The Gamecocks are coming into this season with many questions. Is this a team on the rise? When will Luke Doty be back? When he is back, will he look better than last season? Will the Gamecocks succeed or simply tread water until his return? Was last year’s struggles more so because of a lack of talent or a diminishing will to succeed? How quickly will the culture change under first-year head coach Shane Beamer?
Well, it’s hard to know until we see this team step on the field for real, and to be completely honest, we may not even get a real answer until week two when the Gamecocks play their first *real* opponent (the Cocks can’t struggle too much against Eastern Illinois… right?