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South Carolina names sophomore Luke Doty starting QB to open season
Posted on 4/26/21 at 4:15 pm
Posted on 4/26/21 at 4:15 pm
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South Carolina football coach Shane Beamer wanted to emerge from spring practice with a starting quarterback so that person could provide leadership and a clear direction for his offensive teammates this summer. The first-year head coach has that player.
While recognizing that there’s a summer of offseason work and a preseason camp to continue to earn that job, Beamer said that sophomore Luke Doty is the starting quarterback for the Gamecocks as the team breaks following spring practice.
“Unless something totally changes between now and when we watch the tape, Luke Doty is our starting quarterback,” Beamer said immediately following the Garnet & Black Spring Game on Sunday.
“Like every other position, that’s going to be competition throughout the summer. By no means are we anointing Luke, but he’s taken every rep with the first team all spring practice and I didn’t see anything today to make me think otherwise. He’s great.”
Doty completed 5-of-7 passes in the game for a total of 54 yards. While he didn’t throw or rush for a touchdown, he led the first-team offense on a pair of touchdown drives, which came at the start of the first and second halves of football.
“We’re competing, don’t get me wrong. Luke has to continue to get better, Luke has to continue to progress over the summer, Luke has to have a great preseason training camp. But coming out of spring practice, he’s our starting quarterback and it’s his job to continue to earn that and continue to compete between now and the Eastern Illinois game.”
South Carolina had three other quarterbacks get work in the “game” portion that was played at Williams-Brice Stadium on Sunday. True freshman Colten Gauthier was 1-for-3 on the afternoon for three yards. Walk-on Connor Jordan missed on his only pass attempt for the day.
The No. 4 dual-threat quarterback and No. 86 recruit overall in the class of 2020, Doty played in seven games last season. He went 43-of-71 passing (60.6%) for 405 yards, with two touchdowns and three interceptions. Doty also rushed 41 times for 91 yards.
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Posted on 4/26/21 at 4:20 pm to paperwasp
4 star dual threat/ pro style qb.
STATS
2020
CMP ATT CMP% YDS AVG TD INT LNG RTG
43 71 60.6 405 5.7 2 3 35 109.3
STATS
2020
CMP ATT CMP% YDS AVG TD INT LNG RTG
43 71 60.6 405 5.7 2 3 35 109.3
This post was edited on 4/26/21 at 4:22 pm
Posted on 4/26/21 at 5:17 pm to paperwasp
Transfer QB Jason Brown actually looked really good yesterday. Him and his teammate that transferred here with him, 6'8 WR EJ Jenkins, have played fb together since middle school. It was like they could read each other's minds. Liked what I saw out of both of them.
Doty has a lot of potential. Just still kinda rough around the edges in some areas. Major improvement from what we saw out of him last year, tho. And anything would be an improvement over Collin Hill.
Doty has a lot of potential. Just still kinda rough around the edges in some areas. Major improvement from what we saw out of him last year, tho. And anything would be an improvement over Collin Hill.
Posted on 4/26/21 at 5:25 pm to paperwasp
He was terrible last year
Posted on 4/26/21 at 6:30 pm to paperwasp
I wasn't a huge fan of his last year but I guess we'll see. Just not opening up the season with Muschamp on the sideline is good enough for me.
This post was edited on 4/26/21 at 6:31 pm
Posted on 4/26/21 at 6:31 pm to paperwasp
As long as they don't have a back up QB we good
Posted on 4/26/21 at 6:58 pm to paperwasp
Doesn't sound good over on the Gamecock board
Posted on 4/26/21 at 11:26 pm to paperwasp
I look forward to watching Kentucky knock his arse around like a rag doll.
Posted on 4/27/21 at 6:04 am to paperwasp
SC has NOBODY behind Doty. He ain't running, unless it's for his life...
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