Sapakoff: Gamecocks' help recipe is Mario Anderson, better blocking

COLUMBIA — Mario Anderson played the scenario out in his dreams from his earliest days at Goose Creek's Stratford High School to last season while ...

September 14, 2023
7:16 AM

COLUMBIA — Mario Anderson played the scenario out in his dreams from his earliest days at Goose Creek's Stratford High School to last season while rushing for a school-record 1,560 yards at Newberry College. Playing football before a sellout crowd on a Saturday night in a huge SEC stadium. Funny how things work out. Anderson, a redshirt senior transfer student, didn't hear a thing during his first major-college carry Saturday night. 'It felt great,' he said Tuesday about coming out of the locker room to a roar from most fans in the crowd of 78,281 present for South Carolina's 47-21 victory over Furman.

Gene Sakoff