South Carolina Football: Gamecock heights and weights announced
By Kevin Miller
Some other items of note from the South Carolina Football media guide
- South Carolina football has found an assistant strength and conditioning coach to replace the outgoing Byron Jerideau. Jamil Walker, a candidate for the job when Luke Day was hired, will be joining Day’s staff.
- Suspended freshmen Monteque Rhames (4-star defensive end) and Cameron Upshaw (3-star defensive back) are officially not on the roster and listed as “no longer on squad” in the 2023 signing class portion of the media guide. Upshaw has enrolled in junior college, and Rhames is expected to do so, as well. Suspended redshirt freshman Anthony Rose entered the transfer portal earlier this offseason.
- Running back Dante Miller is not listed on the roster. Miller was hoping to receive a waiver from the NCAA granting him a 6th year of eligibility.
- The media guide reports a total of 33 active South Carolina football alums in the NFL.
- The two primary NIL collectives for the Gamecocks, Garnet Trust and Carolina Rise, are both mentioned in the media guide.
- DeAngelo Gibbs, one of two seventh-year players for the Gamecocks (along with EDGE Jordan Strachan), will be 26 years old during this season.
- Williams-Brice Stadium ranked 16th in average game attendance in 2022, including a hurricane-moved Thursday contest against South Carolina State that brought the number down a bit.
- The spring 2023 semester produced the highest-ever team GPA in Gamecock history.
- After the obvious states of South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida, the Gamecocks have more players from Maryland (4) than any other state. With two more from Washington DC and three more from Virginia, Shane Beamer’s emphasis on the DMV is paying off.
- South Carolina football is ranked 23rd in the AP and Coaches preseason polls.