South Carolina's newest coaches have been at a lot of schools. What do they do with their old gear?

South Carolina officially filled its coaching vacancies this week and officially introduced its three newest assistant coaches on Friday morning. Kendal Briles will be the offensive coordinator, Stan Drayton will coach the running backs, and Randy Clements will coach the offensive line.

One thing those three coaches have in common is that they’ve made many stops throughout their careers. Another thing they all can relate to is that they’ve compiled a lot of team-affiliated gear along the way.

In total, they’ve combined to coach at 28 different colleges, with Drayton also having two separate NFL coaching stints and Clements coaching at Stephenville (TX) High School from 1990-2002.

Drayton, who’s coached the longest of the three since 1993, has been with 17 teams throughout his 30-plus-year career. As one can imagine, that means he’s got a lot of t-shirts, sweatshirts, shorts, pants, and other items from his time in the industry.

So what do Drayton and the other new coaches do with all that gear they’ve accumulated?

“I think my daughter’s gonna take all the Penn State stuff,” said Drayton, who worked as Penn State’s running backs coach in 2025. “A lot of my family members are, I don’t know, fair-weather fans, because you see them wearing everything. They’re wearing an Ohio State shirt to a Penn State shirt. They don’t care. It’s free gear. So my family will probably get it. Yeah, that’s pretty much it.”

Briles, meanwhile, hasn’t been at nearly as many schools as Drayton or Clements. He got into coaching in 2008 when he joined his father, Art Briles, at Baylor as an inside receivers coach and offensive recruiting coordinator. He coached in Waco until 2016.

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Since then, he’s been at a lot more schools, including one-year stops at Florida Atlantic, Houston, and Florida State, before spending three years each at Arkansas and TCU.

Typically, what Briles has done is give the gear to homeless people in need with his family’s help.

“We’ll put all of our gear in the car, and we’ll go out, especially during the winter, because a lot of times that’s when these moves are made, and go out and pass out the homeless here,” Briles said. “I know in Tallahassee, there were a lot of people who were on the corner who probably weren’t getting a whole lot of money because they were dressed in really nice gear. But we usually do that, and then if I have close friends or relatives who would like to still have it, then we’ll pass it on.”

Clements has been along for the ride with Briles at multiple schools. They’ve been together at Baylor, Houston, Florida State, TCU, and now South Carolina. So they likely already have had a lot of the same gear before connecting again in Columbia.

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Clements also recently spent two seasons at North Carolina as the Tar Heels’ offensive line coach from 2023-24. That’s noteworthy because UNC is a Jordan Brand school, which is where its namesake, Michael Jordan, went to play college basketball in the early 1980s. So because of that, Clements now has quite the shoe collection from his time in Chapel Hill.

“I did come home from UNC with a bunch of shoes, those player-exclusive shoes,” Clements said. “I might sell a couple of those. I haven’t decided what to do with them yet. Probably won’t wear them. I’ve had a few logos over time.”

Otherwise, Clements keeps some of the gear he gets at his lake house and gives the rest of it away. Oftentimes, he’ll have players asking him for different items, which he’ll give to them.

He’s now looking forward to wearing the Gamecock logo, which he considers to be “numero uno” amongst the many he’s donned.

“I can’t wait to get home and give my dad a golf cap,” Clements said. “He’d be excited about that for sure.”

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