Former Gamecock football coach Lou Holtz is in hospice care
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South Carolina and Virginia Tech have mutually agreed to cancel home-and-home football series that was scheduled for the 2034 and 2035 seasons, a university source confirmed to The State on Friday.
South Carolina's roster and staff saw a number of changes this offseason. Here's a quick recap of those moves as winter workouts are underway.
The cancellation, first reported by Doug Bowman of VTScoop, comes just a few months after the SEC and ACC announced they’d shift to nine-game conference schedules.
Shane Beamer and the South Carolina football team lost a defensive assistant to the Big 12 last week. Former Gamecocks defensive assistant Jordan Dove has accepted a position at Kansas State. Dove is listed as the Kansas State defensive tackles coach. He started in the role on Jan. 20, he told The State.
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Gamecock football ends the transfer portal window welcoming 25 new players to roster, headlined by new experience on the offensive line, several running backs with years of eligibility, and some new juice on the defensive end.
Nnabugwu becomes the eighth offensive lineman to commit to the Gamecocks out of the transfer portal, further revamping a South Carolina O-line room that gave up an SEC-worst 43 sacks in 2025.
Recruited out of Alabama, Munnerlyn’s first offer was from South Carolina, and the Gamecocks were one of the few schools that continued to recruit him hard despite some academic uncertainty. USC head coach Steve Spurrier and assistant Ron Cooper kept calling his house, kept making visits to Mobile, and perhaps most-importantly, kept wowing his mom.
Shortly after the 2025 season concluded, offensive line coach Randy Clements was named to the position on the same day that Kendal Briles was signed as South Carolina’s offensive coordinator. The coaching
Helms, a former standout offensive lineman at South Carolina, was a candidate at Chapin two years ago before the school hired Cole. He spent one season at Pelion, where he led the Panthers to a 5-6 record and a trip to the Class 2A playoffs. The five wins were the most for the program since 2014.