When South Carolina’s 2018 football season ended, Jake Bentley was the starting quarterback, Michael Scarnecchia was the backup, Dakereon Joyner was third on the depth chart and Jay Urich was in the fourth spot.
When the Gamecocks begin spring practice on Feb. 27, Scarnecchia will be gone to graduation, and the old depth chart won’t mean anything, head coach Will Muschamp said.
“It will be an open competition,” Muschamp said.
Clearly, Bentley, a senior who has started 31 of the last 32 games for South Carolina, is the presumptive starter. The intrigue starts after that.
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Along with Joyner, last year’s four-star signee, and Urich, the Gamecocks now have Ryan Hilinski, an early enrollee freshman who was considered the second-best pro-style high school quarterback in the country a year ago.