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He was a top recruit in South Carolina’s best class. Football didn’t go as planned

Editor’s note: This is part of a series looking back at South Carolina’s 2007 recruiting class. National Signing Day is Wednesday, Feb. 6.

Jimmy Noonan remembers former South Carolina football player Quintin Richardson as a physical specimen, one so good longtime Columbia area coach Bill Kimrey had to stop a scrimmage to have a word about him.

Noonan was coaching Spring Valley High School. Kimrey coached Dutch Fork. The teams were scrimmaging, and at a point the staff agreed to pull their starters to send out the junior varsity players.