On Friday, South Carolina officials announced various noteworthy things. Among them: Gamecocks legend Marcus Lattimore was joining the football staff as director of player development, head coach Will Muschamp was getting a raise to $4.2 million annually (for starters), the entire existing football coaching staff was receiving raises, and another assistant coach was being hired.
All of that was newsworthy, but none of it was as remarkable as this: “The NFL dream is a pipe dream at best.”
Muschamp said that in helping to explain Lattimore’s new role. Let me repeat that: An SEC football coach and dogged recruiter is, essentially, saying that remarkable high school football players shouldn’t come to college – even in the big, bad SEC – thinking that the next stop is the NFL.