamecocks lost their star running back Marcus Lattimore midway in the 2011 season but also lost a few other players that could have helped at key times like Akeem Auguste or Shon Carson. This issue is not as important as others but for USC to make it

Reggie Barlow and the Hornets had just battled Texas Southern to the wire in the 2010 Southwestern Athletic Conference Championship Game, a fairly remarkable accomplishment for an Alabama State football program still under NCAA probation. ASU was just tw