GAMECOCKS FIND 'QBS' COACH
Posted 11:33 p.m., December 2, 2008
COLA -- Here's the story I just shipped over for final edition. Sorry to those in the outlying areas what won't see this in the paper ... but, well, you're seeing it now.
You never know what you'll learn while you're at Wal-Mart.
-- Th
By TRAVIS HANEY
The Post and Courier
COLUMBIA - One down, one to go.
South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier certainly worked quickly this week to fill one of the two vacant positions on his offensive staff.
Southeastern Conference veteran Woody McCorvey will join the Gamecocks as the team's new wide receivers coach, sources confirmed Tuesday night.
It's his second run at this particular job. He also held the position on Brad Scott's 1998 USC staff.
McCorvey's addition means, as expected, Spurrier will move his son, Steve Jr., to quarterbacks coach.
That position became open when David Reaves left Sunday to join Lane Kiffin's new staff at Tennessee.
Spurrier is still on the hunt for a new offensive line coach to replace John Hunt, fired Sunday morning.
In addition to the one year at USC, McCorvey has coached in the SEC since 1990.
He was with Alabama as a receivers coach from 1990-97, serving as the Tide's offensive coordinator in 1996.
He was Tennessee's running backs coach from 1999-2003. He was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Mississippi State from 2004 until Sylvester Croom resigned this past weekend.
McCorvey becomes the third member formerly of Croom's staff - including cornerbacks coach Shane Beamer and defensive coordinator Ellis Johnson - to join Spurrier's staff.
Prior to that 18-year run in the conference, in his first Division I job, McCorvey, a native of Alabama, was Clemson's tight ends and receivers coach from 1983-89.
Upon learning of Reaves' intent to leave, sources said Tuesday that Spurrier initially considered hiring former Florida quarterback and current UNLV quarterbacks coach Noah Brindise to directly replace Reaves.
Brindise, who played at UF from 1995-97, was Spurrier's quarterbacks coach in their two-year run with the Washington Redskins.
Prior to that, he was a Gators graduate assistant from 1999-2001.
Brindise, 33, and Spurrier speak on a semi-regular basis. Brindise's little brother, Zac, is a Gamecocks walk-on quarterback.
But, in more recent days, Spurrier changed his mind and decided shuffling the staff would make more sense.
One reason is that he wanted the staff to have more of a minority presence. Running backs Robert Gillespie and safeties coach Ron Cooper were previously the only black members on board.
Spurrier's priority now is finding a coach for the O-line. Graduate assistant Cedric Williams is currently serving as the interim position coach.
The popular names in the early part of the search process are a pair of South Carolina natives -- Vanderbilt's Robbie Caldwell and TCU's Eddie Williamson.
Caldwell, who coached a season at Hanahan, is from Pageland. Williamson, who was USC's offensive line coach in 1989 and 1990, is a Pendleton native.
Reach Travis Haney at thaney@postandcourier.com and check out the new South Carolina blog at www.charleston.net/blogs/gamecocks.>
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