A season ago, South Carolina’s football team was a bit short on scholarship guys in the quarterback room.
Teams generally recruit a passer every year, meaning four scholarship players plus walk-ons populate that meeting room. But Brandon McIlwain, whose focus seemed to turn toward baseball after Jake Bentley established himself as the starter, departed the program in March of 2017.
So USC went through last season with three scholarship quarterbacks: Bentley as starter, Michael Scarnecchia as a steady veteran backup and Jay Urich as a redshirting emergency passer.
This spring, with freshman Dakereon Joyner enrolled early, that room is full again.