A Bluff Road tradition almost as old as Williams-Brice Stadium itself ended Monday with the opening of South Carolina’s new $50 million football operations building.
Gamecocks football players will no longer have to cross the road every time they go to practice, which has necessitated a police officer stopping traffic on Bluff Road as much as twice a day during football season going back to the days the team was practicing at the Proving Grounds.
“I think it’s going to be really good for us not to have to make the walk across the street, stop traffic, people honking their horns at us trying to get to work,” quarterback Jake Bentley said.