Each of the past two seasons, the South Carolina football team has come into the season touting the depth it had at running back with three or four options.
Each season, the ground game has been found lacking.
Now, with a new running backs coach, that plan is out the window. Two backs are in.
“Trying to play three a game is way too much,” offensive coordinator Bryan McClendon said. “It’s kind of hard for a guy to get into a rhythm, hard for a guy to get into the flow of running the ball and kind of reading a defense and feeling how people are tackling him.