After watching Garcia toss four interceptions — three in the first half alone — and being replaced by Connor Shaw during what would become a 21-3 win over Vanderbilt, the Ol’ Ball Coach was, obviously, asked about the future state of South Carolina’s QB position. According to the Charleston Post & Courier, Spurrier indicated he will probably stick with Garcia, although “damning with faint praise” comes to mind as the OBC discusses what’s seemingly his only option at the position at this point in time.
“I’m not going to say anything bad about Stephen,” Spurrier said. “Stephen is actually trying the best he can. He is trying the best he can, and that’s all as a coach you can ever ask a person to do.”
Garcia had been Spurrier’s starter since the middle of the 2008 season, but an April suspension — the fifth during his time in Columbia — followed by an early August reinstatement led to the senior starting the 2011 season on the bench behind Shaw. That lasted all of one game as Garcia replaced Shaw in the opener and started the next three games as well.
This weekend against Auburn, it will likely be four in a row for Garcia, if for for no other reason than Spurrier simply has no other alternatives available at the position.
“If some of those other guys looked great in practice, yeah I’d put them in there,” Spurrier said. “But they haven’t really impressed us all that much in practice. As a coach, you just put whoever out there you think has got the best chance to help you win the game. We’ll see how it goes.”
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