South Carolina offers South Florence's LaNorris Sellers

Prolific QB has verbally committed to Syracuse, but is this a game-changer?
South Carolina offers South Florence's LaNorris Sellers
South Carolina offers South Florence's LaNorris Sellers /

South Florence star quarterback LaNorris Sellers has received an offer from South Carolina hours after his coach spoke about the lack of interest in the Palmetto State.

Sellers, a 6-foot-3, 215-pound senior, tweeted early Saturday afternoon that he had an offer from the Gamecocks. The Shrine Bowl-bound quarterback gave Syracuse a verbal commitment in March but this latest development could alter the picture. Players can and do decommit.

The offer comes on the heels of another superb game from the dual-threat quarterback. Sellers completed 14 of 19 passes for 247 yards and 3 touchdowns in the undefeated Bruins’ 46-0 romp over North Myrtle Beach. He also ran 9 times for 107 yards and a touchdown.

After the game, South Florence coach Drew Marlowe expressed disbelief that Sellers only had one offer - from Coastal Carolina - in South Carolina.

That all changed overnight.

Sellers has thrown for 1,894 yards and 26 touchdowns against just 2 interceptions. On the ground, he has 778 yards and 12 touchdowns.

South Florence is the No. 1-ranked AAAA team in South Carolina.

Sellers also has Power 5 offers from Virginia, Virginia Tech and Washington State. Other FBS offers are from Appalachian State and George State.

South Carolina’s starting quarterback, Spencer Rattler, is a red-shirt junior. His backup, former Myrtle Beach star Luke Doty, is a junior.


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Mike Duprez
MIKE DUPREZ

Mike Duprez became a freelance sports journalist for Scorebooklive.com several months after retiring from the newspaper business. A native of Oakland, California, Duprez moved around as a child due to his father’s service in the United States Marine Corps. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981. Duprez, who lives in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, had 30 years of experience in newspapers as well as other endeavors before retiring at the end of 2021. He covers stories in both North Carolina and South Carolina for Scorebooklive.com.