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Jumbo Package: South Carolina injury report, return of Shula, coaches speak on Vandy loss
Happy Thursday, everyone. The injury report was published ahead of South Carolina, and looks like this:
Yhonzae Pierre, LB — Out
Kendrick Law, WR — Questionable
Kobe Prentice, WR — Questionable
Not sure what happened with Pierre, but he posted a picture of himself in a hospital room yesterday calling it a “minor setback.”
Saturday will mark Mike Shula’s return to The Capstone.
Through USC’s media relations staff, Shula declined an interview request ahead of Saturday’s game. Speaking Wednesday on an SEC teleconference, Gamecock head coach Shane Beamer praised Shula’s contributions to his staff.
“Low ego, humble, hardworking,” Beamer said. “Everyone in the building thinks the world of him. He’s been awesome. Has helped us so much on and off the field.”
Shula largely works with the South Carolina quarterbacks. He’s most familiar with that position, having played it himself at Alabama, starting from 1984-1986.
Mike’s QB is concerning for Maurice Linguist, and he should be after what the last mobile QB did to the defense.
I think anytime you see a dynamic quarterback who can run and throw, it’s always on our minds because you have the play and then the extended play, which dual-threat quarterbacks can create,” Linguist said. “Plays that extend the 2.5 seconds of a normal play and the 2.5-3 seconds of the extended play. How we handle the contain of the dropback situations of the quarterback, then if and when he does get out, how we’re handling the disciple coverage on the backend. Plastering or man if we’re in zone, getting our eyes in the right place and making sure they don’t create explosives off extended plays.”
Vanderbilt and the elimination of NLI were the hot topics on “Hey, Coach!”
You know, a lot of times, the information comes out and then our compliance office comes in and meets with us. It doesn’t effect anything, literally, today or tomorrow,” DeBoer said on the “Hey Coach” show Wednesday. “But I think a lot of it will still be still as we’ve done in the past. There will be other ways to bind prospects who sign with Alabama and vice versa. So I don’t see it being something, at least with the tweaks they are going to make — there’s an SEC agreement, there’s other things that we have that guys can sign that will be binding.”
“Well, besides the execution? That’s what it always comes down to, right? Is execution,” he said. “That goes not just on the players, but it’s everyone. All the execution.
“I felt like we had a good plan. We had a plan within the plan when they attack you a different way when — that’s the case, offense, defense. You have Plan A. You have the tweaks, which would be Plan B. To me, that’s all part of the game plan. Something you might have called more or less than what you originally thought going in.
“I thought our staff did a nice job. There’s always things you look back on, like, oh, we could have done this a little bit more earlier. And the other thing is, I think you also got to make sure you don’t just overreact. Sometimes you need to see that look again against the defensive call or the offensive call that we’re running, and the guys get another rep at it. Because it is something new or different that we hadn’t seen on film. Or different guys working together.
“There’s a reason, a lot of times, for execution not being at the level. But that’s full ownership on all of us. When I say that, it’s not about the players. It’s about all of us, including myself.”
The P4P deals will be the binding force going forward, not the NLI. They need to come with negotiable buyouts just like coaching contracts. As far as DeBoer’s comments on execution, this aligns with what I’ve said about coaching for some time. Coaching happens 12 months a year, and determines whether the players can do the job you want them to do on Saturdays. Regardless of the film breakdowns you may have seen criticizing scheme, the fact is that on many of those third down conversions, a tackle or play on the ball was there to be made and wasn’t. In many cases it appeared to be a matter of giving up leverage or taking poor angles.
As Kalen said, that doesn’t mean that the players aren’t good enough or just decided that winning wasn’t worth the effort. It means they have work to do with their coaches to get better in those areas. Whether the coaches are able to get through to them will tell us plenty about this staff.
Last, Coach Kap was asked about the critical sack/fumble.
“The play before, we had a good pocket, a good catch, and we were getting ready to go (up) tempo,” Kapilovic said Wednesday. “One of their kids came by and kind of gave an elbow to our quarterback, so one of our O-linemen runs over there, then another runs over there, and we’re trying to go tempo. So then we’re trying to get lined up to go fast, and (Pritchett) takes a bad set and gets beat.”
It was the Commodores’ biggest defensive play of the game, as it recaptured momentum as the Crimson Tide lost a chance to take its first lead. Vanderbilt drove for a what proved to be the game-winning touchdown off the turnover, to open a 40-28 lead.
“We’ve got to understand the situation,” Kapilovic added. “Yes we want to protect our quarterback. He’s a big boy. Nothing crazy happened. Let’s get lined up and play the next play.”
So we were too engaged in extracurricular nonsense to make the next play. Sounds like another coaching point that is being delivered. Hopefully it is received.
That’s about it for now. Have a great day.
Roll Tide.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – Former South Carolina Lt. Gov. André Bauer has been nominated for a position in foreign diplomacy.
The White House on Tuesday listed Bauer as a nominee to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Belize, a Central American country bordering Guatemala.
It’s unclear when a confirmation hearing will take place. WIS has reached out to the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee for more information.
Bauer was South Carolina’s lieutenant governor from 2003-2011, serving under then-Gov. Mark Sanford. Before that, he served terms in the South Carolina House of Representatives and the South Carolina Senate.
More recently, Bauer entered the race for U.S. Senate in July 2025, looking to unseat Sen. Lindsey Graham in the Republican primary. He ended his campaign the following month.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Six Republican candidates vying to become South Carolina’s next governor met in downtown Charleston for a wide-ranging debate that put abortion, infrastructure and the future of data centers at the center of the race.
The forum was held at the Sottile Theatre, where Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, state Sen. Josh Kimbrell, U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman, Lowcountry businessman Rom Reddy and Attorney General Alan Wilson took the stage.
Questions included whether they would support a state hate crime law, how they would address concerns about growth and infrastructure, how to navigate collaboration, abortion and the future of data centers in the state.
One issue that drew near-unanimous opposition was state Senate Bill 1095, a proposed total abortion ban that passed out of committee earlier in the day. All of the candidates opposed the bill, but they differed on what they would do if it reached the governor’s desk.
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Norman said he would sign it.
“You know, this is an emotional issue, but I will tell you if this bill came to my desk as governor. If it passed the House and the Senate, I would sign it,” Norman said.
All of the other candidates on stage said they would veto the bill if it came across their desk as governor, with Reddy arguing the question should be decided by voters.
“The Supreme Court did not say the loudest voice in the ruling class prevails. It said it’s up to the people in the state, so let’s put it to a referendum,” Reddy said.
On infrastructure, candidates discussed reforming the South Carolina Department of Transportation and allowing private-sector involvement to help pay for improvements.
Wilson outlined ideas that included leasing interstate easements and expanding private express lanes.
“We privatized that grass between the interstates. We turn it into private express lanes that can be told we leased the easements on the sides of interstates to telecommunication companies and energy companies, and charge them for natural gas line and fiber optic fiber optic cables,” Wilson said.
Evette also pointed to public-private partnerships and the possibility of fast-pass lanes.
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“We want to make sure that we’re innovative public private partnerships coming in and creating fast pass lanes to allow people that are in a hurry to be able to utilize that,” Evette said.
The final question focused on data centers, with candidates agreeing corporations should “pay their way.”
“They should pay for their water. They should pay for their infrastructure, any roads around it, and we should look at what Governor Ron DeSantis has done in Florida with the large data centers that are coming to Florida. That should be the model in South Carolina and everywhere,” Mace said.
Kimbrell said the state should set limits to protect natural resources and guard against higher power costs for residents.
“Put parameters around data centers to ensure that the water consumption does not impact places like the ACE Basin,” Kimbrell said. “Ensuring that the Public Service Commission makes absolutely sure nobody’s power rate goes up and we try to get behind the meter energy grids in place so they can be self-sufficient.”
Two more debates are planned ahead of the primaries on June 9.
A bill that could make it a felony for doctors to perform an abortion is moving to the full South Carolina Senate with just a few weeks left in the legislative session.
The South Carolina Senate medical affairs committee continued a debate of Senate Bill 1095 on April 21 in Columbia. The bill, sponsored by State Sen. Richard Cash, R-Anderson, builds on a restrictive abortion bill that failed to progress in the fall.
The committee passed the measure in an 8-4 vote, moving it to the full Senate for consideration. Lawmakers have until May 14, the last day of the 2026 legislative session, to pass the bill for it to become law.
Senate Bill 1095, also called the “Unborn Child Protection Act,” bans performing an abortion or supplying abortion drugs. It makes it illegal for a woman to get an abortion, with the only exception being to save a pregnant woman’s life.
It also makes mifepristone and misoprostol Schedule IV controlled substances. Alprazolam (Xanax) and zolpidem (Ambien) are two other examples of Schedule IV substances.
Pro-Life Greenville, an anti-abortion organization based in Greenville, responded to the bill’s progress with “full endorsement” of the legislation.
“Unborn children, like all human beings, deserve to have their lives protected under law here in the Palmetto State,” Pro-Life Greenville stated. “Today’s vote by the SC Senate Medical Affairs Committee brings that urgent need one step closer to reality.”
Under the bill, a woman who has an abortion could face misdemeanor charges. The maximum sentence would be two years in jail with a $1,000 fine.
Those found guilty of performing an abortion or providing a pregnant woman with abortion-inducing drugs could face felony charges, a maximum sentence of 20 years in jail, and a possible $100,000 fine.
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic (PPSAT), a firm opponent of the bill, decried the Senate committee passage. PPSAT Director of Public Affairs Vicki Ringer said in a statement that the bill will cost people their lives, and it will make it more difficult for women to get reproductive and pregnancy healthcare.
“Abortion bans have and will continue to cost people their lives,” Ringer stated. “As this ban inches closer to the governor’s desk, it is becoming increasingly clear just how many of our lives anti-abortion lawmakers are willing to endanger in service to their agenda.”
Bella Carpentier covers the South Carolina legislature, state, and Greenville County politics. Contact her at bcarpentier@gannett.com
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