On the night before his final day as head football coach at South Carolina – two weeks after the Gamecocks concluded a 1-10 season – Brad Scott asked his teenage sons, Jeff and John, to join him downstairs in the sunroom of the family’s Columbia home.
There, in a gathering fraught with emotions for all three, the elder Scott told his sons they would attend a news conference the next day, where he would be resigning after five seasons and a 23-32-1 record – a “resignation” that athletics director Mike McGee had made clear the coach had little say about.