Seven days before South Carolina’s first football game of the 2018 season, the playing surface at Williams-Brice Stadium was only half covered with grass, but Gamecocks officials are confident their home field will be ready to go Saturday when Coastal Carolina visits.
Damage done by Tuesday’s Beyonce/Jay-Z concert at the stadium required the entire playing surface to be taken up and replaced, but the Gamecocks were expecting and had planned for that eventuality, and got to work right away on the project.
“We would not have done this if we believed there was a safety issue,” said Clark Cox, the school’s assistant athletics director for turf and landscaping.