re: How much do you think your team has progressed or regressed since last season?

Gamecocks

QB - Improvement, two deep and more experienced.

RB - Improvement, three to four deep and less inclined to rely strictly on one guy.

TE - Improvement, they are Sophs now rather than Freshmen, weight gained, more experience.

OLine - about the same until I see different. Huge, talented, deeper than in our history, but I wanna see execution and I wanna see some viciousness outta these guys.

WR - major improvement. Ellington and Byrd return but we've got some young talent that we were able to redshirt last year that just appears to be extraordinary this year. Spurrier has never had problems recruiting talent at WR - they wanna play for him.

DE - improvement. Clowney is another year older, bigger, wiser. Chaz Sutton is starting on the other end plus we are two deep with talented guys behind the two starters.

DLine - improvement, deeper and more experienced along with returning Kelcey Quarles for what will probably be his final year.

Secondary - jury is out on this one. We have more talent back there, but less experience. These guys do have quite a bit of playing time but we'll just have to see.

LBs - far more talented, but very young and inexperienced. Jury is out on these guys but I do not see how we can actually improve over last year's guys with such a young bunch, regardless of how talented these guys are. I hope I am wrong.

Kickers - Nick St Germain, remember that name.

Return guy - we lost Ace Sanders. You cannot improve on Ace Sanders. I just hope we find someone who gets the job done in normal ways.