Great interview over at WeAreSC.com.  Here are some parts that I found interesting:

And to do that, I think the schedule is
important. And we’re opening our season next year in our non-conference
with games at South Carolina in a return game, with Memphis on a
neutral floor in the Jimmy Valvano Classic in New York, which will be a
nationally televised game. We come back home and we have Kansas,
Oklahoma and it looks like Florida, who we just added. Then we have a
made-for-TV tournament in Anaheim where we’re going to be playing the
featured game at 8:00 every night for three straight nights against a
team from the Big-10, the Big East, SEC and Big-12. So next season,
we’ve taken on more and may arguably have the best schedule in the
country, with a team that may be the youngest in the country.

So SC will play Oklahoma, Kansas, and possibly Florida at the Galen Center next year.  What a fantastic OOC schedule. 

He came in here on his visit, you’ll love this. I mean, I love
everything about him, from a coach’s standpoint. He comes in here on
his visit and we go to a dinner. He’s trying to be socially interactive
with his student host, I forget who. It may have been Gabe and Nick out
with us that night. But he’s trying to carry on conversation. He’s a
little socially awkward because he’s spent his whole life in a gym, you
know? He comes over to me after the meal and he says, coach do you have
Rob’s number? Rob’s my manager. I said, “Yeah I got it.” He asked for
it and I said yeah. So Gabe and Nick wanted to take him out on the town
after the meal, but he asked them to take him back to campus. He meets
up with Rob and goes up and shoots in the gym from midnight until 3:00
in the morning on his official visit. I love that stuff. I love it.
I’ve never been around a guy like that.

Any doubt that this kid wants it badly? 

And then the sleeper of the whole class is a
kid from Louisiana, by the name of Marcus Simmons, who may be our
finest athlete and may be our hardest playing player and may be our
best defender, may be the best perimeter rebounder and a guy who gives
us other options.

Simmons’ is indeed the sleeper of the ’07 class.  I’ve only heard good things about this kid and I’m looking forward to seeing him lock down defensively against our opponents.  Can’t wait till next season starts.