Four-star QB Dante Reno kicks off Gamecocks' 2024 class with commitment to South Carolina

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Wes Mitchell

After an impressive June for South Carolina football’s 2023 class, the Gamecocks are now on the board for 2024 too — and it’s a big one.

Fiskdale (Mass.) The Loomis Chaffee four-star quarterback Dante Reno, who hasn’t hidden the fact that he was a strong South Carolina lean, kicked off the class with his commitment to the Gamecocks via an announcement on CBS Sports HQ Saturday.

“They’re just good people and they treat me really well, me and my family,” Reno told Gamecock Central in April. “We all felt comfortable with the staff, the players. My family walked into the facility, the first time we were there, the whole staff greeted me, the second time, they did the same thing. So nothing really changes on their part, the way that they react and the way that they treat me and my family.”

Reno, who was recruited by offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Marcus Satterfield, chooses South Carolina over offers from Virginia, Kentucky, Ole Miss, N.C. State, Wisconsin, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, Purdue, Iowa, West Virginia, and Louisville, among others.

The On3 Consensus – a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies – ranks Reno as the No. 17 QB, No. 229 overall prospect and No. 2 state of Connecticut prospect in the 2024 class.

The 6-foot-2, 205-pound Under Armour All-American becomes the face of the recruiting cycle for South Carolina and will now turn his attention to recruiting others to join him, something he’s actually already been doing.

Reno got a head start on that last month, taking two unofficial visits to South Carolina — his third and fourth total visits to campus — to spend time with fellow 2024 targets like four-stars WR Mazeo Bennett, OL Kam Pringle and OL Josiah Thompson.

Reno spent three days in Columbia during the second week of June, hanging out with all three during a Shane Beamer Camp day, and then returned on June 25 to hang around Bennett and Pringle again.

Reno said in that same interview that the message from Shane Beamer and Co. has been that they can “develop me as a person as a player,” he said. “I think that they can do that with the resources that they have. The director of player personnel, nutrition and all that stuff on their weight training. Obviously, Coach Satterfield calling the play plays but not just that, not just on the football field, but also off the football field.”

Reno threw for 2,507 yards and 27 touchdowns with a 66 percent completion percentage as a sophomore last season.

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