Spencer Rattler details South Carolina summer work
With the combination of traditional summer weight room work, player-run practices, and recent NCAA changes that allow teams to spend more time with their coaches on the field during the summer, the South Carolina football team spends more time together than ever before during the months leading up to preseason practice.
Before South Carolina quarterback Spencer Rattler represents the Gamecocks at SEC Media Days this week, he sat down with GamecockCentral last week for an exclusive Garnet Trust interview and gave the latest on the team’s progress this summer.
“Throughout the week, we have our team workouts and group workouts in the morning,” Rattler said last Thursday. “We recently changed our schedule to about three times a week, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. It’s great to get on the field and do more football stuff, which is always refreshing after spending time in the weight room. We get to throw the ball around and compete with the defense. These last three days have been fun, making a lot of plays on both ends. We’re just grinding.”
The Gamecocks’ second-year QB is constantly asked in media settings about Dowell Loggains’ new offense with those in the program giving snippets here and there about what to expect, but no one providing much detail on the Xs and Os of the scheme.
“We’ve just been putting all the pieces together, complementing what we do well,” Rattler said. “We’ve added some new stuff from last year, being a complete new system with new verbiage and a fresh mindset, I would say. And it’s gone in the right direction. We all love it, playing to our strengths. As we get to the end of the season, it’s been fun to work with all the guys and improve every day.”
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One aspect of his approach that Loggains has been open about is how he wants to make the scheme “quarterback friendly.”
The long-time NFL offensive coordinator and former Arkansas assistant has tried to empower Rattler to make the offense his own during Loggains’ seven months on campus.
“Something I love about Dowell is he’s very open,” Rattler said. “He loves to hear input from his quarterbacks, and we’ve had great talks. Obviously, he wants to do stuff that I’m comfortable with. I feel like I can do anything on the football field, but there are certain things that, not just myself, but the other guys do well too. So, he lets me be the point guard, distribute, play fast, and with a clear mind. We don’t overcomplicate things, but rather focus on what we do well. Whether it’s a long play call or a one-word play call, as long as it works, we’ll keep running it until it doesn’t.”
