How The Gamecocks Are Approaching The Month Of November
In the blink of an eye, South Carolina's football team is ten weeks into the 2023 regular season and has just four games remaining on the schedule. In that same vein, at any point in the next four weeks, the Gamecocks could blink and find that the last door of opportunity for them to go to a bowl game for the third straight year has closed.
It's unfamiliar territory for Shane Beamer as far his tenure at South Carolina is concerned, but not for some of the players on his team, including super senior Dakereon Joyner, who's seen the highs and the lows throughout his college football career and used that experience to impart wisdom on the rest of the team on Tuesday.
"I told the guys this morning, I'm like, 'Man, despite our record, find some joy, you know what I'm saying? Because we got four games left together,' Joyner recalled. I told this team, I'm like, 'Man, listen, we got four guarantee games left. We got three more Tuesday practices after today. So, time is coming to an end. Find some joy, man. Enjoy every single moment.'"
One of the other leaders on the team, redshirt junior linebacker Debo Williams, was asked during his presser how much fuel is added to the team's fire in regards to trying to send out the seniors and guys that could be leaving after this season on a high note. He didn't mince words with his answer.
"Yeah, definitely. You never want to lose the game anyway, you know. So it's just we want to go out with a bang for our seniors or anybody that's leaving, and you never want to lose the game either. So definitely, we want to go out with a bang."
Fellow linebacker Stone Blanton was asked about the "one-game-at-a-time" mentality the team is trying to channel when staring down the road ahead, and when giving his response, he mentioned a phrase that was uttered by Shane Beamer when the team went through some struggles this past November.
"These next four [games are] what people [will] remember. We're going to remember how we respond to the adversity that we're facing and can bounce back. People remember November, so we're going to finish strong."
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