It was the type of news that shook the entire college football community. In late August, a routine morning drive on a South Carolina road turned into a nightmare when a violent head-on collision took the life of one person and left another fighting for life. The survivor had been rushed into the trauma intensive care unit at Prisma Health Richland, underwent several surgeries, and weeks of agonizing recuperation. It wasn’t until much later that the college football community discovered that the man in that hospital bed was Travian Robertson , the defensive line coach of the Gamecocks.
The life of the SC assistant coach and his family was forever changed in late August after the horrific accident. Robertson spent ten days in the trauma intensive care unit after the crash. He then spent