Jake Bentley has been excited about serving as a counselor at the Manning Passing Academy since he learned in January that he would.
That invitation came in a call from Archie Manning, the camp’s founder and executive director – not to mention the former Ole Miss and New Orleans Saints quarterback and father to NFL stars Peyton and Eli Manning.
“I was like, ‘Wow, Archie Manning is calling me,’ ” said Bentley, South Carolina’s 6-foot-4 sophomore starting quarterback. “Right when he invited me, I said, ‘I’m coming. Whatever I have to do to clear something out of my schedule, I don’t care what it is, I am coming down here.