South Carolina promotes two within recruiting department
The addition of Darren Uscher as director of player personnel is not the only change to the South Carolina football recruiting department.
Shane Beamer and the Gamecocks have promoted two long-time recruiting staffers within the department to new positions with Sam Serbay becoming the new director of recruiting for offense and Brandon Middleton the new director of recruiting for defense. The new titles are confirmed on the school’s official website.
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Serbay joined Beamer’s staff in July of 2021 and has primarily assisted Lonnie Teasley and Greg Adkins with the Gamecocks’ offensive line recruiting during that stretch.
Middleton joined the staff as a player personnel assistant in June of 2019, when he cut and evaluated high school film, evaluated opponent film for advanced scouting reports, and assisted with on-campus and gameday recruiting duties.
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According to his bio on GamecocksOnline, Serbay got his start as an assistant coach at James Monroe High School in Virginia from 2009-14 while attending VCU.
He worked as a defensive and special teams quality control coach at Towson University in 2015. After one year as an external scout for the Cleveland Browns in 2016, Serbay spent 2017 as an offensive quality control coach and assistant Director of Football Operations at the University of Richmond. In 2018, he served as the assistant DFO at William & Mary.
According to Middleton’s bio, he began his career as a player personnel intern with the Charlotte 49ers while finishing his bachelor of business administration degree with an emphasis in sports marketing from UNCC in 2018 before joining the Gamecocks program in 2019.
