The family atmosphere Frank Martin has created at South Carolina is freely discussed by his players, and spoken of so reverently that one knows it’s not just hokey team-speak. These guys are brothers, united for each other and the Gamecocks.
So it was that when Chris Silva was visiting his flesh-and-blood family for the first time in five years this summer, he was still thinking of the family he had in Columbia.
“Even though I was excited to see my family, spend some time with them, I was thinking every day of the workouts I was missing,” the Gamecocks’ junior center said.