Jake Bentley has checked one of the two chief goals from his offseason to-do list.
South Carolina’s sophomore quarterback immersed himself in the Gamecocks playbook and has demonstrated a new mastery for his coaches and teammates in practice, but the other big goal for Bentley can only truly be proven on Sept. 2, when the season begins.
Not that he isn’t working on it now.
“When practice isn’t going well, offense is kind of in a slump or not performing our best, I just to keep the energy going and keep us going in the right direction,” he said.