South Carolina to add walk-on quarterback Darius Douglas
April 20, 2017
South Carolina will add another 2017 prospect when quarterback Darius Douglas joins as a preferred walk-on this summer.
Douglas, a senior at Berkeley High School (Moncks Corner, S.C.), will have a signing ceremony on Thursday at 3 p.m. He recently visited South Carolina for the Garnet & Black spring game.
“(Contact) started over the summer. They host a 7-on-7 every summer and our team went and we won the whole thing. After that, coach (Will) Muschamp and coach (Kurt) Roper liked how I played and they told me they were going to recruit me pretty hard and all that,” Douglas said.
South Carolina already had its 2017 quarterback in place with 3-star recruit Jay Urich committed, but Douglas remained in touch with Roper.
“Coach Roper and I, we became pretty close,” Douglas said. “He told me that if I ever needed any help, he would contact coaches, to help me get recruited, because I was a really good player and he didn’t want me to be one of those guys that wasn’t going anywhere. I just liked that about Coach Roper the whole time, because we became really close.”
Douglas, a 6-foot-1, 185-pound prospect, played in the Shrine Bowl in December, but his recruitment never really took off like he had hoped. South Carolina State, Presbyterian College and North Carolina A&T expressed interest but didn’t offer.
Coastal Carolina also was in the mix with South Carolina.
“My grandma, mom and (Berkeley coach Randy Robinson), they helped me a whole lot,” Douglas said. “We sat down and had a talk. We discussed it and they told me to do whatever my heart told me to do and I chose USC.”
South Carolina’s quarterback depth chart includes just 3 scholarship players: Jake Bentley, Michael Scarnecchia and Urich, who signed with the Gamecocks in February. Walk-ons Danny Gordon and Bailey Hart are also on the roster.
As a senior, Douglas passed for 2,112 yards and 28 touchdowns, to go along with 760 yards rushing and 13 scores.
April 20, 2017
South Carolina will add another 2017 prospect when quarterback Darius Douglas joins as a preferred walk-on this summer.
Douglas, a senior at Berkeley High School (Moncks Corner, S.C.), will have a signing ceremony on Thursday at 3 p.m. He recently visited South Carolina for the Garnet & Black spring game.
“(Contact) started over the summer. They host a 7-on-7 every summer and our team went and we won the whole thing. After that, coach (Will) Muschamp and coach (Kurt) Roper liked how I played and they told me they were going to recruit me pretty hard and all that,” Douglas said.
South Carolina already had its 2017 quarterback in place with 3-star recruit Jay Urich committed, but Douglas remained in touch with Roper.
“Coach Roper and I, we became pretty close,” Douglas said. “He told me that if I ever needed any help, he would contact coaches, to help me get recruited, because I was a really good player and he didn’t want me to be one of those guys that wasn’t going anywhere. I just liked that about Coach Roper the whole time, because we became really close.”
Douglas, a 6-foot-1, 185-pound prospect, played in the Shrine Bowl in December, but his recruitment never really took off like he had hoped. South Carolina State, Presbyterian College and North Carolina A&T expressed interest but didn’t offer.
Coastal Carolina also was in the mix with South Carolina.
“My grandma, mom and (Berkeley coach Randy Robinson), they helped me a whole lot,” Douglas said. “We sat down and had a talk. We discussed it and they told me to do whatever my heart told me to do and I chose USC.”
South Carolina’s quarterback depth chart includes just 3 scholarship players: Jake Bentley, Michael Scarnecchia and Urich, who signed with the Gamecocks in February. Walk-ons Danny Gordon and Bailey Hart are also on the roster.
As a senior, Douglas passed for 2,112 yards and 28 touchdowns, to go along with 760 yards rushing and 13 scores.