If you’ve followed South Carolina football for pretty much anything length of time — unless it was from about 2009-2013, and you then subsequently tuned out — the idea that the Gamecock program is cursed is not a new one to you. There’s been no shortage of unfathomable bad luck, whether in the way the ball bounces at the end of a close game or how the injury bug seems to selectively ravage critical players.
Well, friends, here we are again: Sophomore quarterback Luke Doty, the incumbent starter poised to take a leap in his second year with the team, is out indefinitely after getting his foot trampled in practice.