Editor’s note: This part of a series looking back at South Carolina’s 2007 recruiting class. National Signing Day is Wednesday, Feb. 6.
Joe Hills is one of the leading wide receivers in the history of Arena Football League. Antonio Allen still lives in New York City, where a five-year NFL career ended in 2017, and is “trying to make my next dream come true.” Stephen Garcia is, of all things, coaching quarterbacks.
That’s now. Then, in 2007, before South Carolina’s football team had won an SEC East title or 11 games for three seasons in a row or much of anything really, they were part of the same club, a surprising amalgamation of high school talent that put the Gamecocks’ 2007 signing class into a realm it had never gone before and has not been back to since.