Scott Davis has followed South Carolina athletics for over 40 years and provides commentary from a fan perspective. __He writes a weekly newsletter year\-round \(sign up here)__ and a column during football season that’s published each Monday on [GamecockCentral\.com](https://www.on3.com/teams/south-carolina-gamecocks/)\. This wasn’t 2020. This wasn’t one of those doomed seasons like we endured back in the long, lonely pandemic days, when we watched the last gasps of the Will Muschamp Era playing out in front of us every Saturday. No, hope hadn’t yet been killed off, hadn’t been completely van…