Friday was a big day for Bryan McClendon. South Carolina’s wide receivers coach and interim offensive coordinator got the big break that some coaches wait their entire career for and never receive when he was promoted to full-time offensive coordinator for the Gamecocks.
It was a bigger day for the man who made the hire, South Carolina head coach Will Muschamp, and McClendon knows that.
“This is a big hire for him,” McClendon said Friday after Muschamp announced the hire during a morning news conference. “Let’s say what it is.”
Muschamp has led the Gamecocks to three-win improvements in each of his two seasons as coach, and South Carolina finished the 2017 season 9-4 after beating Michigan 26-19 in the Outback Bowl.