Mark Berson is part South Carolina men’s soccer coach, part storyteller. Sit in his office for five minutes and he’ll tell you about that time his team once stopped practice to help a bleacher delivery man.
“We pulled the bleachers out of the truck,” he said. “Thankfully for everybody at the university we didn’t put the bleachers together. That would have been a big problem.”
Spend another five minutes and he’ll take you to Feb. 19, 1992. The Carolina Coliseum is in awe at the sight of a 7-foot, 300-pound basketball player from LSU.
“Shaquille O’Neal took a rebound and ran the length of the court like a point guard and jammed it,” Berson said.