South Carolina football coach Will Muschamp says changes are coming. He didn’t say what, didn’t say where, and then refused to talk about them. But perhaps they’ll be noticed in the coming days.

Or maybe not.

If there are changes, they will presumably happen on the offensive side of the football where the Gamecocks haven’t scored a touchdown in the last two games, and haven’t put up more than 27 points against an FBS opponent.

But then, Muschamp goes on to tout last year’s accomplishment of current offensive coordinator Bryan McClendon. Maybe it’s a pat on the back before McClendon’s way out the door. Or maybe Muschamp has other changes in mind.

He says he has changes coming, though.

“We have to make some changes moving forward,” Muschamp said during his opening statement in his press conference after a 38-3 loss to Clemson. “I’m not addressing anything, as far as that’s concerned, so don’t ask.”

South Carolina finished the season averaging less than 20 points per game this season against Southeastern Conference opponents, which is ninth in the league with on team, Tennessee, still having the opportunity to move above the Gamecocks (4-8) in the statistical ranking.

The Gamecocks were 10th in touchdowns scored and ninth in total offense against conference competition.

The last five and a half games have been brutal for the Gamecocks offensively. South Carolina didn’t score in the second half in a 41-21 loss to Tennessee. And in the only win over the last four games, the Gamecocks scored 24 points and put up 440 yards against Vanderbilt. The Commodores give up 37 points and 487.3 yards per game against SEC teams, on average.

“We’re struggling in a lot of areas,” Muschamp said. “I don’t have enough fingers to put in the dike right now. Confidence is a major issue. We’re having a hard time in a lot of areas.”

Muschamp says that there isn’t “one person to blame” and that they need to be more productive offensively across the board.

“If you give one reason, it’s an excuse, and that’s kind of the way it is nowadays,” Muschamp said. “That’s the bottom line. I’m tired of talking about it.”

McClendon would seem like the obvious scapegoat for the problems offensively this season, but there’s more to it than that. As the offensive coordinator, though, he’s largely responsible for the results on that side of the football.

“No one was bitching last year when we averaged 425 yards, averaged over 30 points per game,” Muschamp said. “We’ve struggled this year. Let’s call it like it is. There’s a lot of different areas that are at fault. It needs to get fixed, and that’s what I’m going to do.”

McClendon, in his first year as a play-caller, had the Gamecocks putting up 440.2 yards and 32.6 points per game going into the Belk Bowl last year. Those numbers were up from 337.1 yards and 24.2 points per game the year before.

The Gamecocks took a big step back this year averaging 371.9 yards and 22.4 points per game.

“It’s extremely frustrating. Last year was more what it needed to be,” Muschamp said. “We averaged over 30 points, which has only happened five times in the last 15 years. Averaged over 400 yards, only three times in 15 years. Had probably the greatest play-caller in college football history, Steve Spurrier, in those 15 years.

“Right or wrong? Agree or disagree? We had a great year, and that’s more of what we need to be. We didn’t manifest ourselves to that. I can list some issues probably attributing to that, but that’s called excuses, and I’m not going to make excuses. Bottom line, is we need to be more productive and get better than we were.”

Changes are coming, Muschamp says. Now it’s time to see when, and how noticeable those changes are.