COLUMBIA — A new position coach and voice in the room couldn’t change the fact that South Carolina’s line cannot block.
It definitely couldn’t change the overall football fact that if the line can’t do its job, its team cannot score.
The Gamecocks’ incredibly inept offense found a new grade of stink against a ferocious Oklahoma defense in a 26-7 loss on Oct. 18, placing USC (3-4, 1-4 SEC) squarely on a fulcrum with five games to go. Either the Gamecocks find some solution to their inability to dent the scoreboard or they’ll check into the annals with a losing record — not strange around these parts but definitely a head-scratcher how USC managed to not even get to a bowl game a year after nine wins and returning the most gifted quarterback in program history.
And with Alabama, Ole Miss,