For South Carolina, if Shane Beamer is the guy, what will that mean for Mike Bobo?
12/02/2020
If Shane Beamer is, in fact, the leader of the pack, like many first-year coaches, there is a good chance he will look to retain at least one member of the Will Muschamp coaching staff. And since Beamer does not have head coaching experience, it might be good advice — though extremely rare and almost unheard of — to keep offensive coordinator and interim coach Mike Bobo.
First, a bit about Beamer, the presumptive favorite:
Even though he’s 43, Beamer has coached multiple positions at several schools in the SEC, and in other leagues like the ACC and Big 12. Beamer played at Virginia Tech in the late 1990s under his father, Frank. Along with his father, the coaches who hired him before Lincoln Riley include Sylvester Croom, Steve Spurrier and Kirby Smart.
Beamer has spent the past 3 seasons at Oklahoma. Riley hired Beamer from Georgia, where he was special teams coordinator and tight ends coach for 2 seasons under Smart. Beamer was hired to be assistant head coach for offense and to coach the team’s tight ends and H-backs.
Before Georgia, Beamer was the associate head coach in charge of running backs at Virginia Tech from 2011-15. At the end of the 2014 season, he was the acting head coach at Tech for the Military Bowl while his father watched from the press box following throat surgery.
He was the cornerbacks coach at South Carolina from 2007-08, then served as its linebackers coach/special teams coordinator from 2009-10.
At South Carolina, Beamer coordinated the special teams under Spurrier and coached outside linebackers, and in his final 2 years was recruiting coordinator. He was nominated for the 2009 Broyles Award, which goes to the assistant coach of the year. (READ FULL ARTICLE FROM SDS)
12/02/2020
If Shane Beamer is, in fact, the leader of the pack, like many first-year coaches, there is a good chance he will look to retain at least one member of the Will Muschamp coaching staff. And since Beamer does not have head coaching experience, it might be good advice — though extremely rare and almost unheard of — to keep offensive coordinator and interim coach Mike Bobo.
First, a bit about Beamer, the presumptive favorite:
Even though he’s 43, Beamer has coached multiple positions at several schools in the SEC, and in other leagues like the ACC and Big 12. Beamer played at Virginia Tech in the late 1990s under his father, Frank. Along with his father, the coaches who hired him before Lincoln Riley include Sylvester Croom, Steve Spurrier and Kirby Smart.
Beamer has spent the past 3 seasons at Oklahoma. Riley hired Beamer from Georgia, where he was special teams coordinator and tight ends coach for 2 seasons under Smart. Beamer was hired to be assistant head coach for offense and to coach the team’s tight ends and H-backs.
Before Georgia, Beamer was the associate head coach in charge of running backs at Virginia Tech from 2011-15. At the end of the 2014 season, he was the acting head coach at Tech for the Military Bowl while his father watched from the press box following throat surgery.
He was the cornerbacks coach at South Carolina from 2007-08, then served as its linebackers coach/special teams coordinator from 2009-10.
At South Carolina, Beamer coordinated the special teams under Spurrier and coached outside linebackers, and in his final 2 years was recruiting coordinator. He was nominated for the 2009 Broyles Award, which goes to the assistant coach of the year. (READ FULL ARTICLE FROM SDS)