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COLUMBIA (WACH)- South Carolina's Head Ball Coach Steve Spurrier is very optimistic about the stable of new athletes he has going into fall camp.

After Saturday's scrimmage, the ball coach talked up his stable of young players as the team gets ready for the 2012 season.  Spurrier is especially impressed with incoming freshman recievers Shaq Roland, Keiwan Lewis, and tight end Jerell Adams.

Of the quarterbacks Spurrier seemed the most impressed with Andrew Clifford.  Marcus Lattimore seems to be recovering from his injury with Spurrier saying the runningback having, "several good runs."

On the special teams front, transfer Tyler Webb kicked his way into a scholarship.

Head coach Steve Spurrier announced that the Gamecocks would scrimmage on Wednesday night at Williams-Brice Stadium beginning at 7:30 p.m. That scrimmage will be open to the public and will be the final open practice of the preseason camp for the Gamecocks. "We want to turn the lights on and maybe get some fans out," said Coach Spurrier. "We want to try to find out who our best ballplayers are. It will be the last one of the preseason that is open to the public. We’ll start closing up (practices) and game planning (for Vanderbilt) after Wednesday night."