Shane Beamer offers his recruiting pitch for South Carolina
12/07/2020 GCF STAFF/ HF
New head coach of South Carolina Shane Beamer is familiar with the recruiting landscape at South Carolina having been on the staff there under Steve Spurrier and help the Ole ball coach to recruit great talent that lead to a few 11 win seasons. Beamer also kept that recruiting region when he went on to other schools like Georgia and Oklahoma and recruited several of the players on the current Gamecocks roster.
At his introductory press conference on today, Beamer explained his recruiting pitch. He compared being at Oklahoma, which produces a relative few Power 5 prospects, to the Palmetto State, and the surrounding recruiting footprint.
Beamer said the following. Because of that, we had to recruit nationally at Oklahoma, so I was able to develop ties really anywhere throughout the country,. It never stopped here in this area. We’re always going to start here in South Carolina. We saw the foundation was laid here 10 years ago with great players from this state.”
Beamer also said there are so many great players within a three to four-hour radius of Columbia. Beamer pointed this out.“There’s absolutely no reason why a guy would not want to come play football here at the University of South Carolina,. “If you’re a guy in this state, if you’re a young man in this state, understand that you can accomplish all of your goals on and off the field right here in Columbia. You don’t have to go anywhere else to do that.”
Beamer then went back in recruiting Alshon Jeffery, Marcus Lattimore, Stephon Gilmore, and Devonte Holloman, who all were in-state players during the Spurrier years. Beamer finished with. "That hasn’t changed and if anything it’s only increased that opportunity and the possibility to do that because of what’s been built around here and the way this program’s been advanced”.
12/07/2020 GCF STAFF/ HF
New head coach of South Carolina Shane Beamer is familiar with the recruiting landscape at South Carolina having been on the staff there under Steve Spurrier and help the Ole ball coach to recruit great talent that lead to a few 11 win seasons. Beamer also kept that recruiting region when he went on to other schools like Georgia and Oklahoma and recruited several of the players on the current Gamecocks roster.
At his introductory press conference on today, Beamer explained his recruiting pitch. He compared being at Oklahoma, which produces a relative few Power 5 prospects, to the Palmetto State, and the surrounding recruiting footprint.
Beamer said the following. Because of that, we had to recruit nationally at Oklahoma, so I was able to develop ties really anywhere throughout the country,. It never stopped here in this area. We’re always going to start here in South Carolina. We saw the foundation was laid here 10 years ago with great players from this state.”
Beamer also said there are so many great players within a three to four-hour radius of Columbia. Beamer pointed this out.“There’s absolutely no reason why a guy would not want to come play football here at the University of South Carolina,. “If you’re a guy in this state, if you’re a young man in this state, understand that you can accomplish all of your goals on and off the field right here in Columbia. You don’t have to go anywhere else to do that.”
Beamer then went back in recruiting Alshon Jeffery, Marcus Lattimore, Stephon Gilmore, and Devonte Holloman, who all were in-state players during the Spurrier years. Beamer finished with. "That hasn’t changed and if anything it’s only increased that opportunity and the possibility to do that because of what’s been built around here and the way this program’s been advanced”.