Former South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore was back in the news last week. The NCAA ruled that Lattimore could not become a full-time employee of the school’s athletic department because of his involvement with summer camps and the work of his private foundation.
Whether that is a good, or fair, ruling is a question we’ll tackle later. I just knew I had to call him. You see, I have something of a history with Marcus Lattimore.
In the spring of 2010, then-South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier told me during a visit that he thought he had something special with Lattimore, an incoming freshman from Duncan, S.