ORANGEBURG, South Carolina -- The routine was the same most days this June and July. James Robinson pulled his car into the parking lot at Goose Creek’s Sedgefield Middle School and put it in neutral.
One of the most difficult workouts in college football began as S.C. State’s senior defensive end stepped outside into the steamy heat.
Robinson pushed the car for 40 yards. He pulled the thing back over the asphalt with ropes. Sometimes fellow Goose Creek High School graduates stopped by to join in, or watch.
“I pushed myself to my limits,” said Robinson, who is 6-4, 230. “Pushing the car uphill, bear crawling with the car. I just went hard. It was rigorous.”
Desperate times call for creative preseason measures. A heavily slashed S.C. State budget finally was approved June 30 after months of cost-cutting following a February vote in which a Statehouse subcommittee voted to close South Carolina’s only state-funded historically black university. S.C. State’s summer football program, allowing players to live on campus and workout, was among the casualties.
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