South Carolina’s coaches never seriously considered replacing Parker White as the freshman place-kicker struggled down the stretch despite having Alexander Woznick, another freshman who opened the season as the starter, on the bench.
“Not really,” Gamecocks special teams coordinator Coleman Hutzler said. “Once we made the move, we were going to stick with Parker through the way.”
Woznick, a five-star kicking prospect at the Chris Sailer Kicking academy, took the first three field goal attempts of the season, missing two of them. He was then replaced by White, a walk-on from Mount Pleasant, who finished the season 14-of-25.