Tight Ends Coach: University of South Carolina
Bobby Bentley is in his fifth season at Carolina, having joined Will Muschamp’s coaching staff on Dec. 8, 2015. He will coach the tight ends for a second-straight season in 2020 after working as the running backs coach in his first three seasons (2016-18) with the Gamecocks.
In 2016, his first season in Columbia, Bentley developed a pair of freshmen running backs in Rico Dowdle and A.J. Turner into the squad’s top two rushers. In fact, 78 percent of the rushing yards were by freshmen, with Dowdle and Turner combining for over 1,200 yards. Bentley’s second and third seasons proved to be a case of running back by committee. The quartet of Rico Dowdle, A.J. Turner, Ty’Son Williams and Mon Denson, all had strong moments during both their sophomore (2017) and junior (2018) campaigns.
Bentley also mentored his son, Jake, in the 2018 Outback Bowl win over Michigan following the dismissal of quarterbacks coach Kurt Roper. In 2018, the Gamecocks produced six individual 100-yard rushing games, including Deshaun Fenwick’s 112-yard performance against Chattanooga, the first freshman to rush for 100 yards in his debut since 1999.
