Like a person who just pulled out of the parking lot with a brand new sports car, Kurt Roper is having a hard time not just standing on the accelerator and seeing exactly what the new toy has got.
“Probably right now over two days we are probably asking him to do too much,” the Gamecocks offensive coordinator said of sophomore quarterback Jake Bentley. “You are dealing with a guy I have a lot of trust in so you are like, ‘More, more, more.’ You just have to be careful.”
Last season, Bentley was college football’s version of a clunker – a true freshman thrust into a starting role midseason.