South Carolina fans shouldn’t expect anything fancy from the Gamecocks defense when the team opens the season Sept. 2 against N.C. State. South Carolina will play as many as nine first-year defensive players against the Wolfpack and that kind of thing makes a coach nervous.
“You never really know how they are going to respond, how they are going to react,” Muschamp said Thursday during the first Columbia Touchdown Club luncheon of the season. “They are going to go through some growing pains.”
The Gamecocks head coach is traditionally the first speaker of the year for the TD Club, and Muschamp as making his second appearance Thursday.