COLUMBIA, S.C. – The signs of a new direction for South Carolina football came unexpectedly to Greenville (S.C.) High School head coach Greg Porter this spring.
The first arrived from one of his former players, Trey Adkins, a walk-on who earned a scholarship at South Carolina. Porter recalled Adkins offering a telling distinction in Shane Beamer’s staff from the previous one: “The staff cares. They speak to the players, have conversations with them on a daily basis. It’s more than just football.”
Porter saw it himself this spring, when Beamer called to check in on him multiple times.