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Why two new Gamecocks are ‘bright guys,’ ‘impressive’ to the veterans

What stood out most to South Carolina quarterback Jake Bentley was the fact Nick Harvey and J.T. Ibe haven’t really had much time with their coaches.

Both are graduate transfers, from Texas A&M and Rice respectively. Both came in during the summer, when players get only a handful of meetings around limited time with coaches (most is spent on workouts). Yet in player-run practices, they’re doing their thing.

“They’re really impressive,” Bentley said at SEC Media Days in Atlanta. “They’re really guys you can tell have played a lot of football. You can tell they’re experienced guys who don’t make a lot of mistakes, and just intelligent guys.