South Carolina QB Robby Ashford Says Real Competition Was Promised By Gamecocks

Joseph Griffin, Joseph Griffin | Aug 5, 2024

Auburn Tigers quarterback Robby Ashford (9) against UMass during their game at Jordan-Hare Stadium on the Auburn University campus in Auburn, Ala., on Saturday September 2, 2023. / Mickey Welsh / Advertiser / USA TODAY NETWORK

The South Carolina Gamecocks entered the 2024 offseason with a known hole, having lost two-year starting QB Spencer Rattler to the NFL Draft. Filling the vacancy left by Rattler was presumed to be a foregone conclusion with LaNorris Sellers being the future of the offense. However, the addition of Auburn transfer QB Robby Ashford made things just a bit more interesting.

Ashford has plenty of SEC Experience and he's a physically impressive football player. At 6'3, 218 pounds, Ashford immediately became the best rushing threat at the position that the Gamecocks have, and according to Ashford, he was a much needed addition.

“I talked to them really early in the portal. They were in my top (schools). They told me, ‘We need a guy to come here that has experience. And you not only have experience, but SEC experience. Just coming in here as an older guy, it’s just an opportunity to compete.”

Most among the Gamecock faithful still seem to believe that Sellers will inevitably be the starter to open the season, but having a veteran prescence behind him is ideal. though there's still going to be competition according to the Gamecocks staff.

“The only true opportunity I’ve really gotten from a coach that’s told me it’s going to be a competition and has been is with Bryan Harsin my first year at Auburn. I respect him a lot for that. When I listened to Coach Beamer, he had a lot of the same things that, when Harsin told me it was a competition, that he meant it. I heard those things from Coach Beamer, and I was like, ‘Okay, I believe that. Maybe it’s just not smoke being blown in my ears like a lot of coaches like to do.'”

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