Steve Spurrier headlines 2026 South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame Class
The Head Ball Coach is heading to another hall of fame.
Former Gamecocks football coach Steve Spurrier will be a part of the South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame’s 2026 class. This is the athletic hall of fame for the entire Palmetto State, not the University of South Carolina’s Athletic Hall of Fame, which has yet to induct the Gamecocks’ winningest football coach.
Along with Spurrier, the 2026 SCAHOF class includes: former Clemson women’s basketball coach Jim Davis, Clemson pitcher Brian Barnes, retired Clemson sports information Director Tim Bourret; South Carolina State defensive back Dwayne Harper; Greenwood native and former Appalachian State star QB Armanti Edwards; Anderson native and Georgia basketball legend Saudia Roundtree; Coastal Carolina and Olympic thrower Amber Campbell; longtime high school track coach Bob Jenkins; and Andrew Provence, who played defensive line for the Gamecocks from 1980-82 and racked up over 400 tackles.
The induction will take place at a banquet on Monday, May 18 inside the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center.
For Spurrier, it will be yet another hall of fame he’s a part of.
The College Football Hall of Fame inducted him as both a player (Class of 1986) and a coach (2017). After winning the Heisman Trophy for the Florida Gators in 1966, the school put Spurrier in their hall of fame two years later. The state of Florida’s athletic hall of fame would follow suit and induct him in 1970.
And now, Spurrier will become the fifth former Gamecock football coach to be inducted into S.C. Athletic Hall of Fame, joining Billy Laval (USC coach from 1928-34), Rex Enright (1938-55), Jim Carlen (1975-81) and Joe Morrison (1983-88).
Spurrier took over South Carolina in 2005 and took the Gamecocks’ football program to heights it had never reached, highlighted by the program’s best four-year span. From 2010-13, South Carolina football went 42-11, finishing as an AP Top-10 team in the latter three seasons.
Despite abruptly retiring late in the 2015 season, his 86-49 record leading the Gamecocks is, by far, the best mark of any USC coach. Enright, who led the Gamecocks during World War II, has the second-most victories with 64.
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Barnes, a lefty pitcher, set the ACC career record for strikeouts while pitching for Clemson from 1986-89. His 513 strikeouts still rank fourth in ACC history, and he was a first team All American selection as a senior in 1989. Barnes went on to play five years of pro baseball with the MLB’s Expos, Indians and Dodgers.
Davis won a school record 355 games as Clemson’s women’s basketball coach and held the position for 18 seasons (1987-2004). His teams made 14 NCAA Tournament appearances in 18 years and reached four Sweet Sixteens and an Elite Eight.
Bourret worked 40 years in Clemson’s sports information office and was the primary contact for the football program. He’s won various industry awards for his work promoting the Tigers and assisting the media. Bourret continues to work for the school in a part-time capacity as a basketball and football radio color analyst.
The State’s Chapel Fowler contributed reporting.
This story was originally published January 20, 2026 at 3:46 PM.
