Football is a development sport. You have heard it several times. You’ve heard it here. You have heard it from most coaches.
It is difficult to remember at times, as we live in a world where instant gratification is the norm and given the overemphasis on the instant production of highly regarded football talents. But the facts are that it is the truth as it has always been.
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If things are going well, football players get better over time. Some develop faster than others, you see, but you always see improvements.
With everyone except one member of one of the top 20 recruiting classes (2020) still intact in South Carolina, plus a few additions in 2021, some members rejoin after giving up and a handful of older players who fought against injuries during his career, one of the big keys to the new Gamecocks trainer Shane Beamer and your team in this off-season will be the improvement and individual development.
This has already started with the off-season program under the strength coach Luke Day. The next phase begins on Saturday, when Carolina opens her first spring training of the Beamer era.
With that, here is a player in each position who needs to step forward for Gamecocks during the spring and summer and, finally, the pre-season. The emergence of these players will be extremely beneficial to the final result of the 2021 season under this new team.