soccermaniac, the last time I looked you can't get any more rural than Williston-Elko, Blackville-Hilda, or Buford (those teams all played in the 1A state championships recently).
Maybe you should take off your garnet colored glasses and recognize that Coach Berson has simply overlooked top S.C. talent recently in lieu of players from Illinois, New Mexico, New York, and Utah and those players aren't involved with Gamecock soccer anymore (all left before completing their eligibility).
So be it for Coach Berson and USC, because he has a responsibility as the head coach to win games for the University of South Carolina regardless of where the players are from. However, I believe if he would have recognized (or at least the USC staff) that players such as Hunter Gilstrap (Lexington), Nick Rivera (TL Hanna), Rob Smith (JL Mann), John Cooper (Riverside), Michael Conway (Wando), Jonathan Delap (Riverside), Jay Bracknell (Greenville), John Robert Foster (TL Hanna), Adam Walker (Bishop England), Erik Forbes (Seneca), Troy Lesesne (Brookland-Cayce), Joseph Mosser (Dreher), Jabari Seabrook (Brookland-Cayce), Nick Hansell (Ridge View), Turner Walters (James Island), Randy Owen (Irmo), Zack Moorer (South Aiken), Sam Moore (Porter-Gaud), Tim Mittmann (Dorman), Jay Orders (Greenville), Michael Gonzales (James Island), RP Benik (Myrtle Beach), Howard Ash (James Island), Ben Hollingsworth (Bishop England), Lionel Boisvert (Sumter), Cody Perrot (Ridge View), Josh Pavlischek (Pinewood Prep), Jeff Haigler (Dutch Fork), Eddie Naugle (Summerville), Ian O'Shea (James Island), Montae Seabrook (Wando), and Wayne Osborne (Wando) could play D1 soccer and contribute in some fashion for little USC scholarship money at all.
Just don't neglect the state kids and think that by jumping overseas or across the U.S. is the way to solve a problem that's existed in USC men's soccer for a long time.
