Interim coach Mike Bobo outlines changes to staff, his priority for final 3 games
By Keith Farner
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South Carolina offensive coordinator turned interim coach Mike Bobo has taken over a program that has fallen short of expectations this season. The Gamecocks are 2-5 and the three-game losing streak led to the firing of coach Will Muschamp.
Since Bobo was moved into the interim coach role, that opened up a position on the coaching staff, and Bobo said at a Monday press conference that former star QB Connor Shaw would move on to the staff in a full-time position to coach the quarterbacks. Bobo said he would continue to call plays, and that morale in the program is his biggest priority.
“I think my biggest job is morale, and getting these guys ready to play and to play for each other and play for the University of South Carolina,” Bobo said. “We’ve got an unbelievable staff on both sides of that ball that are good football coaches. … There are good football coaches that lose games on Saturdays. Sometimes things happen that are out of your control and I believe in that staff that Coach Muschamp has put together. I believe in that offensive staff that we have in that offensive room.”
Bobo added that just because the Gamecocks lost games, that doesn’t mean they are bad coaches and he believes there are good coaches on the staff. Bobo said he would be looking at all aspects of the team and look at everything that can help in beating Missouri this week.
Bobo said receivers coach Joe Cox is helping to lead the offensive staff meetings, and was in a meeting during Bobo’s press conference.
Bobo said the normal off day of Monday would give players and staff a day to process the changes.
“I know they’re all hurting, they chose to play for Coach Muschamp, but they also chose to come to the University of South Carolina just like I did,” Bobo said. “That’s the name that we represent now and that’s what we plan on doing on Saturday.”
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
