Connor Shaw

We were behind 24-3, I think, going into the fourth quarter or something like that.

And Connor Shaw was sick that morning.

Couldn't play.

So Dylan Thompson's out there, and he struggled.

anybody.

Do you know any other player that's as beloved as Garcia? I mean, the only one that I could think that would compete would be Connor Shaw.

Connor, yeah.

Connor.

I think the backup, I remember Wes, and he didn't have as long of a stretch of struggle.

I remember people wanting to bench Connor Shaw.

I mean, that happened.

It happened actually a good bit.

Well, you probably don't know these guys, but he, they both played football at South Carolina.

Connor Shaw and Patrick DiMarco.

Connor Shaw was the quarterback for years, and he crazily, he's younger than me, he's closer to your age, had a heart attack and he t- uh, a year ago tomorrow, and was basically brought back to life.

With two young kids.

Jesus.

You guys remember Thad Lewis? I don't.

Austin Davis, Connor Shaw, Cody Kessler of USC fame.

Uh, I just wanna see if they... 'Cause I, in today's age, whenever things get tough, the star players seem to kinda put their hand up, "Hey, I wanna get traded." Joe Thomas never did that.

He just showed up to work-

Last year, the narrative was about Venable's record against freshman quarterbacks, and it was really good.

I can't remember exactly what it was, but the only guys that have beaten him in that second meeting once he's gotten a taste for what you bring to the table are Eric Crouch from Nebraska, Aso Pogge of Oklahoma State, Vince Young of Texas, Graham Harrell of Texas Tech, Brandon Whedon of Oklahoma State, Robert Griffin III of Baylor, Connor Shaw of South Carolina, Eric Dungy of Syracuse, Jalen Hurts of Alabama.

and jason bean of kansas so some really good quarterbacks on that list underwood needs to be clean he i think they're going to run him at least 10 15 times whatever it takes in this game but my question to you guys is how do you attack this defense you keep it simple try to get some layup type of throws for him keep it on the ground not turn it over punt you know punt the ball away at the very least Or do you open it up and say, hey, we're going to have to make some plays here? You know, they tried the conservative approach last year.

It felt like they were just playing to make the game competitive and not win the game.

Lincoln Riley was the, actually the OC at ECU at the time, and they kinda ambushed the Gamecocks, got up 17-0.

That was the year Connor Shaw actually got the start over Garcia in the first game.

There was an early turnover.

Garcia came off the bench, played really well, led the Gamecocks back to the win.