South Carolina Gamecocks QB Spencer Rattler and Notre Dame QB Malik Zaire worked out together. Rattler plays the Fighting Irish on Friday.
“It was really good to see him go through the process of not always being at his best,” Zaire said. The two clicked and Giovando agreed to train Zaire ahead of his pro day in preparation for the 2018 NFL Draft. “(Zaire) always worked hard around us,” Rattler told The State. That talented teenager he’d worked out with in Arizona was flashing the talent he saw years ago. “I think he’s grown a lot. “It’s not like you’re learning the secrets of quarterbacking, necessarily, but when you go with Gio, it’s gonna be great work. 8 Clemson to close the year. Roughly a decade ago, Giovando received a call from a local coach about an uber-talented sixth-grade quarterback who was torching youth defenses in and around Phoenix. That forced Zaire’s eventual transfer to Florida, where he started two games in 2017 before suffering a season-ending injury in a loss to South Carolina. The ease with which Rattler could loft balls down the field. He’s on a hot streak.” “We’re like, ‘OK, is there like a formation?
“Nate going down sucked,” South Carolina quarterback Spencer Rattler said after the 45-38 loss to Notre Dame in the Gator Bowl on Friday night. “It hurt a lot.
Definitely going to pray on it, talk to my family, talk to a lot of people.” Just let it slipped out of our fingers there in the last moments of the game. Winning eight games overall, making it to a great game like this, coming up just short – it was a great year. It stings, especially for the seniors, the old guys, it hurts.” The Gamecocks (8-5) scored on three of their first four possessions and the only one that didn't was because of a self-inflicted wound, coming on a lost fumble. Shout out to our O-line, our seniors, [Eric Douglas](//247sports.com/Player/Eric-Douglas-76304), [Jovaughn Gwyn](//247sports.com/Player/Jovaughn-Gwyn-46038893), [Jaylen Nichols](//247sports.com/Player/Jaylen-Nichols-46047376), all of them guys; much respect to them. [Nate Adkins](//247sports.com/Player/Nate-Adkins-46133087) went down, it changed the entire game for South Carolina. I threw the ball in the dirt to AB, and that’s not like me, and that’s my bad. “It’s a blessing. [Nate Adkins](//247sports.com/Player/Nate-Adkins-46133087) played his butt off. [Xavier Legette](//247sports.com/Player/Xavier-Legette-46059402). – South Carolina got out to a flying start offensively but it certainly was stuck in mud as the game went on.