COLOMBIA, SC – The South Carolina football team spent Wednesday’s National Signature Day in a large-scale sales pitch on social media.
The targets were the recruits of the future. The February subscription period has become a shell of itself since the creation of the initial subscription period. Most of the country’s prospects now subscribe in December. There were very few surprises nationally on Wednesday and none belonging to the Gamecocks.
South Carolina received four-player signatures – three-star defensive striker TJ Sanders of Marion, three-star linebacker Tavareon Martin-Smith of Fort Wayne, Indiana, three-star linebacker Kolbe Field of Metairie, Louisiana, and the three-star cornerback La’Dareyen Craig from Mobile, Ala. All of these hires were expected. The work on these recruits had already been done during the first two months of work for coach Shane Beamer. Wednesday was about looking ahead and starting to attract the …