Progress comes at a price. And it’s a hefty one in major college football.
South Carolina head coach Will Muschamp has repeatedly referred to the school’s nearly completed $50 million football operations building as an “investment,” the kind of investment he and his bosses believe is mandatory to be competitive in the Southeastern Conference, but brick and mortar are only part of what the Gamecocks are pouring into their football program.
“When you invest in your program, you get a return,” Muschamp said.
Two years into his rebuilding of that program, the Gamecocks are doing just that.