This meeting was supposed to happen in September, when South Carolina football hosted Georgia.
But Ryan Hilinski, the Gamecocks’ four-star 2019 quarterback commit, had to go to Pullman, Wash., for a ceremony honoring his late brother. Myrtle Beach passer Luke Doty, the team’s 2020 commit, was still there, but the face-to-face for USC’s next two blue-chip passers had to wait.
Until last weekend.
“I was walking down the sideline and he touched my shoulder,” Hilinski said. “I turned around, I saw his face. It was pretty cool meeting him.