On the first day of South Carolina’s spring practices, Gamecocks defensive coordinator Travaris Robinson showed his players a film. It wasn’t a highlight video.
Instead, it was a collection of all the times South Carolina tipped a pass but failed to turn it into an interception, forced a fumble and then didn’t recover it or let an opponent hold the football in a precarious position without forcing it loose.
“I said, ‘These are the opportunities we missed, and this can’t happen,’ ” Robinson said. “For us to be the football team that we want to be and that we are capable of being, we have to make those plays.